Ruth Lawrence(I)

Ruth Lawrence is a director/writer/actor in film, theatre, and opera. In 2020, her first narrative feature, Little Orphans (2020) (Imagine That Productions), a micro-budget, premiered in Galas across Canada and won the Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature at Whistler Film Festival. The award-winning comedy Party Pirate was her next feature in 2023. Ruth was one of the writer-directors on the 2018 portmanteau feature, Hopeless Romantic (2018) (Northeast Productions). Her documentaries include A Lot of Love in the Room, Circus by Komatik (2019) (Fire Crown Productions), and Finding Grace: A Soul Song. She directed The Ennis Sisters music video, The Ennis Sisters: Your Light (2018), to mark the 100th Anniversary of the CMHA. Her short films include Talus and Scree (2013) and Sweet Pickle (2009). Ruth co-produced the feature Hunting Pignut (2016), winner of two best feature awards, with Pope Productions. She was director on several web series including What Odds, The Adventures of Gary and Lou, produced all four seasons with Mary Walsh on her internationally acclaimed series, The Missus Downstairs, and directed her first web series, Buy the Boards (2014) by Luke Lawrence and Matt Wright.