Simon Coates

Theatre includes: for the National Theatre: Translations, Black Snow, Arcadia, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pygmalion, Murmuring Judges and The Resistibel Rise Of Arturo Ui. For the RSC: Coriolanus, The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Loveplay, Luminosity, The Taming Of The Shrew and The Comedy Of Errors. Other theatre includes: The Hypochondriac (Liverpool Playhouse and national tour); The Real Thing (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Tartuffe (Liverpool Playhouse and the Rose Theatre, Kingston); Life After Scandal, Hand In Hand (Hampstead Theatre); The Constant Wife (Gate Theatre, Dublin and Spoleto Festival); Arcadia (Bristol Old Vic and Birmingham Repertory Theatre); The Miser (Chichester Festival Theatre); As You Like It (Cheek by Jowl, Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and New York Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor); Vassa (Gate Theatre); Sinderby (Mermaid Theatre); You Never Can Tell (Thorndike Theatre); The Importance Of Being Earnest (national tour); Pravda, Melchester, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead and Cabaret (Salisbury Playhouse); An Italian Straw Hat, Tomfoolery, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and _ Anyone Can Whistle_ (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham); Twelth Night (Northcott Theatre, Exeter); Mr Cinders (Theatre Royal York); Dinner On Broadway (Nottingham Playhouse); Bells Are Ringing (Greenwich Theatre); Fiddler On The Roof (Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich).

Television credits include: EastEnders, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, The Bill, Dream Team and A Touch Of Frost.

Film redits include: Beginner’s Luck and I’m Not Going.