Robyn Winfield-Smith

Director Producer Dramaturg


I am a queer stage, screen and immersive director with a hidden disability. I'm Artistic Director of Liminal Stage Productions and Associate Learning Practitioner at the RSC.

I create formally ambitious stage and screen 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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Recent and forthcoming projects include:
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* Young Vic Channel 4 Playwright Lulu Raczka's digital short, GREY MAN
* RSC seed commission, FLEX: a queer love story in live motion capture
* Katie Mitchell's live multi-camera video production of ORLANDO adapted by Alice Birch at the Schaubuehne (1st AD/2nd Unit Director on pre-records)
* Transform Clore Fellowship 2021
* ACE DYCP Award 2019

I was the youngest founding Board member of Stage Directors UK, have been a Trustee of the Directors Charitable Foundation, and am a Directing Tutor at Mountview.
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Credits

DIRECTOR, GREY MAN (Digital Short) Liminal Stage, May 2022
RESIDENT DIRECTOR, AN INSPECTOR CALLS Dir. Stephen Daldry, UK Tour, 2019
DYCP-FUNDED ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, ORLANDO (Premiere) Dir. Katie Mitchell, Schaubuehne Berlin, Sept 2019 (in rep)
DIRECTOR, KING LEAR (PG Acting Students), Mountview Studio, 3 April 2019
DIRECTOR, LOVE & INFORMATION (PG Acting Students), Pleasance Main House, 30 May–2 Jun 2018
DIRECTOR, JUDITH, UK Tour, 5-30 Sep 2017
OBSERVATIONAL ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, 4:48 PSYCHOSIS Dir. Katie Mitchell, Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Mar 2017 (in rep)
DIRECTOR, GIRLS LIKE THAT (3rd Year Acting Students), Guildford School of Acting, Nov 2016
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE 1-week R&D, NT Studio, Jul 2016
DIRECTOR, GREY MAN (Premiere & Transfer), Shakespeare In Shoreditch/RIFT & Theatre503, Apr-Jun 2016
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, HECUBA Dir. Erica Whyman, RSC Swan Theatre, Aug-Oct 2015
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Garsington/RSC/Southbank Centre, July 2015
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, LOVE'S SACRIFICE Dir. Matthew Dunster, RSC Swan Theatre, Apr-Jul 2015
DIRECTOR, ALBAN’S GARDEN (Festival short), ObamAmerica at Theatre 503, Jun 2014
DIRECTOR, HOWARD BARKER DOUBLE BILL, Arcola Studio 2, 25 Nov–19 Dec 2015
Büchner’s WOYZECK, Omnibus Theatre, 19 Nov–7 Dec 2013
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, THE DANCE OF DEATH (Premiere) Strindberg/McPherson, Donmar Trafalgar, Dec 2012-Jan 2013
DIRECTOR, LOT AND HIS GOD (UK Premiere), Print Room, 3–24 Nov 2012

Training

I am a Directing Tutor and Supervisor on the MA Theatre Directing at Mountview Academy for Theatre Arts, as well as a Visiting Lecturer teaching on Katie Mitchell's MA Theatre Directing at Royal Holloway University London.

Courses (lasting a week or more) that I have completed since entering the industry include:

Living Pictures (Ian Rickson & Elen Bowman)
Classical Theatre Workshop (Giles Taylor)
Directing and Designing (Joe Hill-Gibbins)

I have also completed many 1-3 day courses with companies such as Frantic Assembly and Complicite and with practitioners ranging from Anna Morrissey to Tim Crouch.

Location

Warwickshire

Experience

5-10 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • AR / VR
  • Film - feature
  • Film - short
  • Gaming and interactivity
  • Live art
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • New technologies / digital
  • Streaming
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • TV - drama
  • Visual arts

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Movement Direction
  • Music - Can Read
  • Performance Art
  • Producing
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with young people
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

I speak some basic French, German and Italian

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