About

Leticia Cáceres is an award-winning Argentine/Australian director with over 20 years of experience across screen and stage. Her work spans drama, comedy, opera, musicals, and new writing, earning recognition at Australia’s highest levels: Helpmann Awards, Green Room Awards, Sydney Theatre Awards, and nominations for AACTA, LOGIE, and Australian Directors Guild Awards.

On stage, Leticia has directed more than 30 professional productions for Australia’s leading theatre companies. As Associate Director at Melbourne Theatre Company (2012 to 2015), she directed mainstage seasons and championed pathways for emerging artists. Her Helpmann Award-winning production of The Drover’s Wife by Leah Purcell at Belvoir St Theatre cemented her reputation for visceral, actor-driven storytelling. Other landmark credits include Barbara and the Camp Dogs (Helpmann Award, Best Musical), Birdland (Green Room Award, Best Direction), and nationally and internationally touring work that reached the Sydney Opera House, the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC, Dschungel Wien, Vienna and Cortile Theater im Hof, Bolzano, Italy.

For television, Leticia has directed across networks and genres: Bump for Stan (Seasons 1 and 2), Erotic Stories for SBS, RFDS Season 3 for Network Seven, Spooky Files for ABC and BBC, and Rock Island Mysteries for Network 10 and Nickelodeon. Her screen work has garnered AACTA, LOGIE, and ADG Award nominations, and her series have sold internationally to BBC One, HBO Max, CW Network, and CBC.

Leticia is currently developing her feature debut, Bean, a coming-of-age road movie written by Claire Phillips and produced by Miriam Stein of Tama Films, with development funding from Screen NSW. In 2025, she wrote and directed Weight Limit, a short film exploring her personal experience of migration from 1980s Argentina, reimagined in a contemporary Latin/Australian context. In 2026, Leticia returns to the stage to direct Losing Face by Marieke Hardy for Melbourne Theatre Company.

Leticia is passionate about female centric stories, and stories about outsiders and belonging.

Leticia was born in Córdoba, Argentina. She learned to speak English in Canada, and emigrated to Brisbane, Australia with her family when she was 13. She now lives in Melbourne with her husband, Sebastian, their daughter, Rocío, and their Spoodle, Tully.  

Leticia is represented by Cameron’s Management and is a proud member of the Australian Director’s Guild.