Kaite is an experienced and enthusiastic dramaturg and teacher. She has been involved in many educational projects, working predominantly with young people and adults in over six countries.

She works extensively with writernet and was the dramaturg/tutor for disPlay4, developing four disabled playwrights – Danny Start, Angela McNab, Kerry Hood and Jamie Beddard over an eighteen-month period. The innovative project culminated in a showcase of the playwrights’ work at Soho Theatre in November 2002, in association with Graeae Theatre Company. To read or download the report on disPlay4, please go to www.writernet.org.uk

Kaite is currently working with North West Disability Arts Forum (NWDAF) on Off the Page, a project developing ten performance writers living in the North West. For further information, go to www.nwdaf.co.uk

She has been writer-in-residence at Essex University and UCE, and a lecturer at Glamorgan University, where she still guest-lectures on the MA in Scriptwriting. She currently co-supervises students on the new MA in Playwriting and Script Development at Exeter University’s Drama Department www.exeter.ac.uk/drama

She is also mentor/dramaturg for emerging performance writers at Contact, Manchester and Script, Birmingham and collaborates with North West Playwrights, amongst other partners including the Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy in Kolkata, India.


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