in drag, some not. Up Your A$$ later premiered in New York at PS 122. Recent Activity From 2004 to 2011, Coates ran an online video blog, Better Bad News, a scripted video series with a cast of performers. He has hosted Twit Wit Radio, a weekly political satire program with a cast of actors, on Pacifica Radio, KPFA 94.1 FM, since 2011. Influences George Coates cited the participatory scientific displays of Frank Oppenheimer as a major influence. The brother of Robert J. Oppenheimer, Frank founded the Exploratorium, San Francisco's hands-on, interactive people's science museum. Selected Productions 2001, Crazy Wisdom (Performance Works, San Francisco, CA) 2000, Up Your A$$ (Performance Space 122, New York, NY) 1999, Triangulated Nation (Performance Works, San Francisco, CA) 1998, Blind Messengers (Golden State Archives Museum Sacramento, CA) 1998, Wittgenstein : On Mars (Performance Works, San Francisco, CA) 1997, 20/20 Blake: The Visions of William Blake (Theater Festival, São Paulo, Brazil) 1997, Twisted Pairs (Performance Works, San Francisco, CA) 1995, The Bandwidth Addict (Performance Works, San Francisco, CA) 1994, Nowhere NowHere (Artsphere Theatre, Tokyo, Japan) 1993, Box Conspiracy (Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC) 1992, The Desert Music: A Live Sho (Performance Works, San Francisco, CA) 1991, Invisible Site: A Virtual Sho (SIGGRAPH '91, Las Vegas, NV) 1990–91, The Architecture of Catastrophic Change (Performance Works, San Francisco, CA) 1989, Right Mind (American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, CA) 1987, Actual Sho (Theatre Der Welt, Stuttgart, Germany; Pepsico Summerfare SUNY Purchase, NY; Kennedy Center Opera House, Washington, DC) 1985–86, RARE AREA (Kaai Festival, Brussels, Belgium) 1983, Seehear (American Music Theatre Festival, Philadelphia, PA) 1982, Are/Are (Theatre Artaud, San Francisco, CA) 1981–82, The Way of How (Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival, New York, NY; Lift Festival, London, UK; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN) 1979–1980, Duykers the First (Kaai Festival of International Theater, Brussels, Belgium; Festival Carrefour, Lille, France; Mickery Theater, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Festival Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France) 1977, 2019 Blake (International New Theatre Festival, Baltimore, MD; International Creative Workshop of Mime, Wroclaw, Poland) 1976, Dropouts (Berkeley Stage Company, Berkeley, CA) References American theatre directors Living people 1952 births