Leticia Cacere has directed for many professional theatre companies, production houses and festivals across Australia including Barking Gecko: Hoods (2009); Queensland Theatre Company: The Orphanage Project by Angela Betzien (2003) Far Away by Caryl Churchill (2004), and The Memory of Water By 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 Theatre and 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 Queensland Shakespeare 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 2009 Matilda Award for Best Independent Production and the 2007 AWGIE Award for Theatre for Young Audiences. HOODs toured to ASSITEJ World Congress, as well as Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney’s Opera House. It also received a Helpmann Nomination for Best Children’s Theatre (2008).

Leticia was the Artistic Director for TANTRUM Theatre in Newcastle (2006-2008) for which she directed Cosi by Louis Nowra (2008) which one the City of Newcastle People’s Choice Award, We Came In Chains (2007) Winner of Newcastle City Drama Award for Best Dramatic Production; 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. Nominated as one of the nation’s 1000 “Best and Brightest”, Leticia was invited to participate in the Creative Stream of the Prime Minister’s 2020 Summit.  In 2008 she was a recipient of a British Council Realise Your Dream Award. Untill recently she was a Creative Fellow for the State Library of Victoria where she is developing a new location based games with Real TV. Real TV is also under commission from the Sydney Opera House and Regional Arts Victoria to develop a new work for young audiences entitled War Crimes. In 2009 Leticia was invited by ASSITEJ Germany to attend their bi-annual International Director’s Seminar in Hamburg. She has a First Class Honours degree in Directing from Queensland University of Technology.

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