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Jaz Woodcock-Stewart

Director / Writer

Represented by:

Jessica Stewart

Jaz Woodcock-Stewart is an Olivier-nominated Director and Artist.

She is from the Black Country and based in London.

Her production of Glass Menagerie with Theater Basel is invited to this year’s Theatertreffen.

Her production of Gulliver’s Travels currently plays in rep at Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar. For Soho Theatre in London, she has directed the world premiere of The Virgins by Miriam Battye.

She is also Resident Artist this year with House Productions (Conclave, Zone of Interest) and is the recipient of a Berlin Fellowship at the Akademie der Künste.

Her production of Paradise Now! by Margaret Perry was nominated for the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement at an Affiliate Theatre.

Her work Jason Medea Medley, an original adaptation of Medea with the company, premiered at Staatsschauspiel Dresden in 2023.

Her production Civilisation, a collaboration with choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple won the Jury Prize at Fast Forward Festival (2021), the European Festival for Young Directors at Dresden Staatschauspiel. It was also selected for Radikal Jung in Munich (2022)

Jaz is co-artistic director of jwscompany (previously Antler). They were Associate Artists at the Bush Theatre 2017-2018. Her play Lands ran at the Bush Theatre and was published by Oberon Books.

Credits

AS DIRECTOR
Date: 2026
Production (role):
THE VIRGINS
Company:
Soho Theatre
Project details:
Written by Miriam Battye

**** A tornado of gossip, pretence and pain - The Guardian
**** Stunning...extraordinarily funny - The Times
**** Exquisitely excruciating - Evening Standard
***** Razor Sharp - Broadway World
**** Brilliantly observed, killingly funny and shatteringly sad - The Stage
Date: 2025
Production (role):
GULLIVERS REISEN
Company:
Deutches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar
Project details:
Written by Lulu Raczka and devised with the original company Leah Brotherhead, Mae Munuo, Sam Swann, Jacoba Williams and Jaz Woodcock-Stewart.
Date: 2025
Production (role):
DIE GLASMENAGERIE
Company:
Theater Basel
Project details:
'In her Basel debut, Jaz Woodcock-Stewart has created a clearly executed and multi-layered stage experience that you can take in, with thoroughly touching moments.' -Nachtkritik

'We are in the theater and get what we want: loud and quiet, comedic and tragic, dancing circus-like, saddened to death.' - Südkurier

'An ingenious trick: two versions of the Wingfields' home can be seen in the course of the evening. A profound and hugely recommendable evening of theater.' - BaZ

'Jan Bluthardt is convincing with his oppressive psychogram of a broken being who is only able to suppress his aggression towards his overbearing mother with difficulty. And Antoinette Ullrich is touching with her sad defiance, which isolates her from the outside world.' - BZ Basel

'Jaz Woodcock-Stewart takes up the classic and brings it into the present. 80 years later and more relevant than ever.' - Missy Magazine
Date: 2025
Production (role):
SHOWCASE
Company:
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Date: 2024 -
Production (role):
THE ATTEMPTS
Company:
jwscompany
Project details:
Ongoing project
Date: 2024
Production (role):
GRUD
Company:
Hampstead Theatre
Project details:
* Nominated for Off West End Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Lead Performance, Best Newcomer and Best New Play.
Date: 2024
Production (role):
MULTIPLE CASUALTY INCIDENT
Company:
Yard Theatre
Project details:
* Nominated for Best Director - Off West End Awards
Date: 2024
Production (role):
THE SEAGULL
Company:
Royal Academy of Music
Project details:
by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Martin Crimp
Date: 2023
Production (role):
JASON MEDEA MEDLEY
Company:
Dresden Staatschauspiel
Date: 2023
Production (role):
THE UNCONSOLED
Company:
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Project details:
Adaptation of the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
Date: 2022
Production (role):
PARADISE NOW!
Company:
Bush Theatre
Project details:
* Nominated for Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre
* Nominated for Best Director - Off West End Awards
* Other nominations included Best Design, Best Performance Ensemble, Best New Play
Date: 2019 - 2022
Production (role):
CIVILISATION
Company:
Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe / HOME, Manchester / New Diorama, London / Fast Forward Festival, Staatsschauspiel Dresden / Radikal Jung, Munich
Project details:
Radikal Jung, Munich (2022) / Fast Forward Festival, Staatschauspiel Dresden (2022) / New Diorama, London (2021) / HOME, Manchester (2021) / Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe (2019)
* Jury Prize at Fast Forward Festival
Date: 2022
Production (role):
ELECTRIC ROSARY
Company:
Royal Exchange Theatre
Date: 2022
Production (role):
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
Company:
Unicorn Theatre
Project details:
* Best Production for Young Theatre Audiences - Off West End Awards
* Best Music and Sound - Theatre for Young Audiences - Off West End Awards
* Best Design - Theatre for Young Audiences - Off West End Awards
Date: 2021
Production (role):
MADRIGAL
Company:
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Project details:
Devised by Jaz and the company
Date: 2020
Production (role):
FEN
Company:
LAMDA
Project details:
by Caryl Churchill
Date: 2020
Production (role):
LEARNING PIECE
Company:
The Place
Date: 2019
Production (role):
ANNA FIERLING
Company:
East 15 Acting School
Project details:
A version of Brecht's Mother Courage
Date: 2019
Production (role):
CIVILISATION
Company:
Underbelly
Date: 2019
Production (role):
SOMETHING NEW
Company:
Thomas Bernhard Institut/NT/Mitos21,
Project details:
Performance Laboratory Salzburg, Theater at the KunstQuartier
Nominated by the National Theatre to attend

