Cast
Ruth Madoff Emily Swain
Creatives
Writer, Director, & Producer
Roger Steinmann
Assistant Director
Kathleeen Murtagh
​​British Dramaturge Adviser
Ruth Ahmed
Marketing
Brenda Sabryna
Ilona Stern
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Press Rep
Matthew Parker
Set Designer
Charlie San Myint
Stage Artwork
Pai Koomphi
Graphic Designer
Vy Miracle
Administrative Assistant
Ruth Meier
Management WinWinProdutions
Luigi A. Fischer
Management Arches Lane Theatre
Leo Bacica
Roger Steinmann
Author, Director & Producer
Roger Steinmann is a Swiss director and producer who is the auteur of his own Hollywood films and theatre.
Born on 6 November 1961, he began making Super-8 films at the age of eight. Among his many award-winning short films in his youth, DIE TÜRE and DIE FLUTKATASTROPHE were broadcast on Swiss national television in 1976 and 1978, respectively.
In the 1980s, Steinmann turned to theatre, and in the 90s back to film and to Hollywood. His best-known work is ILLUSION INFINITY (2004), starring Dee Wallace (E.T.), Mickey Rooney (Night at the Museum), Barbara Carrera (Never Say Never Again), and Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Show).
In 2017, Steinmann began shooting PHONY, an ambitious feature film set across various international locations. Filming in Switzerland, as a stand-in for the snowy Canadian landscape, and in tropical Thailand. The final segment, which starred Burt Reynolds, Talia Shire, and Faye Dunaway, had to be cancelled following Reynolds' untimely death; it was further impeded by the Covid-19 pandemic.
During this period, Steinmann returned to theatre and wrote the social-distancing satire WIN=WIN, which, in 2022, he produced and directed in Switzerland.
His play TEUFELSKREIS, adapted in English as RUTHLESS: The tragic Survival of Ruth Madoff, will premiere in London on 3 June 2025, with Steinmann again as producer and director.
Further original stage plays include twin and triplet mistaken-identity crime-comedy WENN DER DRILLING MIT DER ZWILLING, and the post-digital-dystopian satire w.w.STEINZEIT. The latter's English adaptation, w.w.STONEAGE, is in preparation for a 2026 premiere in London.
Steinmann was educated at the Swiss Business School. Since 1984, he continues to preside over a shareholder company—at the time, he was the youngest person in Switzerland to do so. Steinmann divides his time between his native Switzerland and his self-imposed ‘exile’ in Phuket, where he runs a boutique hotel. A seasoned world traveller, he speaks eight languages, including French, Spanish, and Thai.
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Emily Swain
as Ruth Madoff
Emily Swain is an Anglo-Irish actor, filmmaker, and voice artist, recently starring as Queen Eloise in Royal-ish - a Hallmark original movie (2025). With a career spanning television, major streaming platforms, stage, and independent film, Swain has built a rich and varied body of work across the UK and internationally.
Raised in Sussex, and holding dual UK-Irish citizenship, Swain brings an international outlook, shaped by living in France and Italy. Before training professionally at The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) in London, she studied at Plater College, Oxford and the Sorbonne in Paris, becoming fluent in French. She has performed across Europe and Australia (Sydney Theatre Company), and toured Pakistan for the British Council.
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Screen Credits Include:
BBC, ITV - Grace (2025), Code of Silence (2025), Channel 4, Channel 5, Hulu - The Heritage (Bite Size Halloween), Netflix - Netflix original film Dunki with Bollywood Star Shah Rukh Khan, What About Me - winner of Best Short Film at the 2024 Royal Television Society Southern Awards.
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Stage Credits Include:
West End, national and international tour of of Mike Bartlett’s multi award-winning King Charles III (for the Almeida Theatre Company), an all-female A Scandal in Bohemia staged in Pakistan, The Life and Times of Jelly Roll Morton, performed at Chichester Festival Theatre’s Minerva Studio (2025).
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Filmmaker and Writing Credits Include:
The Shriving, Problème d’Étang, and Verses from Diamond Hill - showcased at Independent Shorts Awards, Indie Shorts Fest Los Angeles, East End Film Festival, Bloomsday Dublin, and two IFTA-affiliated festivals. She is deeply committed to socially conscious storytelling.
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Beyond acting, Swain’s path has been anything but conventional. She took a sabbatical from the industry to work in journalism, defence, hospice care-work and human rights - experiences she credits with deepening her understanding of the world. Highlights include interviewing The Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace, working on a Cherie Blair charitable event at No.10 and scaling the US gigantic aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in gale-force winds off Stokes Bay. These experiences, she says, “recycle back into the work - nothing is ever wasted.”​
Born into a family of theatre and screen actors — Cherry Morris and Mike Murray, whose careers spanned the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre, film and British television — Swain continues a creative tradition of combining craft with adventure and substance. Her maternal great-grandfather, George Armstrong, was part of the 19th-century mapping of Western and Eastern Palestine with Lt. Kitchener for the Palestine Exploration Fund.
Emily Swain is married to British landscaper and artist Graham Swain (artswain.com) and divides her time between Sussex and Ibiza.
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