Leticia Caceres has directed for many professional theatre companies, production houses and festivals across Australia including Queensland Theatre Company: The Orphanage Projectby Angela Betzien (2003) Far Away by Caryl Churchill (2004), and The Memory of WaterBy Sheelaugh Stephenson (2005), for which she received a Matilda Award nomination for Best Director; For Sydney Opera House: Children of the Black Skirt (2005); Hoods(2006); La Boite Theatreand Energex Brisbane Festival: The Kingswood Kids (La Boite, 2002);Magdalena Australia Festival:Princess of Suburbia (2003); Stage X Festival: The Suitcase (2001);University of Southern QueenslandShakespeare Festival:The Taming of the Shrew (2005). In 2000 she co founded of nationally acclaimed Real TV with writer Angela Betzien, and their work has toured extensively across the country with Regional Arts Victoria, Queensland Arts Council and to the Come Out International Children’s Festival (Hoods and Children of the Black Skirt, 2003-2007). Their latest work HOODS won the 2007 AWGIE Award for Theatre for Young Audiences and will tour to ASSITEJ World Congress, as well as Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney’s Opera House. Leticia was the Artistic Director for TANTRUM Theatre in Newcastle for which she directed Cosi by Louis Nowra (2008), We Came In Chains;Riot! (2007); Savage Naked Love and Powerforce Live ( 2006). Leticia’s other professional appointments include Intern Director and Associate Director for Queensland Theatre Company (2003-2004). In 2005 she was awarded the Brisbane City Council Lord Mayor’s Fellowship for Excellence in the Arts, to study Direction in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has an Honours degree in Direction from the Queensland University of Technology.