Date: 2018/2019
Production (role):
BROTHER
Company:
Yard
Project details:
R&D
Date: 2018
Production (role):
LANDS
Company:
Antler / Bush Theatre
Date: 2018
Production (role):
THE BACCHAE
Company:
East 15 Acting School
Project details:
by Euripides in a version by David Greig
Date: 2018
Production (role):
WIFMON (R&D)
Company:
National Theatre Studio
Project details:
Writing attachment + workshop at NT Studio
Date: 2018
Production (role):
BROTHER (R&D)
Company:
The Yard Theatre
Date: 2017
Production (role):
LANDS
Company:
Antler
Project details:
Run at Summerhall as part of Edinburgh Fringe
Date: 2017
Production (role):
FIRST SECOND (Workshop)
Company:
Oxford School of Drama
Date: 2016
Production (role):
LANDS (R&D)
Company:
Antler / BAC
Date: 2016
Production (role):
DAYS LIKE THIS
Company:
Antler/ BAC
Project details:
Befestival
Date: 2016
Production (role):
IF I WERE ME
Company:
Antler / Soho Theatre
Date: 2016
Production (role):
YOU'RE SO RELEVANT
Company:
Young Vic
Project details:
Short play by Joel Horwood as part of the Five Plays Project
Date: 2015
Production (role):
IF I WERE ME
Company:
Antler / Underbelly / Bush Theatre
Date: 2014
Production (role):
WHISTLEBLOWER
Company:
Theatre503
Project details:
Short play by Nasi Voutsas
Date: 2014
Production (role):
SCHOOLBOY
Company:
The Cockpit
Project details:
Short play by Sam Grabiner
Date: 2013
Production (role):
DREAMS OF A SCHOLAR
Company:
Ovalhouse
Project details:
Short play by Emma Denis-Edwards
Date: 2012
Production (role):
THIS WAY UP
Company:
Antler
Project details:
Debut at Edinburgh Fringe
AS ASSOCIATE/ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Date: 2024
Production (role):
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (Associate Director)
Company:
Wessex Grove / David Binder Productions / Duke of York's Theatre
Project details:
Dir. Thomas Ostermeier
Date: 2019
Production (role):
ALL ABOUT EVE (Assistant Director)
Company:
Noel Coward Theatre / Sonia Friedman Productions
Project details:
Dir. Ivo Van Hove
Date: 2018
Production (role):
BOOK OF DUST (R&D) (Assistant Director)
Company:
Wayward Productions / Bridge Theatre
Project details:
Dir. Simon McBurney
Date: 2017/2018
Production (role):
NETWORK (Staff Director)
Company:
National Theatre
Project details:
Adapted by Lee Hall, based on the Paddy Chayefsky film
Dir. Ivo Van Hove
Date: 2016/2017
Production (role):
LAZARUS (Resident Director)
Company:
King's Cross Theatre
Project details:
by David Bowie and Enda Walsh.
Dir. Ivo Van Hove
Date: 2016/2017
Production (role):
ADLER AND GIBB (Assistant Director)
Company:
Royal Court and In Company Collective Tour
Project details:
Written and directed by Tim Crouch.
Date: 2016
Production (role):
SHAPE OF THE PAIN (Assistant Director)
Project details:
By Chris Thorpe.
Concept and direction by Rachel Bagshaw.
R&D.
Date: 2016
Production (role):
TORTOISE (Assistant Director)
Company:
Arcola Theatre
Project details:
Rehearsed reading
Dir. Ellen McDougall.
Date: 2015
Production (role):
MEASURE FOR MEASURE (Assistant Director)
Company:
Young Vic
Project details:
Dir. Joe Hill-Gibbins.
As part of the Jerwood Assistant Director Programme 2015/2016 supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
Date: 2014
Production (role):
STINK FOOT (Assistant Director)
Company:
The Yard
Project details:
Dir. Jeff James
Date: 2014
Production (role):
EYE OF A NEEDLE (Assistant Director)
Company:
Southwark Playhouse
Project details:
Dir. Holly Roughan
Date: 2013
Production (role):
WHERE THE WHITE STOPS
Company:
Antler / Underbelly / Bush Theatre / New Diorama, UK Tour
Project details:
Co-Creator/Writer
Directed by Richard Perryman
Cast includes Jasmine Woodcock-Stewart, Alan Devally, Zachary Hunt, Daniela Pasquini
DRAMATURGY
Date: 2025
Production (role):
QUESTIONS FOR JOHN
Company:
Complicité / Edinburgh International Festival
Project details:
Conceived and Performed by Simon McBurney
Date: 2019
Production (role):
IPHEGENIA (R&D)
Company:
Almeida Theatre
Project details:
Dir. Lucy Wray
Date: 2018
Production (role):
SLAP BACK ECHO (R&D)
Project details:
by Grace Gibson
Date: 2018
Production (role):
DRESSED
Company:
ThisEgg / Underbelly
Project details:
* Fringe First Award 2018, New Diorama Theatre & Underbelly's UNTAPPED Award 2018
Date: 2018/2019
Production (role):
SEE-THROUGH
Company:
Summerhall / Vault Festival / Camden People's Theatre and UK Tour
Project details:
by Claire Gaydon
Date: 2016/2017
Production (role):
EUROHOUSE
Company:
Summerhall and UK Tour
Project details:
By Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas
* Nominated for a Total Theatre Award for Innovation, Experimentation and Playing with Form
SHORT FILM
Date: 2012
Production (role):
EMMELINE
Company:
Antler
Project details:
Writer and Co-Creator.
* 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 / TRAINING
Date: 2016
Company:
National Theatre Studio Director's Course
Date: 2015/2016
Company:
Jerwood Assistant Director Programme, Young Vic
Date: 2009-2012
Company:
EAST 15 Acting School, BA (Hons) Acting and Contemporary Theatre, 1st Class
Date: 2008-2009
Company:
Dartington College of Arts

