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, Sydney Chamber Opera, The Old 505, 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.
As an associate director, she has worked with some of Australia's leading directors at Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Michael Cassel Group, Sydney Chamber Opera, Opera Australia, Queensland Theatre and NIDA. Tait is the associate director of the Tony and Olivier award-winning cine-theatre production The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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.
Tait's work has been supported through artistic fellowships and residencies, including Melbourne Theatre Company's Future Directors initiative, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, NIDA's Freddie J. Gibson Fellowship, Griffin & Create NSW's Incubator Fellowship, PACT's Resident Curatorship and Belvoir's Shut Down Residency.
In 2027, Tait will co-direct David & Amy Sedaris' The Book of Liz for Sydney Theatre Company with Mitchell Butel.
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
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