Paula Paz
STAGE director
In a nutshell
Stage Director
Paula is a stage director for theatre and opera.
Artistic Director
In 2016 she cofounded the Cervantes Theatre in London, the first bilingual theatre in the UK dedicated to bring the best Spanish and Latin American Theatre. She was Artistic Director of the theatre until 2024.
Dramaturg
She has written several plays: El Sillón K (theatre and dance) Cartas Vivas. Carmen Laforet y Elena Fortún (theatre) and 9 Minutes (circus, theatre and dance).
Ballet Dancer
She started her career as a professional ballet dancer when she was 16 years old, dancing in several companies, including Angel Corella Ballet, Ballet Ireland and María Giménez Ballet.
About Me
Paula began her professional career at the age of 16 as a ballet dancer with companies such as Angel Corella Ballet, Maria Gimenez Ballet and Ballet Ireland.
Later on she moved from dance to theatre and studied a Masters Degree in Theatre Directing at Mountivew Academy of Theatre Arts in London under Peter James.
At the age of 27 Paula founded the Cervantes Theatre where she was Artistic Director.
She has directed the following plays:
El Sillón K at Teatro de la Abadía, Bernice by Susan Glaspell at Teatro Español, Love of Don Perlimplín with Belisa in the Garden by Lorca, Cartas Vivas. Carmen Laforet and Elena Fortún, Happiness by Marilia Samper, The House of the Spirits by Caridad Svich after Isabel Allende, Ay, Carmela! by José Sanchis Sinisterra, The Little Pony by Paco Bezerra, The Swallow by Guillem Clua, Darwin’s Tortoise by Juan Mayorga. Knives in Hens by David Harrower at the KC Theatre.
In Opera she has directed Black, el payaso by Pablo Sorozábal at the Arcola Theatre’s Grimeborn Festival and the Cervantes Theatre and has also worked as AD to Mariame Clement in Achille in Sciro at Madrid’s Teatro Real, to Julia Burbach on Das Rheingold at Grimeborn Festival and on L’elisir d’amore at Prague State Opera, The Flying Dutchman at Opera Holland Park and Cinderella at English National Opera.
For TV she has worked as Artistic Coordinator with Emilio Aragón on his 2021 TV show BSO for Movistar+.
Paula also holds a BA Hons in Advertising and Public Relations at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.