Ruth Meehan is a writer/director who has been creating multiple award-winning & nominated work for both film and television in Ireland and Britain since the early 2000’s. She is a graduate of the NFTS in London (MA in Screenwriting) where her short film Numb, received a special commendation at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

Ruth’s first short after college, And The Red Man Went Green was funded by Universal Studios, London won several major prizes including the Special Jury Prize at the Tehran Film Festival; the Prix Canal+ at Brest; the Depict Award at the Encounters Short Film Festival in the UK; and the Kodak Prize, Raindance Film Festival UK. Her short film Lilou, won the Judges Award at the 30 second film festival at the Galway Film Fleadh. Her other short films, The Measure Of A Man and Men And Women (an adaption of a short story by Clare Keegan) were both screened at the Galway Film Festival and as part of RTE’s Shortscreen strand.

Adventurous by nature and with a nose for a good story, over the course of her career, Ruth has travelled the world making hard hitting and award-winning documentaries for RTE, including the groundbreaking social documentary series, What In The World, the daunting, Hostile Environment, presented by Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones) and the adventure that was Traveller’s Guide to The Amazon. She has also directed numerous hours of arts and travel programming for RTE.

Ruth has developed four feature films with funding from Screen Ireland including her debut feature film, The Bright Side (2020). The Bright Side was the recipient of the Audience Award at the 2020 Cork International Film Festival, the Jury Award Honorable Mention at the Sonoma International Film Festival in California and the Grand Logis, Prix du Public in Rennes in Brittany in 2022. It had its theatrical release in Ireland in August 2021 and is available online on Amazon Prime in Ireland and the UK.

More recently Ruth has been focusing on directing tv drama along with developing a number of feature films. She cut her teeth on the highly popular, Virgin Media crime drama series, ‘Red Rock’ for Element Pictures and thoroughly enjoyed a stint in 2022 directing on the Lionsgate financed drama series, ‘Northern Lights’ for Deadpan Pictures, Dublin. She is currently in development with three feature films for Rimsky Productions, London, Calico Pictures, Dublin and O’ Sullivan Productions, Wicklow along with adapting, Kathleen McMahon’s, Nothing But Blue Sky for the screen.

As a creativity consultant, Ruth is a co-facilitator on Aligning With Flow, creativity retreats supported by Screen Ireland and coaches acting students at Bow Street Acting Academy, The Lir Academy, Dublin, MA students in Film at IADT, Dublin and students of the media programme at Queens University Belfast. Ruth is also an active board member of The Screen Director’s Guild of Ireland, and a member of the Writer’s Guild of Ireland and Women in Film and TV, Ireland.