Jaz Woodcock-Stewart

Jaz Woodcock-Stewart is a British director, born in 1990. She studied at Dartington College of Arts, East 15 Acting School and the National Theatre Directors Course in London.

Her production of Die Glasmenagerie (The Glass Menagerie) with Theater Basel is invited to the 2026 Theatertreffen.

Her production of Gullivers Reisen (Gulliver’s Travels) currently plays in rep at Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar. For Soho Theatre in London, she directed the world premiere of The Virgins by Miriam Battye. She is also Resident Artist in 2026 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 Stage Directors at Staatschauspiel Dresden. It was also selected for Radikal jung in Munich (2022).

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