Biography
Ruth Fowler is a Welsh filmmaker, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and photographer living between London and Los Angeles. Ruth graduated from Cambridge University with a BA(Hons), MA, MPhil, and has an MFA in Film Production from the University of Southern California.
Ruth's four-part original BBC1 TV drama 'Rules of the Game', starring Maxine Peake, aired in 2022. She adapted Sarah Vaughan's 'Little Disasters' into a six part TV series with Roughcut and Paramount+.
Ruth has written and directed numerous short films, including the documentary, 'Fairies Baseball', that premiered at Dances with Films LA at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and 'The Woman is Perfected' based on her play of the same name.
Her play 'bled for the household truth' received its world premiere at LA's highly acclaimed, award winning Rogue Machine Theatre. The play received two Stage Raw Award nominations and was named as one of the best world premieres of the season by Stage Scene LA. 'The Woman is Perfected' premiered at The Hollywood Fringe Festival in The Broadwater LA and was chosen as 'Pick of the Fringe' and 'The Best of Broadwater'. Ruth was appointed a Max. K. Lerner Playwriting Fellow by Inkwell Theatre and her play, 'chickenheads' was workshopped there. 'chickenheads' was also developed as part of the 'Inkubator' playwriting lab at Skylight Theatre, and at the Road Theatre. She is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild, the WGGB and the WGA West.
Ruth participated in the Young Vic Stage and Screen Development Program.
Ruth's photography and journalism has appeared in The LA Times, The Guardian, The Independent, Marie Claire, Wired, Elle, Al Jazeera, The Observer, Slate and has been supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Ruth exhibited at The Hive Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles in the fall of 2018. She is a registered member of the Press Photographer's Association (PPA) and the PPAGLA, and shoots both stills and moving image, film and digital, for clients as diverse as the BBC, Alvin Ailey and more.