Credits

  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2026
    Production (role): THE VIRGINS
    Company: Soho Theatre
    Project details: Written by Miriam Battye

    **** A tornado of gossip, pretence and pain - The Guardian
    **** Stunning...extraordinarily funny - The Times
    **** Exquisitely excruciating - Evening Standard
    ***** Razor Sharp - Broadway World
    **** Brilliantly observed, killingly funny and shatteringly sad - The Stage
  • Date: 2025
    Production (role): GULLIVERS REISEN
    Company: Deutches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar
    Project details: Written by Lulu Raczka and devised with the original company Leah Brotherhead, Mae Munuo, Sam Swann, Jacoba Williams and Jaz Woodcock-Stewart.
  • Date: 2025
    Production (role): DIE GLASMENAGERIE
    Company: Theater Basel
    Project details: 'In her Basel debut, Jaz Woodcock-Stewart has created a clearly executed and multi-layered stage experience that you can take in, with thoroughly touching moments.' -Nachtkritik

    'We are in the theater and get what we want: loud and quiet, comedic and tragic, dancing circus-like, saddened to death.' - Südkurier

    'An ingenious trick: two versions of the Wingfields' home can be seen in the course of the evening. A profound and hugely recommendable evening of theater.' - BaZ

    'Jan Bluthardt is convincing with his oppressive psychogram of a broken being who is only able to suppress his aggression towards his overbearing mother with difficulty. And Antoinette Ullrich is touching with her sad defiance, which isolates her from the outside world.' - BZ Basel

