Ruth Lehane

Ruth Lehane trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris and the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, Dublin.

Having completed her studies in Paris, she spent a year touring Spain, playing various roles with Bantam Theatre of Barcelona.

Since returning to Dublin, theatre work includes :

• Dog,

• Moby Dan,

• Brilliant Days Blue and Blowfish for Barabbas...the company and

• Tales from Ovid for Theatreworks.

She has performed at the Abbey Theatre in

• The Misogynist and

• The Silver Tassie.

Other credits include

• the Macnas national tour of Diamonds in the Soil,

• The Beggars Opera and Home Free, both at Lombard Street Studio.

Ruth has also appeared in a one-woman show,

• Circus Dances, at The Irish Arts Centre, New York, and as

• Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days in Berlin.

Ruth's last appearance at the Galway Arts Festival was with, Les Idiots Volante, in a production of La Surprise du Ciel.