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,

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and

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Biography

Coats is educated from the

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, and in 2002 graduated with a Master of Theatre Arts in Directing from

Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. The university is well know ...

and Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School. She also has a postgraduate diploma in Arts Education Management from the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

. She was a singer in the

New Zealand Youth Choir The New Zealand Youth Choir is a mixed choir consisting of around 50 singers, auditioned nationally every 3 years from around New Zealand. The choir accepts members aged between 18 and 25 at the time of audition, and places will generally be offe ...

, and has been an actor and a singer. She has been directing NZ Opera's touring ''Opera in Schools'' programme since 2015. Children's theatre companies she has worked for include ''Little Dog Barking'', the theatre company of the Peter Wilson (who died in 2021), and Capital E National Theatre for Children. 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. This production honoured the memory of Peter Wilson and Laughton Pattrick. Coats received the Peter Lees-Jeffries Memorial Scholarship from the

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in 2018 for professional development and the Pettman DARE Fellowship at

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, University of Leeds in 2019. In 2020 Coats directed a concert at the Whanganui Royal Opera House in her role as Stagecraft Director with the New Zealand Opera School. In 2021 Coats directed the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's annual ''Opera in Concert'' at the Auckland Town Hall.

Awards

1997 - Most Original Production,

Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards The Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards were the main theatre awards in New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, from 1992–2014, and have been succeeded by the Wellington Theatre Awards. Established in 1992 and sponsored by law firm Chapman Tripp, ...

for ''Bent'' by

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2014 - Director of the Year, Dunedin Theatre Awards for ''This Other Eden''.

Credits

References

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