Kindertransport by Diane Samuels – Helga – Soho Theatre Co Dir.The Mysteries Mary Magdelen – Royal Shakespeare Co, Dir Katie Mitchell.Rutherford & Son by Githa Sowerby – Janet – Salisbury Playhouse, Dir.Not the End of the World Ama- Bristol Old Vic, adapted & Dir.Drive in Deco, Gloria, Site specific performance, Part Exchange co, Dir Rachel Aspinwall ( Vice Chancellor’s Enterprise award, Plymouth University).Coffee with Vera a solo sited performance Exeter Ignite festival ( winner of the 2014 Wildfire Critics Choice award).Horizontal Collaboration UN lawyer-Traverse Theatre, David Leddy, Fire Exit.White Rabbit, Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour- Bike Shed Exeter, part of the Molino Group’s art:weapon residency.Homeward Bound a solo performance commissioned by Theatre West, & Arts Council funded tour.

The Cause by Natalie McGrath – Millicent Fawcett – Dreadnought SW.

The Secret Listener an Arts Council funded performance.

Millicent Fawcett in The Cause, photo by Jim Wilemanįreelance theatre work as an actor includes Since 2013 Ruth has written and performed in three solo shows Coffee with Vera, Homeward Bound and The Secret Listener. She is a 2020 Lab Associate at the Theatre Royal Plymouth and is working on a new show, which will be performed in the Drum at the Theatre Royal in 2021. Ruth is also an associate lecturer at Plymouth Conservatoire for the B.A. Ruth is a founder member of theatre collective ripple and an associate artist with Dreadnought South West. She is one of a handful of female actors to have played Hamlet in an all female production for Sphinx Theatre Company, a Guardian article on female Hamlets here. Ruth has appeared in the premieres of the award winning new plays, Kindertransport, for the Soho Theatre and Smoke for the Manchester Royal Exchange and in Ted Hughes modern version of Spring Awakening for the RSC.

Ruth has been a leading actor for over twenty -five years for four of those years she was with the Royal Shakespeare Company and 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.

White Oak by Ruth Mitchell