Performance Alumni

Ruthie Baker

Ruthie Baker is an actress, choreographer, coach and founder of Second Fiddle Productions.  Ruthie recently moved to the Twin Cities after nearly 10 years in NYC.  While in New York Ruthie worked at the Manhattan JCC, the Manhattan Theatre Club and was a frequent guest artist with the NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.   Regionally she has worked at the Riverside Theatre (Patty in Sisters of Swing), Totem Pole Playhouse (Sisters of Swing / 45 Seconds from Broadway) and  and Tent Theatre (Doralee Rhodes in 9 to 5 the Musical).   Ruthie has also done two one woman shows in NYC: “Of Mutts and Men” with the NY Theatre Barn and “Long Time Gone: a folk concert" at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.  In Minnesota she has worked at the Guthrie (Pride and Prejudice), the History Theatre (Sisters of Swing,  Christmas of Swing), the MN Fringe Festival (Assassins) and originated the role of Signe in the long running Church Basement Ladies at the Plymouth Playhouse.  Ruthie recently founded Second Fiddle Productions a professional staged reading series that breathes new life into rarely produced musicals.  For more info please visit:  www.ruthiebaker.com  and www.secondfiddleproductions.com