About us
Callum Coates
Born and bred in Canterbury, Callum Coates trained at Mountview Theatre School and Riga Academy in Latvia. Whilst at Mountview he became involved with the campaign to save the Rose Playhouse and so, indirectly, with Shakespeare's Globe.
Not long after graduation Callum joined the Original Shakespeare Company (where all the founder members of the Lions part met) performing in The Merchant of Venice and A Midsommer Night's Dreame (Die Globe, Neuss), Twelfe Night and Romeo & Juliet (Jordan), As You Like It, King John and Cymbeline (Shakespeare's Globe). In 1994 Callum was part of the first Shakespeare's Globe Exhibition team and has since worked for the project as a tour guide, researcher, fund raiser, educationalist and actor and was part of the design committee for the Globe's stage.
As a founder member of the Lions part, Callum has been in the annual Twelfth Night play, May Games, October Plenty, Spring's Glorie, George and the Dragon, The Plain Down Right Wooing betweene the Foole and the Ladie; Gammer Gurton's Needle; Twelfe Night or What you Will; The Story of Mann... and all that; A Phoenix Too Frequent; Thor with Angels, The Dark is Light Enough and The Olde Wive's Tale and has devised an enlightening entertainment provisionally called Shakespeare in Context. Callum is also a freelance costume and props maker and researched, designed or made many of the costumes for our shows.
Recent work includes Paris in Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare's Globe), Lord Byron in Bride of Prejudice (Barons Court Theatre), Entertaining Morocco (Theatro Technis), Governor Fernese in The Jew of Malta (Rose playhouse), King Lear (Shakespeare's Globe Co), Hamlet (Norwich Playhouse), Espana in the Works (Royal Opera House, Linbury Studio), Between Love and Passion (New End) and Summit Conference (Edinburgh): tours of Arms and the Man, The Miser, Macbeth, The Thirty Nine Steps, The Moonstone. TV, film and radio work include Family Business, London: The Greatest City, The Fourth Angel, Much Ado About Something, Badly Packed Kebab, The Tombs of Southwark, A Touch of Love, The Tower, Royal Deaths and Diseases and Dynasties and Dysentery.
