SANDRA MATURANA

Sandra is a multilingual director, voice-over artist, actor, and writer based in Spain, fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Basque.

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She studied acting at  the school of Juan Carlos Corazza, she holds a BA in English ( Universidad Complutense) and an MA in Text and Performance Studies from RADA/King’s College London. She is a member of the Directors Lab at Lincoln Center Theater (New York), she completed the Directors Course "Springboard" at the Young Vic (London) and a residency at Odin Teatret (Denmark). She has honed her movement expertise through training  at l’Ecole Internationale de Théâtre de Jacques Lecoq (Paris) and with  physical theatre companies such as Frantic Assembly, Gecko and Complicité.

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Sandra’s directing career spans a wide array of projects. She was a Jerwood Assistant Director at the Young Vic, where she assisted Oliver Mears on My Dad’s a Birdman. Additional assisting credits include Seven Angels with The Opera Group (ROH2 and tour), The Mouse and His Child (RSC), and Hope (Royal Court). As a resident director, she worked on Matilda The Musical in London’s West End. Her directing credits include A Date with Doris at The Riverside Studios, Building Walls at Theatre 503, Alice’s Shadow at the Edinburgh Festival, Love of Don Perlimplin at The Albany, Borderlands at Oval House, and various productions at BAC. She also directed the UK premiere of Mayorga’s Hamlyn as a fellow director at The Space.

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Sandra has extensive experience as a movement director, contributing to productions such as Venus Mars (The Old Red Lion/The Bush), Socrates and His Clouds (Jermyn Street Theatre), Sinbad (Roundhouse), The Government Inspector (Young Vic), Seven Angels (The Opera Group), and Frankenstein: The Metal Opera (The Space).

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As an actor, Sandra has appeared in BBC’s Doctors, Dreamthinkspeak’s In the Beginning Was the End (Somerset House), The House of Bernarda Alba (The Space), Darkness Cycle (The Place), Danae (Sadler’s Wells), and as Tinkerbell in the O2’s production of Peter Pan.

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In recent years, Sandra completed a PhD in Theatre Studies at the University of the Basque Country and in 2025 her first book was published by Dykinson. She combines her work as a theatre researcher with her dynamic pursuits as a theatre-maker, blending academic insight with creative artistry.