Ruxy is a physical theatre maker born and raised in Moldova (Eastern Europe). This provided her with a grotesque sense of humour, boney elbows, and a desire to celebrate the odd and unusual. She creates original physical theatre in ensemble and by herself and is inspired by highly physical comedy, embarrassing stories and the absurd. She strives to create imaginative intensity-filled original work that explores the bizarre manifestations of our fears and desires. Most of her work lands somewhere between the styles of Clown, Vaudeville, Physical Comedy, Mask, Puppetry and Movement Theatre.
Pickled Republic, a one woman absurdist cabaret set in a pickle jar, draws on her Moldovan roots, her American training and her home in Glasgow, Scotland. It toured Scotland in 2023 to four and five star reviews, featured at the Manipulate festival in 2024 and will now run in the Edinburgh Fringe 2025.
Ruxy has also collaborated with Sarah Rose Graber on a number of successful shows for families / young audiences, including Two in a Barrel, and Unicorn Dance Party, which have both toured Scotland and internationally, and Unicorn Christmas Party (a Christmas commission with Eden Court, Aberdeen Performing Arts and Capital Theatres, alongside producers Raw Material Arts). Working in a variety of styles, Ruxy and Sarah Rose also created THE REFS - an outdoor family-friendly walk-about piece that regularly performs across Scotland and turns public spaces into one big game!
Ruxy also helped devise and performed in Adrenalism's The Good, the Bad and the Poultry, an outdoor show for young audiences about cowboy chickens, which toured Scotland through Creative Scotland's Touring Fund in 2023.
As an educator, Ruxy regularly teaches Movement and mentors Devising projects at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow with the BSL BA Performance Course. She also leads Larval Mask Workshops, of which you can find out more here.
Ruxy received her B.A. in Theatre Arts at Furman University (South Carolina, USA) and her M.F.A. in Ensemble Based Physical Theatre at Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre (California, USA). She also trained in the Michael Chekhov Technique at MICHA in 2021, 2020 and 2019, at LAMDA in their Summer Intensive and Physical Theatre Workshops, in community-based art work with David Diamond, and with Bruce Fertman, Barbara Harrington and the Alexander Technique Teacher Training at the Oregon Center for the Alexander Technique.
Ruxy is a member of Single End Collective, an artist-run space in Southside Studios, Glasgow, co-founded LARDS Ensemble – a collective of Scotland’s five most prominent physical comedians, and is a board member for Articulation and Manipulate Arts.
Feel free to contact Ruxy at the email provided below.
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