George Coates

George Coates (born March 19, 1952) is an American theatre director most notable for his work with George Coates Performance Works (GCPW), which he founded in 1977 in San Francisco, CA. The company produced over 20 multi-media live performances over a span of 25 years, winning a multitude of awards for its international performances,[1] earning critical acclaim in Asia, Europe and South America and gaining North American attention at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival.[2] One of the first to incorporate digital screen projections with performance in live theatre in the early 1990s, at times giving audience members 3-D glasses, Coates' became known as a pioneer of experimental live theatre.[3]

Coates was hired by Steve Jobs in 1988 to create a multimedia production for the unveiling of Jobs' NeXT Computer System[4] and was featured as a minor role for this production in the 2015 film, Steve Jobs, directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin.[5]

In 2000, having obtained the rights to Valerie Solanas' play "Up Your Ass", Coates became the first playwright to premiere Solanas' long lost work in his San Francisco theatre. The production, which toured to New York and was retitled "Up Your A$$" by Coates, was regarded one of the raunchiest and most controversial shows around, with an all-female cast, many of which were dressed in drag.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Nowhere.html". ORIMA inc. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
  2. ↑ Gussow, Mel (October 15, 1983). "STAGE: 'WAY OF HOW,' GEORGE COATES COLLAGE". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
  3. ↑ Breslauer, Jan (January 12, 1992). "ART & TECHNOLOGY : Theater on a Chip : George Coates' 'Invisible Site' mingles performers and 'live' computer images in a symbiotic work that redefines the state of the art". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
  4. ↑ Schwartz, John (October 24, 1988). "Steve Jobs Comes Back". Newsweek. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Steve Jobs (2015)". The New York Times. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
  6. ↑ Coburn, Judith (January 11, 2000). "Solanas Lost and Found". The Village Voice. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
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