Mathilde López is a British theatre and opera director.

She was born in Créteil (suburbs of Paris) grew up in Casablanca and now lives in Cardiff.

With a background in Fine Arts, she worked in design for the BBC, Robert Lepage and Ex-Machina before becoming Assistant Director then Literary Manager at Theatre Royal Stratford East.

She studied at Central Saint Martins, Ecole Philippe Gaulier and later, completed a Master in Theatre Directing from Birkbeck College after which she moved to Wales to start National Theatre Wales with John McGrath, Lucy Davies and Catherine Paskell.

In Cardiff in August 2012 she founded a theatre company, August 012, directing and producing new takes on classic texts, contemporary plays, adaptations and devised work.

Following her interest in Operetta and Zarzuela, she spent some time at the Komische Oper in Berlin, then co-directed La Voix Humaine with David Pountney for Welsh National Opera followed by La Calisto and Carmen for Longborough Opera Festival and more recently Out of Her Mouth for Mahogany Opera, Hera and Dunedin Consort.

Her work is recognisable for its take on space, its original conceptual and aesthetic approach, its urgency, its sense of play and a resemblance of chaos, meticulously constructed.

She sketches and storyboards all her scenes.

She is fluent in English, Spanish and French and is the artistic director of August012.

"One of our most adventurous and visionary directors”   Othniel Smith @ British Theatre Guide