She/Her
MFA (Directing)
Tait de Lorenzo is a director and writer specialising in multidisciplinary performance. Her work interrogates contemporary culture through the lens of performance, examining how identity is constructed and consumed.
Her stage direction and development credits include work for Red Stitch Actors' Theatre, Belvoir, NIDA, Griffin, The Old 505, Sydney Chamber Opera, ACPA, AFTT, PACT Centre for Emerging Artists and Brand X.
She has an extensive list of screen direction credits and works frequently in commercial production. Her debut documentary, Untucked, received Best Documentary at the SMPTE Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2015.
Tait is a sought-after associate director and has worked with some of Australia's leading directors at Sydney Theatre Company, Michael Cassel Group, Sydney Chamber Opera, Opera Australia, Queensland Theatre Company and NIDA.
Tait's work has been supported through artistic fellowships and residencies, including the Ian Potter Cultural Trust (2025), the Freddie J. Gibson Fellowship (NIDA 2023), the Incubator Fellowship (Griffin Theatre Company & Create NSW 2021), Resident Curator (PACT Centre for Emerging Artists 2020) and the Shut Down Residency (Belvoir 2020).
Tait has directed and curated live event programs for Kaldor Public Art Projects, The Art Gallery of NSW, RIZER, For Film’s Sake Festival and PACT Centre for Emerging Artists.
Tait is the international associate director of the groundbreaking cine-theatre production The Picture of Dorian Gray (Michael Cassel Group, Kindred Partners and Sydney Theatre Company), which recently completed an Olivier award-winning run on the West End, and a Tony award-winning run on Broadway.
Tait is represented by Mollison Keightley Management in Australia.
TRAINING
MFA (Directing) National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) 2019
BA (Film & Television Production) JMC 2016
Sovereignty has never been ceded. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal Land.