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Callum Coates
For the Lions part -- Spring's Glorie, Gammer Gurton's Needle, Twelfe Night, The Story of Mann, The Olde Wives Tale, The Arraygnment of Paris, Lord Haye's Wedding, May Games, St George & The Dragon, October Plenty and the annual Twelfth Night Revels. Callum also wrote and directed the 15 Minute Gunpowder Plot for Shakespeare's Globe in 2005.
Other Theatre Work includes Henry V (Antic Disposition), Fallen Angels (Salisbury Playhouse), A View From The Bridge (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse), Propaganda Swing (Belgrade Theatre Coventry), The Doctor's Dilemma (Royal National Theatre), the national tour of The Sound of Music, the West End production of The 39 Steps, Paris in Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare's Globe), The Tempest (Antic Disposition), Love & The Gentle Heart (Atlas Productions), Entertaining Morocco (Atlas Productions), King Lear (Shakespeare's Globe Co tour to Tokyo), Hamlet (Norwich Playhouse), España in the Works (ROH Linbury Studio), Intimate Exchanges, Private Lives and Wait Until Dark (Theatre Royal Margate).
For the Original Shakespeare Co - As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Cymbeline, King John, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsommer Nights Dreame, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfe Night.
National tours of Arms and the Man, The Miser, Macbeth, The Thirty Nine Steps, The Moonstone.
TV, film and radio work include Red Dwarf XII, Inside No 9, Mr Selfridge, The Armstrong & Miller Show, The Iranian Orphanage, Much Ado About Something, Unknown Soldier, London:The Greatest City.
Callum is one of the Lions part costume team, with a particular interest in historically correct clothing and regularly gives talks about Elizabethan and Jacobean clothing and spends much of his time researching and learning about original practices. He is also a very experienced Shakespeare workshop leader and has given talks, workshops and lectures in the UK, America, Canada and Morocco.