Norman Coates
Norman’s career has spanned over thirty five years, producing designs for West End and repertory theatre in the UK and abroad.
Norman started his career as Resident Designer for The Almost Free Theatre, and was Head of Design at the Palace Theatre, Watford, under the Artistic Directorship of Lou Stein.
Recent credits include: On McQuillan's Hill and A Lesson From Aloes, (Finborough Theatre); A Princess Undone, (Arts Theatre, Cambridge, and tour); The Lovers of Viorne (Frontier Productions); 84 Charing Cross Road, (Salisbury Playhouse and The Arts Theatre, Cambridge); Don’t Look Now, Boeing Boeing, Our Man In Havana, Deathtrap, As You Like It, The Hound of the Baskervilles; Peter Pan, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Mysterie of Maria Marten, Sense and Sensibility, A Murder Has Been Arranged and How The Other Half Loves, (Queens Theatre Hornchurch); Wife After Death, (Churchill Theatre and tour); Romantic Comedy, (ATG national tour); Mrs Pat, (Theatre Royal, York); Billy Liar, (ATG tour); The Old Ladies, (TEG Productions tour); The Real Inspector Hound and Black Comedy, (Perth Theatre); Othello, Proof, 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, and many others, (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Vanity Fair and Shooting Star, (Chester); The Life and Death of a Buffalo Soldier, (Bristol Old Vic); Lloyd George Knew My Father and Goodbye, Mr Chips, and many others, (Watermill Theatre, Newbury).
Norman mentors design students and recent productions include Present Laughter (Central School of Speech and Drama); The Servant of Two Masters, Les Femmes Savantes, The Good Woman of Szechuan, among others (RADA).
West End credits include: The Dice House and Proof, (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) and From a Jack to a King, (Ambassador's Theatre).
International credits include: 3 designs for The Market Theatre, Johannesburg, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (The Baxter Theatre, Cape Town); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Relatively Speaking and A Bedfull 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.
Norman adapted Goodbye, Mr Chips for a UK tour, and most recently adapted Séance on a Wet Afternoon for the stage. His debut novel Beard was published in 2014.
Television credits include: Once Upon a Time in the North, a six part comedy series for the BBC, starring Bernard Hill.
Norman’s career has spanned over thirty five years, producing designs for West End and repertory theatre in the UK and abroad.
Norman started his career as Resident Designer for The Almost Free Theatre, and was Head of Design at the Palace Theatre, Watford, under the Artistic Directorship of Lou Stein.
Recent credits include: On McQuillan's Hill and A Lesson From Aloes, (Finborough Theatre); A Princess Undone, (Arts Theatre, Cambridge, and tour); The Lovers of Viorne (Frontier Productions); 84 Charing Cross Road, (Salisbury Playhouse and The Arts Theatre, Cambridge); Don’t Look Now, Boeing Boeing, Our Man In Havana, Deathtrap, As You Like It, The Hound of the Baskervilles; Peter Pan, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Mysterie of Maria Marten, Sense and Sensibility, A Murder Has Been Arranged and How The Other Half Loves, (Queens Theatre Hornchurch); Wife After Death, (Churchill Theatre and tour); Romantic Comedy, (ATG national tour); Mrs Pat, (Theatre Royal, York); Billy Liar, (ATG tour); The Old Ladies, (TEG Productions tour); The Real Inspector Hound and Black Comedy, (Perth Theatre); Othello, Proof, 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, and many others, (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Vanity Fair and Shooting Star, (Chester); The Life and Death of a Buffalo Soldier, (Bristol Old Vic); Lloyd George Knew My Father and Goodbye, Mr Chips, and many others, (Watermill Theatre, Newbury).
Norman mentors design students and recent productions include Present Laughter (Central School of Speech and Drama); The Servant of Two Masters, Les Femmes Savantes, The Good Woman of Szechuan, among others (RADA).
West End credits include: The Dice House and Proof, (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) and From a Jack to a King, (Ambassador's Theatre).
International credits include: 3 designs for The Market Theatre, Johannesburg, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (The Baxter Theatre, Cape Town); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Relatively Speaking and A Bedfull 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.
Norman adapted Goodbye, Mr Chips for a UK tour, and most recently adapted Séance on a Wet Afternoon for the stage. His debut novel Beard was published in 2014.
Television credits include: Once Upon a Time in the North, a six part comedy series for the BBC, starring Bernard Hill.