About Us

About Us

Edgeways is an arts partnership between Chris Salt, applied film and theatre maker/writer and Karen Hayes, poet/devising practitioner. Both artists have a recent history of arts council funded projects as well as a wealth of experience as individual and company based artists involved in socially engaged practice. Chris and Karen have been friends and collaborators for over 30 years.

Chris Salt

Chris' recent relevant artistic work has been as artist in residence for Let’s Go Global, curator for Thank You Theatre, writer for the NTC’s collaborative writing production ‘A Wife or the Gallows’; audio-visual director for Imperial War Museum North, facilitator and documentarist for community arts project Great North Passion (BBC/Cultural Spring) creator/director for BBC's Miracle on the Estate and writer/director of Arts council funded theatre piece, ‘Gemma Climbs Her Mountain’.


In October 2017 Chris was selected for the Royal Court’s inaugural Writers Group (North). His plays ‘Man Hours’ and ‘fell’ were developed with the Royal Court and Northern Stage. ‘fell’ has been further developed for a rural tour in association with ACE and Cumbrian Youth Alliance and toured the Lake District and North West in Spring 2020. 2021 development and recording of ‘ As Time …’

2022  Sisters from Different Mothers – writing/development

2022 online and staged readings of ‘A Moral Play’

2023 ‘fell’ tour

Karen Hayes

Karen's long professional c.v includes Arts council funded Inner Skin in Bristol 2014-15,dementia-specific operas and song cycle for WNO and 3 Choirs festival 2013 and, most recently as community artist for Bristol City Green capital 2015.


She was the Charles Causley writer in residence at Cyprus Well, Cornwall. Her two poetry collections are published by Holland Park Press.


We aim to advance education in the arts and to provide facilities in the interests of social and cultural welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation. We use Drama, Music, other performing arts and the arts generally, for the benefit of those people who do not usually participate in or have access to the arts, including those people on the margins of society.
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