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Jaz Woodcock-Stewart is an Olivier nominated director, working in theatre, performance and screen.
Latest work includes Glass Menagerie for Theater Basel and Jason Medea Medley for Staatsschauspiel Dresden. Her production of Paradise Now! by Margaret Perry premiered at the Bush Theatre in London in 2023 and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement at an Affiliate Theatre.
For her productions of Paradise Now! and Multiple Casualty Incident she was nominated for Best Director at the Off West End Awards.
Her original work Civilisation, a collaboration with choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple has toured extensively in the UK and internationally, winning the Jury Prize at Fast Forward Festival, Dresden Staatschauspiel's inaugural festival for young stage directors in Europe. Civilisation was invited to Radikal Jung in 2022.
She was nominated by the National Theatre as part of mitos21, the European Theatre Network, to make a new work at Performance Laboratory Salzburg 2019.
She was a finalist for several directing awards in the UK; JMK Award (2016), Genesis Future Directors Award (2017 and 2019), the RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award (2018), the Oxford Trust Samuel Beckett Theatre Award (2020).
She is the Co-Artistic Director of award-winning arts company, Antler (Winner of IdeasTap Underbelly Award, Nominated for The Stage Best Ensemble Award, Winner of Best Short Fiction at BFI Future Film Festival) who have transferred shows to the Bush Theatre, Soho Theatre and toured the UK and internationally.
Antler were an Associate Company at the Bush Theatre 2017-18.
Jaz trained on the National Theatre Studio Director's Course, the Acting and Contemporary Theatre course at East 15 Acting School and Dartington College of Arts.
As Director
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar (2025)
GLASS MENAGERIE, Theater Basel (2025)
THE ATTEMPTS, ongoing, a project by jwscompany (2024-)
GRUD, Hampstead Theatre (2024)
MULTIPLE CASUALTY INCIDENT, Yard Theatre (2024), Nominated for Best Director Off West End Awards
JASON MEDEA MEDLEY, Dresden Staatschauspiel (2023)
PARADISE NOW!, Bush Theatre (2022) / Nominated for an Olivier Award, Nominated for Best Director Off West End Awards
CIVILISATION, Radikal Jung, Munich (2022) / Fast Forward Festival, Staatschauspiel Dresden (2022) / New Diorama, London (2021) / HOME, Manchester (2021) / Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe (2019)
ELECTRIC ROSARY, Royal Exchange (2022)
GULLIVER's TRAVELS, Unicorn Theatre (2022) / Nominated for Best Production for Young Theatre Audiences Off West End Awards
LEARNING PIECE, The Place (2020)
SOMETHING NEW, Performance Laboratory Salzburg, Thomas Bernhard Institut/Mitos21, representing National Theatre, London, Theater at the KunstQuartier (2019)
LANDS, Bush Theatre (2018) / Summerhall (2017) / BAC R&D (2016)
WIFMON (Writing attachment + Workshop), National Theatre Studio (2018)
BROTHER (R+D), The Yard (2018)
DAYS LIKE THIS (Short), BAC, BEFestival, Antler (2016)
YOU'RE SO RELEVANT (Short) by Joel Horwood, Five Plays Project, Young Vic (2016)
IF I WERE ME, Underbelly / Bush Theatre Radar Festival, Soho Theatre, Antler (2015)
THIS WAY UP by Antler, Debut Festival/Edinburgh Fringe (2012)
For Drama Schools
3rd Year SHOWCASE, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, 2025
THE SEAGULL by Anton Chekhov adapted by Martin Crimp, Royal Academy of Music, 2024
THE UNCONSOLED, an adaptation of the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, 2023
MADRIGAL, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, 2021
FEN by Caryl Churchill, LAMDA, 2020
THE BACCHAE by Euripides, in a version by David Greig, East 15 Acting School, 2018
ANNA FIERLING, a version of Brecht's Mother Courage, East 15 Acting School, 2019
As Staff/Resident/Assistant Director
Associate Director, AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, Duke of York's Theatre, David Binder Productions and Wessex Grove, 2024
Assistant Director, ALL ABOUT EVE, Noel Coward Theatre, Sonia Friedman Productions, dir. Ivo van Hove, 2019
Assistant Director, BOOK OF DUST (R&D), Wayward Productions and Bridge Theatre, dir Simon McBurney, 2018
Staff Director, NETWORK adapted by Lee Hall, based on the Paddy Chayevsky film, National Theatre, dir. Ivo van Hove, 2017/2018
Resident Director, LAZARUS by David Bowie and Enda Walsh, King's Cross Theatre, dir. Ivo van Hove, 2016/2017
Assistant Director, ADLER AND GIBB by Tim Crouch, Royal Court tour, Tim Crouch, Karl James, Andy Smith, 2016/2017
Assistant Director, SHAPE OF THE PAIN (R&D) created by Chris Thorpe and Rachel Bagshaw, dir. Rachel Bagshaw, 2016
Assistant Director, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, Young Vic, dir. Joe Hill-Gibbins, 2015
As part of the Jerwood Assistant Director Programme 2015/2016 supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation
Assistant Director, STINK FOOT, The Yard, dir. Jeff James, 2014
Assistant Director, EYE OF A NEEDLE, Southwark Playhouse, dir. Holly Roughan, 2014
As Dramaturg
EUROHOUSE by Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas, Summerhall and UK Tour, 2016/17
Nominated for a Total Theatre Award for Innovation, Experimentation and Playing with Form
SEE-THROUGH by Claire Gaydon, Summerhall, Vault Festival, Camden People's Theatre and UK Tour, 2018/2019
DRESSED. by ThisEgg, Underbelly, 2018
Fringe First Award 2018, New Diorama Theatre & Underbelly’s UNTAPPED award 2018
SLAP BACK ECHO by Grace Gibson (R&D), 2018
IPHEGENIA (R&D), Almeida Theatre, dir. Lucy Wray, 2019
As Co-creator
WHERE THE WHITE STOPS by Antler, Underbelly, The Bush, New Diorama, UK Tour, Richard Perryman, 2013
As Writer
EMMELINE, Short Film, Antler, 2012
Winner of BEST SHORT FICTION at BFI Future Film Festival, Winner of YOUTH JURY PRIZE at Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, OFFICIAL SELECTION for New York International Children’s Film Festival, Melbourne International Children’s Film Festival, Singapore International Children’s Film Festival amongst others.
Education and Training
National Theatre Studio Director's Course, 2016
Jerwood Assistant Director Program, Young Vic, 2015/2016
East 15 Acting School, 2009-2012, BA (Hons) Acting and Contemporary Theatre, 1st Class
Dartington College of Arts, 2008-2009
Skills
Reads Music
Workshop facilitation
Organisations include National Theatre, Young Vic, Soho Theatre, Bush Theatre, University of Birmingham, Marlowe Theatre Canterbury, Kings College London, East 15 Acting School, LAMDA, RCSSD, Rose Bruford, Arts Ed and Oxford School of Drama.