Ruth Cooper-Brown of Rc-Annie Ltd

For the National:

Rc-ANNIE Ltd, the UK’s leading Dramatic Violence and Intimacy Company was established in 2005 by Rachel Bown-Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: A Tupperware of Ashes, The Father and the Assassin, The Welkin, Three Sisters, ANNA, When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Peter Pan, The Threepenny Opera, The James Plays (co-produced with National Theatre of Scotland and Edinburgh International Festival) and Cleansed

In London’s West End: The Pillowman at the Duke of York’s; and To Kill a Mockingbird at Gielgud

Other theatre includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, The Empress, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Henry VI: Rebellion, King John, Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew, Tartuffe and The Duchess of Malfi for the RSC; Antony & Cleopatra, Richard III, The Duchess of Malfi, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Hakawatis, Midsummer Mechanicals, I, Joan, Henry VIII, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Emilia, Othello, Boudica, Lions and Tigers and Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe; Macbeth at the Donmar; The Real Thing at the Old Vic; Bindweed at Colchester Mercury; Twelfth Night at Regent’s Park; Testmatch at the Orange Tree; Bronco Billy at Charing Cross Theatre; Great Expectations at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; Boys from the Blackstuff at Liverpool’s Royal Court, the National Theatre and Garrick; Minority Report at Nottingham Playhouse; Linck & Mülhahn and ‘Night Mother at Hampstead; Noises Off at Theatre Royal Bath and in the West End; Oklahoma! at the Young Vic and in the West End; Newsies at Wesley Troubadour; Baghdaddy at the Royal Court; James IV for Raw Material and Edinburgh Festival Theatre; Never Have I Ever, Crazy for You, The Taxidermist’s Daughter and Plenty at Chichester; As You Like It for CBBC and Shakespeare’s Globe; and It’s Headed Straight Towards Us at Park Theatre

Opera and ballet

Lucia Di Lammermoor and Theodora at the Royal Opera House; and The Scandal at Mayerling for the Scottish Ballet

(Updated September 2024)