Leticia Cáceres

Stage & Screen Director

Leticia Cáceres is one of the country’s most in-demand directors for the stage and is also building an impressive reputation as a screen director.

She was Associate Director at MTC from 2013 to 2015, where she directed The House of Bernarda Alba, The Distance, Death and The Maiden (MTC/ STC), Birdland (Winner of Best Director Green Room Award), The Effect, Cock and Constellations, as well as MTC Education shows Yellow Moon (winner of a Drama Victoria Award), Helicopter and Random (nominated for three Green Room Awards). In 2020, Leticia made her television directing debut with the final three episodes of the critically and commercially successful first season of Bump (Roadshow Rough Diamond/Stan), returning to direct three more episodes in its second season. Since then, she has built an impressive and diverse body of work across genres and formats.

In 2017, Leticia won the Helpmann and Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Direction of a Play for Belvoir production The Drover’s Wife. The play also won Best Production at both ceremonies. For Belvoir St, she has also directed Tell Me I’m Here, Random (nominated for two Sydney Theatre Awards), Barbara and the Camp Dogs (Winner of the Helpmann Award for Best Musical and nominated for four Sydney Theatre Awards), Mortido (co-produced with STCSA), Miss Julie and The Dark Room (nominated for seven Sydney Theatre Awards). For Malthouse Theatre, she has directed Going Down (co-produced with STC) and Barbara and the Camp Dogs which toured the east coast of Australia in 2019.

As a filmmaker Leticia’s first short film Wild, won the London Film Awards’ ‘Golden Lion - Best First Time Director’. It was also selected for screening at the Setting Sun Film Festival (Melbourne) and won the ‘Next Gen Student Film Award’ at the inaugural Melbourne Women in Film Festival. Her second film The True History of Billie the Kid won ‘Best Student Film’ at the London Independent Film Awards and was screened at The Melbourne International Film Festival for which she was selected for MIFF’s 2018 Accelerator Program.

In 2022, she directed Spooky Files (TAP, Matchbox Pictures, ABC, BBC), which premiered in 2023 to great success, returning to again direct three more episodes of its second season. She directed four episodes of the acclaimed anthology series Erotic Stories (Lingo, SBS). In 2024, Leticia also directed five episodes of Rock Island Mysteries (Fremantle, Nickelodeon), and two episodes of Royal Flying Doctors (Endemol Shine, PBS, Network Seven).

For enquiries regarding Leticia Cáceres please contact us via email or on 02 9319 7199.