RUTH FABBY

Ruth Fabby MBE DL, [formerly Gould]  was born in Liverpool at the very back end of the 1950’s.  At the age of six, it was discovered that she had a ‘deafness gain’ and started to wear hearing aids. As a young woman – despite having some positive school results – was at a loss as to what career to do as everything was barred to her, due to being seen as deaf [and dumb!]

At the age of 22 Ruth started to dance and soon discovered physical theatre & mime.  This led to applying to Liverpool Theatre School where she undertook exams in Dance, Drama, Speech & Drama and Mime.  Since then her career in the arts has grown and developed, firstly as a performer and more latterly as a creative producer and director.

In her mid-30’s, Ruth discovered the wild, rowdy and wonderful work of Disability arts - her eureka moment!  Since then, she has worked in Manchester and Liverpool developing arts projects and events, being more known for the devising DaDaFest, a disability arts festival which has launched the careers of countless disabled and Deaf artists.

Ruth has gained a Master of Arts degree by John Moore’s University studying in Social Enterprise Management in 2010.  In 2015 she was made a deputy Lieutenant for Merseyside, in 2017 she was made a Member of the British Empire, in 2018 she was awarded the status of Fellow at John Moore’s University, Liverpool for all her achievements in Disability Arts

Ruth was thrilled to get the job as Director of DAC in August 2019, and began to work with them full time after she was married at the end of October 2019.   In the future she hopes to turn the world the right way up! as led by the amazing artists and creatives in Cymru/Wales.