Ruth Iorio Fowler

"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 living between London and Los Angeles.

In between arts degrees (Cambridge, USC) and poverty she’s also traveled to over fifty different countries working numerous jobs - including deckhand, private chef to Lisa Vanderpump, and pole dancer. Ruth teaches ‘Writing One Hour Dramas for TV’ at UCLA.

Ruth writes screenplays, plays, journalism and literature under the name Ruth Fowler.

Ruth’s four-part original TV drama ‘Rules of the Game’, starring Maxine Peake, aired in 2022 on BBC1 / Hulu. She adapted Sarah Vaughan’s novel ‘Little Disasters’ into a six part mini-series for Paramount Plus, to be aired in 2025. Her eight part miniseries ‘Lady Ghislaine’, based on the life of Ghislaine Maxwell, is currently being developed in the US with Chloe Dan (‘Dopesick’) and Allie Goss (‘The Crown’).

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 in 2021 and was screened at over fifteen different festivals across the world. Ruth is currently filming a documentary about domestic violence and the court system, and is in prep for her next short which shoots in March 2025.

Her play 'bled for the household truth' received its world premiere at LA's highly acclaimed, award winning Rogue Machine Theatre in 2018. 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 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 in 2020.

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 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 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.

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

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