Research & Development
Ruth’s practice based research spans a 25 year career as a theatre designer, with devising and making at its core. Her body of work has been mostly made in response to music and opera, using painting and sculptural elements to underpin narrative.
Research and Development: Don’t Step on the Cracks – Composer Laura Bowler, Librettist Sam Redway, Director Rebecca Meltzer Linbury Studio, RBO Youth Opera Company 2026
DYCP bursary recipient: Study of the intersection between opera, participation, climate and social justice – Arts Council England, 2021-22
Residency: Using stories to affect positive change – Cove Park, Argyll and Bute, February 2022
Research and Development: My Neighbour Totoro – Royal Shakespeare Company, 2021 https://www.significantobject.com/current/totoro
Research and Development with Mark Down at Blind Summit, 2013-2021:
Research and Development: The Promise – Working with writer Nicola Davies, Composer Daniel Saleeb, Director Lucy Bradley and Designer Sasha Gilmour, an R and D residency at Wild Rumpus. 2020
Puppet Research and Development: L’Orfeo – Princeton University, Fall term, 2018
Research and Development with Phelim McDermott: Improbable/ Royal National Theatre Studio, 2018
