Writers Salon | Dynamic Dialogue with Kaite O’Reilly

Come and join Connect through Creativity's CRIPtic x Spread the Word Salon with Kaite O'Reilly and sign up for the Salon open mic if you'd like to share your work.

Whether you are new to writing or are a seasoned and published poet, gain inspiration and start a new ongoing adventure in creativity.

About the workshop

Often our characters’ dialogue is flat, indistinct, or similar to our own spoken voice in pattern, vocabulary and viewpoint. This workshop challenges this through a series of technical exercises, creating variety in pace, tone, and register – exploring how character and viewpoint is revealed through the choice of words we give our characters.

Read your work at the sharing spot

There are five sharing spot slots available at the Salon and if you'd like to share your work please complete the following form by Friday 28 November: https://forms.gle/oyvLotv1fnxcoLzN6

You'll be asked to provide your contact details and a short bio and the reading you will be doing which should be no longer than 5 minutes. This is so we can send the work to our BSL interpreters in advance of the session. You can submit these in written English, video or audio file format.

About Kaite

Kaite is an award-winning dramaturg, playwright, radio, film and TV scriptwriter. Her debut feature film screenplay, The Almond and the Seahorse, starring Rebel Wilson, won the Special Jury’s Prize (‘Hitchcock’) at Dinard Film Festival. Her awards for writing include: winner of Ted Hughes Award, Peggy Ramsay Award, Theatre-Wales Award, Manchester Theatre Prize; she has been a two-time finalist in the James Tait Black Prize for Innovation in Drama. She is a Fellow of Royal Society of Literature.

She was associate dramaturg for National Theatre Wales 2022-24, and production dramaturg and narrative director for Rambert’s Peaky Blinder’s dance performance The Redemption of Thomas Shelby.

Kaite’s pioneering plays for disabled and Deaf actors are produced internationally, most recently in Singapore, China and USA. Her acclaimed collections, Atypical Plays for Atypical Actors and The ‘d’ Monologues are published by Bloomsbury/Oberon. She recently received an Unlimited International commission to write and direct a new production in Malaysia in 2026.

In 2024 she received a 4Nations International Award and British Council Connections through Culture bursary to develop performance dramaturgy in Deaf and disabled-led work in Aotearoa New Zealand, working with Equal Voices Arts and Arts Access Aotearoa.

Access Information

• Auto-captions
• Self Descriptions
• BSL Interpretation
• Comfort Breaks

About CRIPtic Arts

CRIPtic Arts exists to ignite disabled excellence across the arts. We provide active disabled leadership which advances world-class arts work with disabled creatives. From high-quality community activities to showcasing breakthrough performers; we’re blazing a revolution in accessibility.

About Spread the Word

Spread the Word is London's literature development agency. We have have a national and international reputation for change-making research and developing programmes for writers that have equity and social justice at their heart.

With thanks to the City Bridge Foundation for supporting the CRIPtic x Spread the Word Salon and Connect through Connectivity.