LIMINAL
ADJECTIVE /ˈlɪmɪn(ə)l/
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Occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.
We are an LGBTQIA+ disabled-led Warwickshire-based
stage, screen and immersive company originating ambitious creative content and exhilarating audience experiences at the intersection of live performance and emerging realtime technologies. We collide different media, genres and forms that disrupt the boundaries of stage, screen and the liminal spaces between.
Our work is socially and environmentally conscious, and we celebrate diversity in everything we do.​​
LIMINAL
ADJECTIVE /ˈlɪmɪn(ə)l/
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At a boundary or transitional point between two conditions, stages in a process, ways of life, etc.
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
In 2024 we:
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Received support from the West Midlands Create Growth Programme
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Won a Silver BIMA Award with Target3D for our generative AI digital human sprint supported by Digital Catapult with funding from Innovate UK, culminating in a demo at SXSW 2024
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Provided the keynote speech at Innovate UK’s BridgeAI Programme’s Annual Showcase, along with workshops on assembling skilled AI teams for the 2024 BridgeAI cohort
In 2023 we:
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Were awarded funding from Creative UK’s New Ideas Fund
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Delivered a 2-day VP training event, 'Creative Convergence', for ScreenSkills using funding from Arts Council England, introducing 25 arts + culture professionals to emerging realtime technologies
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Attracted the interest of Hat Trick Productions in our flagship cross-medium spectacle universe
In 2022 we:
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Were selected by The Guardian as "the best digital theatre to stream" with our “brilliantly eerie nailbiter”, GREY MAN, starring Kate O’Flynn
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Were 1 of 8 companies selected for an 8-week intensive virtual production training programme with StoryFutures Academy, Epic Games and ILM
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Were seed-commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company
TEAM LIMINAL
Liminal is a diverse team of innovators committed to the values of inclusion and sustainability that drive our GenZ+GenAlpha audiences, with a robust and wide-ranging network spanning theatre, film, TV/HETV, virtual production (VP)/realtime technologies, genAI, immersive/XR+games.
Since 2021, we've produced a "★★★★ brilliantly eerie nail-biter" (TheGuardian) starring Kate O'Flynn, worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Epic Games and the team behind THE MANDALORIAN (ILM) to develop our groundbreaking live VP show, FLEX, and prototyped a genAI 3D realtime interactive digital comedian with Target3D and Hat Trick Productions. This year, we'll be shooting an immersive demonstrator film for Apple Vision Pro, with funding from Innovate UK.
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Our Founder-Director is Robyn Winfield-Smith, a stage, screen and immersive director, 2021 Transform Clore Fellow and emerging technologies innovator. With 10 years' experience of critically-acclaimed multimedia theatre productions, she's led Liminal's pivot into the screen and immersive industries. Since 2023, Robyn has supported Hat Trick Productions' development of a cross-medium and cross-genre slate, offering expertise in the development of 'spectacle' IP universes, and the application of emerging technologies such as generative AI and other realtime innovations.