- Robyn Winfield-Smith is a stage, screen and XR director based in the UK (https://www.robynwinfieldsmith.com/portfolio).
Her 2022 Digital R&D Commission for The Space, 'Grey Man: A Stage And Screen Experiment' - written by Channel 4 Playwright Lulu Raczka and starring Kate O'Flynn - was praised by The Guardian as "a sharply directed and brilliantly eerie nailbiter" and was selected as the best digital theatre to stream in December 2022.
Robyn is currently (2023) developing a live multi-camera VP show, Flex, a queer love story exploring disability as superpower through live motion capture. This production has been seed-commissioned by The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and is receiving support from Epic Games and Creative UK following its initial development through the StoryFutures Academy's 8-week VP Futures Development Zone with ILM and Epic Games.
Artistic Director of LGBTQ+ disabled-led multimedia production company Liminal Stage Productions (https://www.liminalstage.com), she is a 2021 Clore Fellowship winner, a Consultant Freelancer and Associate Learning Practitioner at the RSC and teaches directing at a number of UK drama schools and universities.
In 2019 Robyn worked as First Assistant and Second Unit Director for British theatre director Katie Mitchell on her live multi-camera video production of Alice Birch's adaptation of Orlando at the Schaubühne, following a 10-year career in theatre, directing "exhilarating and provoking" (The Stage) productions on the British stage.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Robyn Winfield-Smith
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