Hey hey! And welcome.

 

I'm a queer Warwickshire-based screen, live cinema and immersive director with a hidden disability and an irrepressible sense of creativity and humour. I'm Founder-Director of Liminal Stage Productions, Theatre & Emerging Technologies Lead at Hat Trick Productions (DERRY GIRLS, TRIGGER POINT, HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU), and Associate Learning Practitioner at the RSC, as well as a Transform Clore Fellow (2021).

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I create formally ambitious stage, screen and immersive productions that explore the interplay between different media, genres & forms, and that interrogate alternative perspectives in order to tell urgent, powerful stories about what it means to be human.

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In 2024:

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• Liminal jointly won a British Interactive Media Association Silver Award for developing a digital comedian exploring the ethical implications of using generative AI to create composite digital characters

• Liminal was awarded Innovate UK funding to shoot a 'vertical slice' of our immersive experience, THE PRESENT

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In 2023:

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• ScreenSkills commissioned Liminal to deliver a 2-day Creative Convergence workshop training arts and culture professionals in virtual production techniques

• Hat Trick Productions tasked me with researching and developing ways of harnessing emerging technologies to help us tell stories in new ways and reach new audiences.

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In 2022:

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• The Royal Shakespeare Company seed-commissioned my live multi-camera Virtual Production (VP) show, FLEX, a queer love story exploring disability as superpower

• Industrial Light & Magic + Epic Games selected Liminal for a competitive 8-week VP training scheme funded by StoryFutures Academy

• The Guardian hailed my ★★★★ “sharply directed and brilliantly eerie nailbiter”, GREY MAN: A Stage And Screen Experiment (commissioned by The Space and starring Kate O’Flynn), as the best digital theatre to stream in December 2022: https://www.liminalstage.com/greyman

In 2021 I undertook a year's Fellowship with the Clore Leadership Programme, investigating how to better join up the creative and digital industries. In 2019 I completed an Arts Council England-funded residency as 1st AD/2nd Unit Director on Katie Mitchell's live multi-camera video production of ORLANDO adapted by Alice Birch at the Schaubuehne.

 

Previously, I trained at the RSC with Deputy Artistic Director Erica Whyman, at Donmar Trafalgar, and at the Print Room with Lucy Bailey. My selection of award-nominated shows include my "exhilarating and provoking" & “technically inventive” (The Stage) HOWARD BARKER DOUBLE BILL at Arcola (2015), my ACE-funded centennial adaptation of WOYZECK launching Omnibus (2013), and my "shrewd, searching production" of LOT AND HIS GOD played at The Print Room (2012) to critical acclaim.

 

I was the youngest founding Board member of Stage Directors UK, have been a Trustee of the Directors Charitable Foundation, and regularly teach and direct at drama schools and universities across the UK.

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