Ruth Fowler(III)
- Writer
- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
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.
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 ITV.
Ruth directed and produced 'Fairies Baseball", a short documentary on older ballet dancers that premiered at Dances with Films LA at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on August 29th 2021 and will also be screened at the Wales International Film Festival and Cannes Short Film Festival.
Ruth's work as second camera / production assistant on 'The Real Michael Jackson', directed by Jacques Peretti was aired in April 2020 on BBC2.
Her play 'bled for the household truth' received its world premiere at LA's highly acclaimed, award winning Rogue Machine Theatre in 2017 and ran for three months. 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 2018 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 in the fall of 2018. 'chickenheads' was also developed as part of the 2019 'Inkubator' playwriting lab at Skylight Theatre, and at the Road Theatre. She is a proud member of Antaeus Theatre's Playwrights Lab, The Dramatists Guild, the NNPX, PEN, the WGGB and the WGA West.
Ruth participated in the 2020 Sky Studios and Young Vic Stage and Screen Development Program.
As a screenwriter for both TV and film, Ruth has been commissioned by Faber Pictures, The Forge, Sony, Universal Pictures, Ruby Pictures, Channel 4, Film 4, BBC1, Sky, Cuba Pictures and more.
Ruth was the recipient of a Leica scholarship to the Palm Springs Photo Festival in 2017, and won Best Picture Story for her work on Vegan Activists in the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles' 'Exposures in Journalism' competition 2018. She was recently honored with the Stiefel-Dockweiler award for photography by Santa Monica College. Her 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.
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 ITV.
Ruth directed and produced 'Fairies Baseball", a short documentary on older ballet dancers that premiered at Dances with Films LA at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on August 29th 2021 and will also be screened at the Wales International Film Festival and Cannes Short Film Festival.
Ruth's work as second camera / production assistant on 'The Real Michael Jackson', directed by Jacques Peretti was aired in April 2020 on BBC2.
Her play 'bled for the household truth' received its world premiere at LA's highly acclaimed, award winning Rogue Machine Theatre in 2017 and ran for three months. 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 2018 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 in the fall of 2018. 'chickenheads' was also developed as part of the 2019 'Inkubator' playwriting lab at Skylight Theatre, and at the Road Theatre. She is a proud member of Antaeus Theatre's Playwrights Lab, The Dramatists Guild, the NNPX, PEN, the WGGB and the WGA West.
Ruth participated in the 2020 Sky Studios and Young Vic Stage and Screen Development Program.
As a screenwriter for both TV and film, Ruth has been commissioned by Faber Pictures, The Forge, Sony, Universal Pictures, Ruby Pictures, Channel 4, Film 4, BBC1, Sky, Cuba Pictures and more.
Ruth was the recipient of a Leica scholarship to the Palm Springs Photo Festival in 2017, and won Best Picture Story for her work on Vegan Activists in the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles' 'Exposures in Journalism' competition 2018. She was recently honored with the Stiefel-Dockweiler award for photography by Santa Monica College. Her 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.
