COMING TO THE ASSEMBLY ROOMS, EDINBURGH, FROM 6TH-30TH AUGUST 2026

In collaboration between Andy Jordan Productions & Persistent Turtle.

SYNOPSIS

Dr Ruth Westheimer shattered taboos, making possible frank public conversations about sex and intimacy. With a twinkle in her eye and an infectious giggle, her wise, disarming advice made her into an unlikely household name. This funny and moving solo play charts her astonishing journey from escaping Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport to international celebrity at 50 as TV’s most beloved sex therapist. At just 4’7″, her larger-than-life story proves size doesn’t matter. Broadway’s Anne O’Sullivan ‘keeps us hanging on every word’ (New York Times) and ‘leaves you laughing until your sides ache’ (Chronogram Magazine). It now makes its UK premiere.

Watch the ‘Becoming Dr Ruth’ Show Trailer below:

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MEET THE TEAM BEHIND ‘BECOMING DR RUTH’

Dr Ruth Westheimer – Anne O’Sullivan

Anne O’Sullivan celebrates nearly 50 years as a professional actor, on and off Broadway, and in regional theatres around the country. She has been privileged to  perform the works of many great writers among them- “Dickens and  Shakespeare”, as well as Chekhov, Moliere, Noel Coward, Eugene Ionesco, Henrik Ibsen,  Sean O’Casey, Ben Hecht , James Joyce, David Lindsay-Abaire, Martin McDonagh,  John Patrick Shanley, David Ives, Jose Rivera (who wrote 3 roles for her), and of  course, our esteemed Mark St. Germain. This is the sixth production Ms.  O’Sullivan has had the honor to perform the story of our late, great Dr. Ruth’s epic  life-her valiant mission of love. And Anne’s fourth joyous collaboration with  director Stephen Nachamie. Ms. O’Sullivan is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre in NYC for 40 years, and a  proud member of the Actors Equity Association.

Her TV and film credits include 6 Law & Order‘s; Sex and the City; The Flight  Attendant; Red Oaks; The Deuce; Cosby; ER; Models, Inc; Speed; The Mirror Has  Two Faces (dir. B. Streisand); and the newly released horror film, The Home  starring Pete Davidson, John Glover, and Jessica Hecht.

Director- Stephen Nachamie

Stephen Nachamie is an award-winning Stage and Film Director currently developing new works for stage and screen. His work ranges from intimate plays to large scale musicals, concerts and TV events and even the Macy’s Parade. Mr. Nachamie has developed new works with Goodspeed Opera House, NYU Graduate
Musical Theatre Writing Program, Berklee NYC, NAMT, NYMF and others. Over his career, he has had the pleasure of working with celebrities such as Alan Menken, Kellie Pickler, Mickey Guyton, Carolee Carmello, Laura Benanti, Jane Krakowski, Gavin Creel, Sutton Foster, John Wesley Shipp, Peter Gallagher, Kaye Ballard, Faith Prince, Nikki M. James, Whoopi Goldberg and Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer to name a few. A full list of Mr. Nachamie’s credits is available on his website: http://www.stephennachamie.com.

Writer – Mark St. Germain

Mark St. Germain is the award-winning writer of Freud’s Last Session (Off Broadway Alliance Award), which he adapted into the film starring Anthony Hopkins. His other plays include The God Committee, also made into a film, Camping with Henry and Tom (Outer Critics Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award), Forgiving Typhoid Mary (Time Magazine’s “Year’s Ten Best”), Becoming Dr Ruth,  the story of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Eleanor, Best of Enemies, Ears on a Beatle, Scott and Hem, Relativity and Out of Gas on Lover’s Leap. With Randy Courts, they have written the musicals Gifts of the Magi, Johnny Pye and Jack’s Holiday. Mark has also written Stand by your Man, The Tammy Wynette Musical, for the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. With John Markus he wrote The Fabulous Liptones. He co-wrote the screenplay for Carroll Ballard’s Warner Brothers film, Duma. He directed and co-produced the documentary, My Dog, An Unconditional Love Story, featuring Richard Gere, Glenn Close and Billy Collins among others. Television credits include The Cosby Show and Dick Wolf’s Crime and Punishment. He wrote the award winning children’s book Three Cups.

Mark is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Writer’s Guild East. He is a board member of the Great Barrington Public Theater. In 2010, Barrington Stage named their second stage  “The St. Germain Stage.”