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.  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. 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 is a founder member of theatre collective ripple and an associate artist with Dreadnought South West. Ruth is an Associate Lecturer at Plymouth Conservatoire for the B.A.Acting and M.A.Acting courses and a visiting director at Falmouth University.

Since 2013 Ruth has written and performed in three solo shows; Coffee with Vera, Homeward Bound and The Secret Listener. She was a 2020 Lab associate at TRP and her show Invisible Other was performed in the Drum in autumn 2021.

^{Millicent Fawcett in The Cause, photo by Jim Wileman}