"Her voice is raw, fearless, blunt, unedited, dangerous and passionate. No one is writing about what she writes about."
- Director Cameron Watson
Ruth Iorio Fowler is a Welsh filmmaker, screenwriter, journalist and author living in Los Angeles (and sometimes in Walthamstow, London).
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Ruth has a BA(hons) MA MPhil from Cambridge University where she studied English Literature and dicked around onstage with Footlights and the ADC theatre. She also has an MFA in Film Production from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts which only cost her 200k of crippling debt and three years of (moderate) misery. Ruth teaches ‘Writing One Hour Dramas for TV’, ‘Introduction to Journalism’ and ‘Writing Short Form Non-Fiction’ at UCLA.
Ruth created ‘Little Disasters’, a six part mini-series for Paramount Plus starring Diane Krueger. Ruth’s four-part original TV drama ‘Rules of the Game’, starring Maxine Peake, aired on BBC1 / Hulu. Her eight part miniseries ‘Lady Ghislaine’, based on the life of Ghislaine Maxwell, is currently being developed in the US.
Ruth is currently filming a documentary about domestic violence and the court system (but funny). ‘The Woman is Perfected’, a twenty minute short adapted from her successful play, will start its festival run in Fall 2026. 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 and was screened across the world.
Her play 'bled for the household truth' received its world premiere at LA's Rogue Machine Theatre. '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, PEN, the Writers Guild of Great Britain and the WGA West. Ruth participated in the Sky Studios and Young Vic Stage and Screen Development Program.
Ruth has traveled to over fifty different countries working numerous jobs. These include freelance journalist to top international media outlets, Op-Ed writer for The Guardian and Al Jazeera, and literary essayist for respected publications such as The Rumpus and Guernica. She has also been a server, a deckhand, a dog walker, a private chef to Lisa Vanderpump, a SAT proctor, an expert consultant for training AI LLM’s, a baker and a pole dancer.
Ruth was the recipient of a Leica scholarship to the Palm Springs Photo Festival, and won Best Picture Story for her work on Vegan Activists in the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles' 'Exposures in Journalism' competition. She was honored with the Stiefel-Dockweiler award for documentary 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 more) and has been supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Ruth has exhibited at The Hive Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles. She is a registered member of the Press Photographer's Association (PPA) and the PPAGLA, and shoots both stills and moving image for clients as diverse as the BBC, Alvin Ailey and more.
Ruth studies improv at Groundlings and UCB, writes sketches, occasionally takes to the stage to perform, and is a trained EMT. In case it was not obvious from the above, Ruth is a prime example of severe ADHD.
You can buy Ruth's books on amazon.
Find a (more or less) complete list of Ruth's essays, short stories, journalism and more at contently.
To commission a project or article, purchase a print, license an image or for more info: riorio@ruthiorio.com
