Tania Azevedo is a Portuguese theatre director, dramaturg, and creative leader whose work spans new musicals, contemporary reimaginings, and LGBTQ+ storytelling. She is a graduate of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, the Royal Opera House’s JPA Opera Directors Programme (led by Katie Mitchell), and the NT Directors Course and is currently Creative Development Associate for Stage Entertainment International. She has worked as Resident and International Associate Director on the West End’s & Juliet and Guest Artistic Director at the King’s Head Theatre. Her production of But I’m a Cheerleader (Turbine Theatre) - the world premiere musical adaptation of the cult LGBTQ+ film - earned her Off-West End Awards and Broadway World Award nominations for Best Director, alongside winning the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off-West End Production. Select directing credits: Ballad Lines (Southwark Playhouse); Spring Awakening (Bernie Grant Arts Centre/Urdang); Into the Woods and Rent (ArtsEd); Mayflies (York Theatre Royal); Songs for Slutty Girls (The Other Palace); A Mother’s Song (Macrobert Arts Centre); It’s Only Life (Union Theatre); Toyboy Diaries (Hope Mill Theatre); Tenderly (New Wimbledon Theatre); Paper Hearts (Upstairs at the Gatehouse, International tour); and Hello Again (Hope Theatre). She was also Assistant Director on Heathers (West End/UK Tour) and Associate Director on In Dreams (Leeds Playhouse/Mirvish Theatre).