Shane Ellis Coates
Playwright – The Sinking of the S. S. Ethie
Shane Ellis Coates has been a language instructor since 1996. He spent a year teaching in South Korea before moving to Istanbul in 1998. Since 2003, his teaching has focused primarily on academic and professional writing. He was the coordinator for the Academic Support Center at Istanbul Bilgi University, and spent a year working as a copy editor for The Report, an international business magazine published by Oxford Business Group, before returning to Korea in 2008. In 2009 he became the program coordinator for the newly established International Writing Center at Kyungpook National University. Shane is currently a course coordinator and academic writing instructor at Nazarbayev University in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. He holds undergraduate degrees in Literature & History; as well as a Master’s Degree in Global Higher Education.
The Sinking of the S.S. Ethie has played at the Gros Morne Theatre Festival every year since its inception in 1996.