About

Leticia Cáceres directs across TV and theatre. As a stage director, Leticia’s has been lauded as "one of the most electrifying directors in this country". She was Associate Director for both Melbourne Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre and her productions have toured nationally and internationally. 

As a television director, in 2024 Leticia was the set up director for Spooky Files season 2 (3 x 24min) co-commissioned by The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Spooky Files is produced by internationally renowned Tony Ayres Productions (TAP) and Emmy Award winning Megaboom Pictures. Also in 2024, Leticia will direct a block of Rock Island Mysteries season 3 (5 x 24min) produced by Fremantle Media for Nickelodeon International and Network 10. Late in 2024, she will be directing a block of TV for EndemolShine Australia.

In 2023, Leticia directed Erotic Stories (4 x30min), an eight-part Australian drama anthology commissioned by SBS and Screen Australia and produced by multi award winning Lingo Pictures with ITV managing international sales. Erotic Stories premiered at the inaugural SXSW Festival Sydney. In 2022 Leticia directed a block of Spooky Files season 1 (2x 24min) which premiered in October 2023 on ABCME and BBC.

Leticia cut her teeth as a TV director in 2020/2021 across seasons 1 and 2 of Stan’s smash original series Bump - produced by Roadshow Rough Diamond.  Bump broke viewing records for Stan in its first season and has gone on to screen globally through broadcasters The CW (USA), BBC iPlayer (UK)  HBOMax LatAM (Latin America) Sky New Zealand and Canada’s CBC Gem. Bump season 2 was nominated for an AACTA award for Best Drama Series and Most Outstanding Drama Series at the 2022 Logies Awards.

Leticia’s short films have screened in academy accredited festivals around Australia and have won awards overseas. 

Her theatre productions have received multiple Helpmanns, Green Rooms, Matildas, Drama Victoria and Sydney Theatre Awards. Leticia has developed and staged over twenty world premiere Australian plays and has collaborated with some of the biggest names in Australian film and theatre including Leah Purcell, Brendan Cowell, Claudia Karvan, Colin Friels and Sigrid Thorton.

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.