Leticia Cáceres

Leticia Cáceres is one of Australia's leading theatre directors.

Career

Leticia Cáceres has directed works for most of Australia's major performing arts companies. From 2013 to 2015, was Associate Director at Melbourne Theatre Company.

She is co-founder of independent theatre company, RealTV whose award-winning works include Hoods (which won a 2009 Matilda Award for Best Independent Production, the 2007 AWGIE Award for Theatre for Young Audiences and received a 2008 Helpmann nomination), War Crimes, and Children of the Black Skirt. RealTV has toured extensively across Australia with Regional Arts Victoria, Queensland Arts Council, Come Out Festival and Barking Gecko Theatre Company.

Cáceres’s other professional appointments include Intern Director and Associate Director for Queensland Theatre Company (2003–2004) and Artistic Director of Tantrum Youth Theatre, Newcastle (2006–2008).

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Productions

2016

• The Distance by Deborah Bruce (Melbourne Theatre Company)

2015

• Mortido by Angela Betzien (Belvoir/State Theatre Company of South Australia)
• Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman (Melbourne Theatre Company/Sydney Theatre Company)
• Birdland by Simon Stephens (Melbourne Theatre Company)

2014

• The Effect by Lucy Prebble (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Yellow Moon by David Greig (Melbourne Theatre Company/Regional Arts Victoria tour)
• Cock by Mike Bartlett (Melbourne Theatre Company/La Boite Theatre Company)

2013

• Miss Julie by Simon Stone, after August Strindberg (Belvoir)
• Tall Man by Angela Betzien (RealTV/LaMama)
• Constellations by Nick Payne (Melbourne Theatre Company)

2012

• Where in the World is Frank Sparrow by Angela Betzien (Monash University)
• Helicopter by Angela Betzien (Melbourne Theatre Company/RealTV)
• Tales from the Underground by Rod Ainsworth, Victoria Carless, Angela Betzien (Creative Regions/ Qld Tour)

2011

• The Dark Room by Angela Betzien (Belvoir/RealTV)
• War Crimes by Angela Betzien (RealTV/Regional Arts Victoria)
• Random by debbie tucker green (Brisbane Powerhouse/Melbourne Theatre Company/Sydney Opera House/RealTV)
• Hoods by Angela Betzien (RealTV/Barking Gecko WA State Tour)

2010

• The Very True and Unusual Life of Chook by Angela Betzien New Visions New Voices Festival (Kennedy Centre, Washington)
• Hoods by Angela Betzien (RealTV/International Tour Cortile Theatre Im Hof, Italy and Dschungle Wien Theaterhous, Austria)
• Hoods by Angela Betzien (RealTV/Melbourne Arts Centre)

2009

• Do You Love Me? by RealTV (Location-Based Game, Melbourne)
• Children of the Black Skirt by Angela Betzien (RealTV/RAV tour/ Abbotsford Convent)
• Hoods by Angela Betzien (RealTV/Barking Gecko Metro Tour)

2008

• Hoods" by Angela Betzien (National Tour/ ASSITEJ WORLD CONGRESS)
• Cosi by Louis Nowra (Tantrum Theatre)

2007

• Hoods by Angela Betzien (Come Out Festival/RealTV/RAV State tour)
• We Came in Chains (Tantrum Theatre)
• Riot by Vanessa Bates, David Brown and Stefo Nantsou (Tantrum Theatre)

2006

• Power Force Live (Tantrum Theatre)
• Savage Naked Love (Tantrum Theatre)
• Hoods by Angela Betzien (RealTV/Sydney Opera House/QAC State Tour/RAV State Tour)

2005

• The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson (Queensland Theatre Company)
• Children of the Black Skirt by Angela Betzien (RealTV/Sydney Opera House/Come Out Festival/QAC State Tour)
• The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare (USQ/Shakespeare in the Park Festival)

2004

• Far Away by Caryl Churchill (Queensland Theatre Company)
• Children of the Black Skirt by Angela Betzien (RealTV/QAC State Tour)

2003

• The Orphanage Projectby Angela Betzien (Queensland Theatre Company)
• Princess of Suburbia by Angela Betzien (RealTV)

2002

• Kingswood Kids by Angela Betzien (La Boite Theatre/Brisbane Festival)

2001

• The Suitcase by Angela Betzien (RealTV/QPAC/Stage X Festival)
• Kingswood Kids by Angela Betzien (Debase/RealTV/Metro Arts)

Awards

Nominated for Best Direction Green Room Award 2014 Yellow Moon Nominated for Best Ensemble Green Room Award 2014 Yellow Moon Winner Best performance by a Theatre Company for Secondary Schools for Drama Victoria Award 2014 Yellow Moon Winner Drama Victoria Award Best performance by a Theatre Company for Secondary Schools 2011 Random Nominated for Best Direction Green Room Award 2011 Random Nominated for Best Production Green Room Award 2011 Random Nominated for Best Direction Sydney Theatre Award 2011 The Dark Room Nominated for Best Production Sydney Theatre Award 2011 The Dark Room Winner Matilda Award for Best Independent Production 2009 HOODS Nominated for Best Direction Matilda Award 2009 HOODS Winner of Best Dramatic Production City of Newcastle Drama Awards 2008 We Came In Chains. Winner People’s Choice Award City of Newcastle Drama Awards 2008 Cosi. Winner British Council Realise Your Dream Award 2008. Nominated for Best Children’s theatre Helpmann Awards 2007 Hoods Winner Lord Mayor’s Fellowship for Excellence in the Arts 2005 (Brisbane) Winner Drama Victoria Award: Best performance by a Theatre Company for Secondary 2005 Schools for Children of the Black Skirt. Nominated Best Direction Matilda Awards 2005 The Memory of Water

Nominated Drama Victoria Award Nomination: Best performance by a Theatre Company for Secondary Schools 2004 Children of the Black Skirt.

References

1. "The Yellow Agency". The Yellow Agency. The Yellow Agency. Retrieved 7 December 2015.