    'Jaz Woodcock-Stewart takes up the classic and brings it into the present. 80 years later and more relevant than ever.' - Missy Magazine
  • Date: 2025
    Production (role): SHOWCASE
    Company: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
    Project details:
  • Date: 2024 -
    Production (role): THE ATTEMPTS
    Company: jwscompany
    Project details: Ongoing project
  • Date: 2024
    Production (role): GRUD
    Company: Hampstead Theatre
    Project details: * Nominated for Off West End Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Lead Performance, Best Newcomer and Best New Play.
  • Date: 2024
    Production (role): MULTIPLE CASUALTY INCIDENT
    Company: Yard Theatre
    Project details: * Nominated for Best Director - Off West End Awards
  • Date: 2024
    Production (role): THE SEAGULL
    Company: Royal Academy of Music
    Project details: by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Martin Crimp
  • Date: 2023
    Production (role): JASON MEDEA MEDLEY
    Company: Dresden Staatschauspiel
    Project details:
  • Date: 2023
    Production (role): THE UNCONSOLED
    Company: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
    Project details: Adaptation of the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Date: 2022
    Production (role): PARADISE NOW!
    Company: Bush Theatre
    Project details: * Nominated for Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre
    * Nominated for Best Director - Off West End Awards
    * Other nominations included Best Design, Best Performance Ensemble, Best New Play
  • Date: 2019 - 2022
    Production (role): CIVILISATION
    Company: Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe / HOME, Manchester / New Diorama, London / Fast Forward Festival, Staatsschauspiel Dresden / Radikal Jung, Munich
    Project details: Radikal Jung, Munich (2022) / Fast Forward Festival, Staatschauspiel Dresden (2022) / New Diorama, London (2021) / HOME, Manchester (2021) / Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe (2019)
    * Jury Prize at Fast Forward Festival
  • Date: 2022
    Production (role): ELECTRIC ROSARY
    Company: Royal Exchange Theatre
    Project details:
  • Date: 2022
    Production (role): GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
    Company: Unicorn Theatre
    Project details: * Best Production for Young Theatre Audiences - Off West End Awards
    * Best Music and Sound - Theatre for Young Audiences - Off West End Awards
    * Best Design - Theatre for Young Audiences - Off West End Awards
  • Date: 2021
    Production (role): MADRIGAL
    Company: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
    Project details: Devised by Jaz and the company
  • Date: 2020
    Production (role): FEN
    Company: LAMDA
    Project details: by Caryl Churchill
  • Date: 2020
    Production (role): LEARNING PIECE
    Company: The Place
    Project details:
  • Date: 2019
    Production (role): ANNA FIERLING
    Company: East 15 Acting School
    Project details: A version of Brecht's Mother Courage
  • Date: 2019
    Production (role): CIVILISATION
    Company: Underbelly
    Project details:
  • Date: 2019
    Production (role): SOMETHING NEW
    Company: Thomas Bernhard Institut/NT/Mitos21,
    Project details: Performance Laboratory Salzburg, Theater at the KunstQuartier
    Nominated by the National Theatre to attend

