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 Founding Artistic Director of Liminal Stage Productions, Theatre & Emerging Technologies Lead at Hat Trick Productions (DERRY GIRLS, TRIGGER POINT), and Associate Learning Practitioner at the RSC, as well as a Transform Clore Fellow (2021).

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I specialise in the development of transmedia ‘spectacle’ IP universes that harness emerging technologies – in realtime virtual production, spatial entertainment, genAI and more – to exhilarate the audiences of the future with new more immersive, interactive and spatially embodied experiences that bring visibility to the unseen and voice to the unheard.

 

This year my company Liminal Stage Productions has activated the CoSTAR National Lab's Futures Studio with an R&D process for a live VP-enabled theatre show, and has been awarded Innovate UK funding with which to create an immersive experience for Apple Vision Pro. Next year, we will be expanding this experience to reach wider audiences, while also developing our XR character, 'Rox'.

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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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