BIOGRAPHY

Ruth Cooper-Brown

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RC-Annie Ltd, established in 2005 by Rae Bown-Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown, is the UK’s leading Dramatic Violence Company. 

Previous work at Shakespeare’s Globe includes: Hakawatis; As You Like It (Globe on Tour); Romeo and Juliet; Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank – Macbeth; Macbeth; Emilia; Othello; The Secret Theatre; Boudica; Lions and Tigers; Much Ado About Nothing; Twelfth Night; Comus; Imogen; and The Little Matchgirl with Bristol Old Vic.

Other theatre credits include: Henry VI Rebellion & Henry VI Wars of the Roses, Henry VI Part 1 Rehearsal Room Project, King John, Measure for Measure, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, Tartuffe, The Duchess of Malfi, Salome & Snow in Midsummer (RSC); Theodora (Royal Opera House); Persuasion (Rose Theatre Kingston); 2:22 A Ghost Story (West End); The Play What I Wrote (Birmingham Rep & Tour);The Life of Pi (Wyndham Theatre); Blue/Orange (Theatre Royal Bath); Beauty and the Beast (Theatr Clwyd); ‘Night Mother (Hampstead Theatre); East is East (Birmingham Rep/National Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre); Once Upon A Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia (Almeida Theatre); The Welkin, Three Sisters, Anna, When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Common, Ugly Lies the Bone, Peter Pan, The Threepenny Opera, Cleansed (National Theatre); The James Plays (co-production with National Theatre of Scotland and Edinburgh International Festival); The Prince of Egypt (Dreamworks at The Dominion Theatre); A Monster Calls (Old Vic Productions National Tour); Wise Children (Wise Children & The Old Vic); A Monster Calls, Woyzeck (Old Vic); Alone in Berlin (Royal and Derngate); [BLANK] (Donmar Warehouse); Macbeth, Plenty (Chichester Festival Theatre); Hedda Tesman (Headlong/Chichester Festival Theatre/The Lowry); The King of Hell’s Palace (Hampstead Theatre); Peter Pan (National Theatre); Troubadour (White City Theatre); Noises Off (Lyric Hammersmith & West End); The Night of the Iguana (Noel Coward Theatre); Hobson’s Choice (Manchester Royal Exchange); King Hedley (Theatre Royal Stratford East); A Very, Very, Very Dark Matter (The Bridge Theatre); Company (Elliot Harper Productions at The Gielgud Theatre); Europe (Leeds Playhouse); God of Carnage, The Price, Switzerland & Dusty (Theatre Royal Bath).