Ruth LeHane

Ruth Lehane is an award-winning actress, theatre maker, movement director, and clown practitioner, with a passion for physical theatre and the Theatre of Clown. She trained at The Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin, and further honed her craft at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, where she studied for two years and later at The Theatre Resource Centre in Toronto.

Ruth’s career spans a wide range of theatrical styles, from text-based theatre to highly physical performances. She has collaborated with prestigious companies like The Abbey Theatre, The Lyric, Barabbas, Blue Raincoat, and Cahoots NI, and has toured internationally to cities such as London, New York, Barcelona, and Berlin.

As the founder of Fourth Leaf Theatre Company, Ruth creates Clown Theatre that challenges and delights audiences. She also teaches at The Lir Academy, The Gaiety School of Acting, and The Abbey Theatre Skills for Business Programme, drawing on her expertise in the methodologies of Jacques Lecoq and the disciplines of Clown, Neutral Mask, and Gestural Language.

In addition to her theatre work, Ruth is a sought-after movement director and intimacy coordinator for theatre, film and TV, with recent projects including Award winning, “THE HOLE IN THE GROUND”; “SOULM8TE” “VIVARIUM”; “BIRD”; “SMALL TOWN BIG STORY”; “LYNLEY”; “WEDNESDAY”;
“FAIR CITY” “CAPTIVATED”; “STAGS”

For more info visit www.RuthLehane.com