Ruth studied at Rose Bruford College and gained an MRes at the University of Plymouth researching the dramaturgy of site specific solo performance. She was a leading classical actor for over thirty years with four of those years at the Royal Shakespeare Company where she toured the world with Katie Mitchell’s production of Henry VI, receiving a Best Actor nomination for the Manchester Evening News awards for her role as Queen Margaret. Ruth has appeared in the premieres of the award winning new plays, Kindertransport, for the Soho Theatre and Smokefor the Manchester Royal Exchange and in Ted Hughes modern version of Spring Awakeningfor the RSC. She is one of a handful of female actors to have played Hamletin an all female production for Sphinx Theatre Company, a Guardian article on female Hamlets here.
Ruth is a founder member of theatre collective rippleand an associate artist with Dreadnought South West.
Since 2013 Ruth has written and performed four solo shows; Coffee with Vera, Homeward Bound,The Secret Listener.and Invisible Other,which toured in 2021/22 She was a 2021 Lab Associate at the Theatre Royal Plymouth. She works as mentor and dramaturg for other theatre makers and collaborates across the country.
She has taught at the Plymouth Conservatoire since it opened working with the Acting students and MA Acting students.

BA Theatre Arts - Rose Bruford CollegeMRes - University of Plymouth

Equity memberWriters Guild of Great Britain member

Board member of the Barbican Theatre 2000 -2011