Chrys Salt
Agent: Lucy Fawcett
Sheil Land Associates
43 Doughty Street, WC1 2LF
Tel: 0207 405 9351
Chrys Salt is a Member of British Actors Equity and The Director's Guild of Great Britain.
* * * As Artistic Director of Bare Boards… and a passion * * *
The Prisoner’s Pumpkin by Alan McMurtrie (Yvonne Antrobus and Carl Forgione) The Chelsea Centre Theatre (Best New Play Award)
The Witlings by Fanny Burney adapted by Chrys Salt (Annette Badland, Delia Lindsay, Simon Cox) Tristan Bates
The Last Obit by Peter Tinniswood (Angela Pleasence) - The Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival (Fringe First), Southern Scotland tour (in association with Pleasence/Salt Productions)
On the Whole It’s Been Jolly Good by Peter Tinniswood (Leslie Phillips) – The Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival, tour and The Hampstead Theatre, London
Viva La Diva by Chris Ballance (Jean Boht and Ian Angus Wilkie) – The Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival and The Swallow Theatre
Aphrodite Blues by Robert Hamilton (John Pickard, Jacqueline Pearce) New End Theatre (In association with ArtiZan)
The Chicken Show ( Eryl Maynard) – The Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival, The Swallow Theatre. Radio 4 (‘Pick of the week’ and the play audiences most wanted to hear again in 2003). Tour planned.
* * * Directing on Sound * * *
Rupert Brooke. His Life and Work (Douglas Hodge and Mike Read)
The Best of Second World War Poetry ( readers include Martin Jarvis, Lord Dennis Healey, T.P. McKenna, Richard Todd, Spike Milligan and Phil Collins)
Over three dozen audio cassettes of Classic Short Stories ( Sir Derek Jacobi, Edward Fox, Joanna David, Rosalind Ayres, Harriet Walter, Patrick Malahide, Edward Hardwicke and many more)
* * * Recent Books * * *
Here We Go – Women’s Memories of the 1984/85 Miners Strike – CRS National Media Award
College Lives – Pub: London University
 Make Acting Work - Pub Bloomsbury and Methuen.
Third edition. UK and US
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 The Methuen Book of Contemporary Monologues for Men - Pub: Methuen.
UK and US
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 The Methuen Book of Contemporary Monologues for Women - Pub: Methuen.
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 The Methuen Book of Modern Monologues for Men - Pub: Methuen.
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 The Methuen Book of Modern Monologues for Women - Pub: Methuen.
UK and US
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 The Methuen Book of Classical Monologues for Men - Pub: Methuen.
UK and US
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 The Methuen Book of Classical Monologues for Women - Pub: Methuen.
UK and US
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* * * As Playwright * * *
Of Whole Heart Cometh Hope - Age Exchange. Director Pam Schweitzer (Festival Hall, UK tour)
All Our Christmases - Age Exchange/ Director Pam Schweitzer (UK tour)
College Voices - (co-directed with Robert Gordon). Royal Holloway College
Old King Coal - (co-written with Mick Martin) Major Road. Director Graham Devlin. UK tour.
Moths - (adapted from Ouida) Director Janet Whitaker. BBC Radio 4.
A Little Scandal is a Dangerous Thing - Director Janet Whitaker. BBC Radio 4.
* * * Poetry Collections * * *
Inside Out - Pub: Autolycus Press/Thames Publishing 1989
Daffodils At Christmas - Pub: The Galloway Poets Series 1998
In Town Tonight - Pub: Markings 1998 (Solway Festival Poets Anthology)
Collateral Damage - Pub: Markings 2004
Poetry Scotland Duo (with Elspeth Brown) - Pub: Poetry Scotland 2007
Chrys was one of the poets chosen to launch British Telecom's ‘Dial-a-poem’ service.
Recent commissions include a collaboration with composer Katherine Gillam on a song for the Lieder+ Festival (October 2007) and with leading Scottish artist Ethel Walker on a poem for the catalogue of her exhibition at The Thackeray Gallery, London (November 2007).
* * * Grants, Awards, etc * * *
National Media Ward (CRS)
New Writing Bursary (English Arts Council)
Work Development Grant (Scottish Arts Council)
Writer’s Residency (RHBNC London University)
Fringe First (Edinburgh Festival).
Little Malcolm and his Struggle against the Eunuchs
‘This is an intriguing play, and the slow switch of mood from comedy to high drama is skillfully handled…this is a first rate piece of theatre’
On The Road to Jerusalem
The play is finely directed by Chrys Salt, who works wonders on a postage-stamp stage. - Times Chronicle
This is an excellent design team under the direction of Chrys Salt, whose imaginative staging of this highly didactic piece is immaculate. - The Stage
College Lives
‘Chrys Salt has achieved a monumental collage reflecting the changing role of women through the past century..in a production that deserves to travel far beyond these college walls’ - The Stage
Of Whole Heart Cometh Hope
‘Fascinating….its scrupulous attention to detail, and demonstration that history is really made of people not events deserves a far wider audience’ - Times Educational Supplement
Striking Out
‘Two fine documentaries on Radio 4 this week bring strong, articulate voices into nice living rooms….The team responsible for this gutsy programme includes Chrys Salt, whose sympathetic interviews were made easier by her earlier book on the subject’ - The Observer
Inside Out (poetry collection)
‘I heard Chrys Salt read a poem called ‘My love has found a new mirror’ before I read her collection, and in both the hearing and reading I was beguiled and delighted by the clear, unfacile fluency of her writing voice……
‘…..I think her work will become widely known and loved, popular because it speaks out of past forms in a language so finely tuned it appears natural’ - Ambit
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