Ruth Trippitt

Ruth is a writer, story producer, and script editor with over fifteen years’ experience across production and development. Her spec script, SIREN, was a Top 15 finalist for Outstanding Screenplays and a Final Draft Big Break Semifinalist. Her first feature screenplay, PRAYING FOR HANNAH, was a Top 5 finalist for the Save the Cat! Screenplay Challenge. She also wrote the television pilot VICTORIA II, which reached third place in The Script Lab’s screenplay contest.

She was a story producer on DEATH VALLEY S2 (BBC Studios Comedy) and script edited three series of GRACE (Tall Story Pictures/ITV). Additional script editing credits include CHLOE (Mam Tor Productions/BBC), THE LAST BUS (Wildseed Studios/Netflix), and BRIEF ENCOUNTERS (CPL Productions/ITV).

She began her career as an intern at See-Saw Films and has worked in-house at Bentley Productions, CPL, and as a Comedy Development Producer at What Larks! Productions.

Ruth also spent 2017–2019 living and working in Toronto, Canada, where she was a story coordinator on NORTHERN RESCUE (DCTV/Netflix) and worked as a producer’s assistant for Don Carmody.

In 2025, she received Arts Council funding to develop her writing projects and completed a Master’s in Writing for Script and Screen at Falmouth University. She is also a graduate of the National Film and Television School’s Scripted Development Diploma. In addition to screenwriting, she is a novelist and is currently writing her first book, which she developed on the Curtis Brown 'Writing Your Novel' six-month course.