NORMAN COATES
Designer
Theatre credits include: Romantic
Comedy, national tour; Rough Music and
Treasure Island, Kings Head; The Servant
of Two Masters, RADA; Othello and
Proof, Birmingham Stage Company; Mrs
Pat, Theatre Royal, York; Cold Hands,
Theatre 503; Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood and
Death and the Maiden, Kings Head Theatre:
Billy Liar, ATG Ltd; The Old
Ladies, TEG Productions; The Real Inspector
Hound and Black Comedy, Perth Theatre; The Real
Thing, Central School; Romeo and Juliet,
The Dice House, Madamoiselle
Colombe, Oleanna and Speed the
Plow, Birmingham Stage Company; Driving Miss
Daisy, Bury St Edmond’s; Picasso at the
Lapin Agile, The Cucumber Man and
Holidays, West Yorkshire Playhouse; Vanity
Fair and Shooting Star, Gateway Theatre,
Chester; The Good Woman of Szechuan, RADA;
Speed the Plow and She Stoops to
Conquer, Birmingham Stage Company; The Life and
Death of a Buffalo Soldier, Bristol Old Vic; Lloyd
George Knew My Father and Goodbye Mr
Chips, Watermill Theatre; Heureux
Stratagem and Les Femmes Savantes,
RADA.
West End credits include: The Dice House, Arts
Theatre; the long running Mr Cinders, Fortune
Theatre; Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave,
The Criterion; Saturday Night at the Palace, Old
Vic; The Importance of Being Earnest, Whitehall
Theatre; From a Jack to a King, Ambassador's
Theatre.
Norman had a long and successful relationship as Head of Design at
the Palace Theatre, Watford, where he designed eighteen productions
under the Artistic Directorship of Lou Stein, including many
pantomimes.
International credits include: The Rise and Fall of Little
Voice, Relatively Speaking and A
Bedful of Foreigners, British Theatre Playhouse,
Singapore; Roxy Music World Tour; Dirty
Linen, New York and Los Angeles; Alexandra
Kollentai, Sydney Festival; The Irish Hebrew
Lesson, Jerusalem Festival; One for One,
Gate Theatre, Dublin; Hobson's Choice, British
Council tour of Pakistan; two seasons of Hearts of
Fire, Proctors Theatre, Schenectady, New York and as
designer for the British American Repertory Theatre Norman designed
the original production of Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet,
Cahoot's Macbeth.
Television credits include: Once Upon a Time in the
North, a six part comedy series for the BBC starring
Bernard Hill.
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