Simon Coates (born in Sheffield) is a British mixed media artist, writer and curator.
[citation needed] The programme features sound art, noise and experimental music from the Middle East, Africa and the Indian subcontinent.
[citation needed] Between October 2013 and May 2015 Coates was General Manager of the Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre (DUCTAC).
[citation needed] He art-directed DUCTAC’s 2014/15 season that commissioned theatre performances from comedian Trevor Noah, the Chicago Shakespeare Company, Indian playwright and poet Gulzar, the Moscow City Ballet, the acclaimed Hindi version of Twelfth Night, Piya Behrupiya and more.
[citation needed] Coates has also worked under the pseudonym A Taxi For My Uncle and as one half of the Visqueen experiments-in-noise duo.