Josh Coates


Theatre Maker


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Josh Coates (He/Him) is a theatre maker based in Liverpool, UK. He makes work with people about people, giving space for stories to be told in experimental and experiential forms for audiences. He uses autobiography and the gut reactions to political events and mixes them with popular culture to create a distinctive personal style.



He has set fire to a backyard DIY theatre and watched the world burn with a set of polar bears with Powder Keg, which he was a founding member of. He has collaborated with Blast Theory, Belarus Free Theatre and Dan Bye and was a supported artist at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. He has taken part in residences at HAU, Berlin, Theatre Nowy, Warsaw and his most recent show Sunday Morning, a digital walking tour of the internet, was seen by audiences in Sweden, Germany and USA.