Jacqueline Coats

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Jacqueline Coats
CitizenshipNew Zealand
EducationMTA (2002) from Victoria University of Wellington & Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School
Occupation(s)Director of theatre and opera

Jacqueline Coats is a theatre director based in New Zealand who has worked in both opera and children's theatre, she has worked for various organisations including the New Zealand Festival, New Zealand Opera and Victorian Opera (Melbourne).

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Biography

Coats is educated from the University of Idaho, and in 2002 graduated with a Master of Theatre Arts in Directing from Victoria University of Wellington and Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School. [1] [2] She also has a postgraduate diploma in Arts Education Management from the University of Leeds. [3] She was a singer in the New Zealand Youth Choir, and has been an actor and a singer. [4]

She has been directing NZ Opera's touring Opera in Schools programme since 2015. [5]  

Children's theatre companies she has worked for include Little Dog Barking, the theatre company of the Peter Wilson (who died in 2021), [3] and Capital E National Theatre for Children. [6] A very popular touring production for children by Capital E that Coats directed is Seasons in 2021 first created by Peter Wilson, Laughton Pattrick (who died in 2020) and Jenny Pattrick in 2000 and Coats was one of the performers. [7] This production honoured the memory of Peter Wilson and Laughton Pattrick. [8]

Coats received the Peter Lees-Jeffries Memorial Scholarship from the Dame Malvina Major Foundation in 2018 for professional development [9] and the Pettman DARE Fellowship at Opera North, University of Leeds in 2019. [5]

In 2020 Coats directed a concert at the Whanganui Royal Opera House in her role as Stagecraft Director with the New Zealand Opera School. [10]

In 2021 Coats directed the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's annual Opera in Concert at the Auckland Town Hall. [11]

Awards

1997 - Most Original Production, Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards for Bent by Martin Sherman

2014 - Director of the Year, Dunedin Theatre Awards for This Other Eden. [4] [12]

Credits

Directing credits include:
DateTitleFormProductionCastRef.
2009 The Cunning Little Vixen opera [13]
2014This Other Edentheatreby Anthony Richie and Michelanne Forster for Opera Otago [4]
2014 Noye’s Fludde operaProduced by New Zealand Opera [13]
2016 La Traviata operaCo-directed with Kate Cherry, produced by New Zealand Opera [14]
2016Little Kowhai TreetheatreBy Peter Wilson, produced by Little Dog Barking Theatre Company [15]
2017Songs of the SeatheatreBy Peter Wilson, produced by Capital E [6]
2018 La Bohème operaBy Puccini [14]
2018The Two Gentlemen of VeronatheatreShakespeare, for Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School. [4]
2019 The Barber of Seville operaCapital E Festival [13]
2020Voices Love OperaoperaWritten by Coats from various operas for Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir Catrin Johnsson, Albert Mata'afa, Morag Atchison, Andrew Grenon [4] [16]
2021SeasonstheatreWritten by Peter Wilson, music by Laughton Pattrick, lyrics by Jenny Pattrick, produced by Capital EMia Alonso-Green, Dominic Flanagan, Flora Dryburgh [8]

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  1. ↑ "Opera School Welcomes Jacqueline Coats to Direct Great Opera Moments". Welcome to the New Zealand Opera School. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  2. ↑ Guest, Bill (2010). Transitions : four decades of Toi Whakaari : New Zealand Drama School. Ginny Sullivan, Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School. Wellington [N.Z.]: Victoria University Press. ISBN   978-0-86473-642-0. OCLC   669968400.
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  6. 1 2 "Songs of the Sea » WHIRINAKI WHARE TAONGA". www.expressions.org.nz. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
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  11. ↑ "Stage Director Jacqueline Coats on 'Fidelio'". RNZ . 7 May 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  12. ↑ "This Other Eden". Opera Otago. 10 January 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
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  15. ↑ "Little Kowhai Tree touring early childhood centres and schools". PAYPA - Performing Arts and Young People in Aotearoa. 9 July 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  16. ↑ "Voices Love Opera is a choral concert of operatic proportions". RNZ . 15 October 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
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