Leticia Cáceres

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. For MTC, 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). Leticia is currently developing You’re The Voice, an original musical based on the music of John Farnham alongside Tommy Murphy for Michael Cassel Group.

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 Leticia was selected to be a part of MIFF’S 2018 Accelerator Program. Leticia was also the recipient of Screen Australia’s Gender Matters grant - Brilliant Career and in 2018 she was also selected to participate in Screen Australia’s Developing the Developer initiative.

In 2020, Leticia made her television directing debut on the first season of the critical and commercial hit Bump (Roadshow Rough Diamond/ Stan), of which she directed the final three episodes. This was a particularly exciting directorial debut, given Letica’s Argentinian heritage and the fact that the series centred Latino Australian characters at the forefront. Leticia returned to direct an additional three episodes on the second series. Since then, Leticia has amassed an impressive range of credits, working across genres, formats and projects of various scopes. In 2022 she shot Spooky Files for TAP, Matchbox Pictures, ABC and BBC, which was released in 2023. The series was a success, and Leticia was invited back to be the set-up director of the second series, which is due for release later this year. Leticia directed four episodes of the Lingo and SBS anthology series, Erotic Stories. The series, which explored sex and intimacy between typically underrepresented characters on screen, went on to receive unwavering critical acclaim and an AACTA Award nomination for Best Drama Series.

She is currently in production on the third season of the hit Nickelodeon and Fremantle children’s series, Rock Island Mysteries.

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