Ruth
Pickett

Ruth Pickett is an Emmy-nominated Writer & Director, working across both TV and film, with a particular skill for narrative and character-driven comedy and comedy-drama.

Ruth directed Comedy Central's 6-part digital series, Transaction, which won a Broadcast Digital Award for best short-form scripted; and her award-winning short films and music videos have been accepted into top international and BAFTA affiliated festivals including LOCO, Aesthetica, Underwire, The Smalls, Etheria, Citizen Jane and Hollyshorts.

Ruth’s short film, Wasteland, made in just 48 hours, was the Winner of the Endemol Shine Short Cuts film competition, the prize for which saw her attend the Edinburgh TV festival and be invited to prestigious 'Ones to Watch' events. Her online comedy series Printfriends, which she wrote, directed and edited for Fremantle Media, was nominated for an International Emmy Award in the category of ‘Best Digital Fiction’; her feature script The Opposite of Everything was a finalist in Film London's prestigious Microwave scheme; her short play, A Handful of Dust, was produced at the Vineyard Theatre, Manhattan, as part of the Old Vic Theatre's T.S. Eliot UK / US exchange; and she is a member of female film collective Cinesisters.

Ruth recently worked on the long-running Channel 4 series Hollyoaks, and is currently directing series three of the acclaimed BBC Three comedy Ladhood. 

Ruth's passion is for dark comedy and comedy-drama with a strong, character-driven narrative and a cinematic aesthetic. She believes there is a fine line between tragedy and comedy - it is often in the bleakest of scenarios that our impulse to laugh emerges; and a strong sense of humour can allow difficult subjects to be tackled in an accessible manner – and she strives to always create work that is visually compelling, distinctive and imaginative.