  • Date: 2018/2019
    Production (role): BROTHER
    Company: Yard
    Project details: R&D
  • Date: 2018
    Production (role): LANDS
    Company: Antler / Bush Theatre
    Project details:
  • Date: 2018
    Production (role): THE BACCHAE
    Company: East 15 Acting School
    Project details: by Euripides in a version by David Greig
  • Date: 2018
    Production (role): WIFMON (R&D)
    Company: National Theatre Studio
    Project details: Writing attachment + workshop at NT Studio
  • Date: 2018
    Production (role): BROTHER (R&D)
    Company: The Yard Theatre
    Project details:
  • Date: 2017
    Production (role): LANDS
    Company: Antler
    Project details: Run at Summerhall as part of Edinburgh Fringe
  • Date: 2017
    Production (role): FIRST SECOND (Workshop)
    Company: Oxford School of Drama
    Project details:
  • Date: 2016
    Production (role): LANDS (R&D)
    Company: Antler / BAC
    Project details:
  • Date: 2016
    Production (role): DAYS LIKE THIS
    Company: Antler/ BAC
    Project details: Befestival
  • Date: 2016
    Production (role): IF I WERE ME
    Company: Antler / Soho Theatre
    Project details:
  • Date: 2016
    Production (role): YOU'RE SO RELEVANT
    Company: Young Vic
    Project details: Short play by Joel Horwood as part of the Five Plays Project
  • Date: 2015
    Production (role): IF I WERE ME
    Company: Antler / Underbelly / Bush Theatre
    Project details:
  • Date: 2014
    Production (role): WHISTLEBLOWER
    Company: Theatre503
    Project details: Short play by Nasi Voutsas
  • Date: 2014
    Production (role): SCHOOLBOY
    Company: The Cockpit
    Project details: Short play by Sam Grabiner
  • Date: 2013
    Production (role): DREAMS OF A SCHOLAR
    Company: Ovalhouse
    Project details: Short play by Emma Denis-Edwards
  • Date: 2012
    Production (role): THIS WAY UP
    Company: Antler
    Project details: Debut at Edinburgh Fringe
  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2024
    Production (role): ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (Associate Director)
    Company: Wessex Grove / David Binder Productions / Duke of York's Theatre
    Project details: Dir. Thomas Ostermeier
  • Date: 2019
    Production (role): ALL ABOUT EVE (Assistant Director)
    Company: Noel Coward Theatre / Sonia Friedman Productions
    Project details: Dir. Ivo Van Hove
  • Date: 2018
    Production (role): BOOK OF DUST (R&D) (Assistant Director)
    Company: Wayward Productions / Bridge Theatre
    Project details: Dir. Simon McBurney
  • Date: 2017/2018
    Production (role): NETWORK (Staff Director)
    Company: National Theatre
    Project details: Adapted by Lee Hall, based on the Paddy Chayefsky film
    Dir. Ivo Van Hove
  • Date: 2016/2017
    Production (role): LAZARUS (Resident Director)
    Company: King's Cross Theatre
    Project details: by David Bowie and Enda Walsh.
    Dir. Ivo Van Hove
  • Date: 2016/2017
    Production (role): ADLER AND GIBB (Assistant Director)
    Company: Royal Court and In Company Collective Tour
    Project details: Written and directed by Tim Crouch.
  • Date: 2016
    Production (role): SHAPE OF THE PAIN (Assistant Director)
    Company:
    Project details: By Chris Thorpe.
    Concept and direction by Rachel Bagshaw.
    R&D.
  • Date: 2016
    Production (role): TORTOISE (Assistant Director)
    Company: Arcola Theatre
    Project details: Rehearsed reading
    Dir. Ellen McDougall.
  • Date: 2015
    Production (role): MEASURE FOR MEASURE (Assistant Director)
    Company: Young Vic
    Project details: Dir. Joe Hill-Gibbins.
    As part of the Jerwood Assistant Director Programme 2015/2016 supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
  • Date: 2014
    Production (role): STINK FOOT (Assistant Director)
    Company: The Yard
    Project details: Dir. Jeff James
  • Date: 2014
    Production (role): EYE OF A NEEDLE (Assistant Director)
    Company: Southwark Playhouse
    Project details: Dir. Holly Roughan
  • Date: 2013
    Production (role): WHERE THE WHITE STOPS
    Company: Antler / Underbelly / Bush Theatre / New Diorama, UK Tour
    Project details: Co-Creator/Writer
    Directed by Richard Perryman
    Cast includes Jasmine Woodcock-Stewart, Alan Devally, Zachary Hunt, Daniela Pasquini
  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2025
    Production (role): QUESTIONS FOR JOHN
    Company: Complicité / Edinburgh International Festival
    Project details: Conceived and Performed by Simon McBurney
  • Date: 2019
    Production (role): IPHEGENIA (R&D)
    Company: Almeida Theatre
    Project details: Dir. Lucy Wray
  • Date: 2018
    Production (role): SLAP BACK ECHO (R&D)
    Company:
    Project details: by Grace Gibson
  • Date: 2018
    Production (role): DRESSED
    Company: ThisEgg / Underbelly
    Project details: * Fringe First Award 2018, New Diorama Theatre & Underbelly's UNTAPPED Award 2018
  • Date: 2018/2019
    Production (role): SEE-THROUGH
    Company: Summerhall / Vault Festival / Camden People's Theatre and UK Tour
    Project details: by Claire Gaydon
  • Date: 2016/2017
    Production (role): EUROHOUSE
    Company: Summerhall and UK Tour
    Project details: By Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas
    * Nominated for a Total Theatre Award for Innovation, Experimentation and Playing with Form
  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2012
    Production (role): EMMELINE
    Company: Antler
    Project details: Writer and Co-Creator.
    * 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.
  • Date
    Company
  • Date: 2016
    Company: National Theatre Studio Director's Course
  • Date: 2015/2016
    Company: Jerwood Assistant Director Programme, Young Vic
  • Date: 2009-2012
    Company: EAST 15 Acting School, BA (Hons) Acting and Contemporary Theatre, 1st Class
  • Date: 2008-2009
    Company: Dartington College of Arts
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