Ana Cuéllar studied musical theater directing at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin and clarinet at the Musikene (Conservatory of Music in Basque Country). In 2021 she directed the premiere of the chamber opera Unser Vater/Vater unser (Sergey Kim) at the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper and La serva padrona (G.B.Pergolesi) at the Teatre Principal (Mallorca). Since 2017 she has worked internationally with directors such as Calixto Bieito, Immo Karaman and Marta Pazos in different theaters such as Staatsoper Unten den Linden, Staatstheater Mainz, DNT Weimar, La Bastille Paris, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Liceu de Barcelona or Teatre Principal de Palma. Since 2020 she has been working as a director with the opera company Novoflot. She was a fellow of the Young Woman Opera Makers Residency of the Académie des Festival d’Aix-en-Provence from 2021-2022, where she was mentored by Katie Mitchell. In the future, she will direct an updated version of King Arthur (H.Purcell) with the baroque orchestra Ars Musicae.