Irene Coates

Irene Coates was born in London. In the 1940s she lived in Cambridge and ran the Cambridge Drama Centre. From 1953-56 she lived in India, studying Hindustani music. Between 1961 and 1981 she wrote 14 plays, many of them professionally produced. Since moving to Australia in 1982 her plays Three Short Plays and Self Service have been produced. In 1998 she was Writer in Residence (drama) at the University of Western Sydney, Nepean. She has had four books published, including Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf.