Ruth Lichtman

Ruth is a director and producer of film, audio, and theater. Her Emmy-nominated films have appeared in numerous film festivals and media outlets including The Atlantic, The Huffington Post and The New York Times. You may have seen her animations in global ad campaigns for Apple Music and Amazon Music. At Penguin Random House, Ruth has directed audiobooks with narrators including Julianne Moore, Miranda July, Nick Offerman, Phoebe Robinson and Hannah Gadsby and has received multiple Audie Award nominations. Ruth has also produced a number of podcasts, including genre-breaking Limetown, and Crooked Media’s The Wilderness, a podcast investigating the Democratic Party in 2016, which culminated with an interview of President Barack Obama.

At Woodward, she plans to develop Moldy Mary, an animated film about the discovery of a cantaloupe that changed modern medicine.