Ruth Lawrence’s work as an actor, writer, and filmmaker has taken her to Ireland, France, the US, and across Canada. Her award-winning short Talus & Scree was a national semi-finalist in CBC’s Short Film Face Off, reached #1 in the Short of the Month for February 2015 (with a Best Editor nomination), and was an official selection for the 2014 WIFT International Showcase. Her short films have screened across Canada and the US. Ruth won the 2011 Joan Orenstein Best Actress Award for Clipper Gold at the Atlantic Film Festival and the 2011 RBC Michelle Jackson Award for Emerging Filmmaker for Two Square Feet, starring Jeanne Beker. She was named the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council’s 2011 Artist of the Year and in 2013 was honoured with the Queen’s Jubilee Medal. Since 2014, she has produced three short films for Blue Pinion Films www.bluepinionfilms.com: RBC MJ Award winning shorts, Before the War and The Tour; Quelle Affaire (an iPhone short she also wrote and directed), and is currently in production as a co-producer with Pope Productions on the feature Hunting Pignut, written and directed by Martine Blue.
She is the co-creator and director of the 5-episode webseries Buy the Boards, released March 2014. www.buy-the-boards.com Ruth is also Artistic Director for White Rooster Theatre www.whiteroostertheatre.com