Ruth is a puppeteer, musician and actor, currently appearing monthly at Brasserie Zedel in the extraordinary adult puppet cabaret The Clementine Show! Other recent work includes: Sarah & Duck’s Big Top Birthday (Polka/MEI); Clementine’s Christmas Special – Live @ Zedel; The Walthamstow Mysteries (dir. by Steve Tiplady). Also: Dogs Don’t Do Ballet (Little Angel Theatre); Moominsummer Madness (Polka/Royal & Derngate); Puppetry Director and original cast for In The Night Garden Live (Minor Ent/BBC Worldwide); A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Little Angel/Kneehigh); The Tempest (Little Angel/RSC); Horrid Henry – Live and Horrid! (Watershed Productions/Trafalgar Studios); Danny the Champion of the World (Birmingham Stage Company – being Dr Spencer & learning to make very convincing chicken noises) and The Mouse Queen (Little Angel/Monstro – puppeteering Tilly Mouse and becoming addicted to cheese).
Ruth Calkin
