Berlin Fellowship 2025 — Performing Arts
Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
*1990 in London (UK)
Lives in London (UK)
Web: www.jazwoodcockstewart.com
Instagram: @jazwoodstew
Vita
Jaz Woodcock-Stewart is a British theatre director. Her production of Paradise Now! (Bush Theatre) was nominated for the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement at an Affiliate Theatre. She is the co-writer and director of Lands (2018) and writer and director of Civilisation (2019-22), a collaboration with acclaimed choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple. Civilisation won the Jury Prize at the Fast Forward Festival (2021), a European Festival for Young Stage Directors at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. It was selected for the Radikal Jung Festival in Munich (2022). Jaz’s latest international work includes Jason Medea Medley (2023). In 2025, she directs The Glass Menagerie for Theater Basel and Gulliver’s Travels for DNT Weimar.
Residency
My work is rooted in exploring contradiction within aesthetics, form, and the portrayal of human beings. I’m particularly interested in the relationship between precision and freedom, order and chaos, both for the performer and myself as a director. I’m drawn to discovering and developing structures that support the genuinely live moment, and to investigating how rules and freedom interact in the pursuit of this truth. Formally, I’m looking to expand my performance practice and explore what happens when I lean further into choreographic and visual art disciplines, allowing the work to exist more in the in-between space.