Carrie Ruth Trumbo is a native Floridian, and received her formal training at the Orlando Ballet School. Upon graduating, she spent a season as a trainee with Charlotte Ballet studying with Patricia McBride and Mark Diamond. The following year she joined Tulsa Ballet’s second company, where she spent two seasons before being promoted to the main company in 2011. While with Tulsa Ballet, Carrie Ruth performed repertoire by Twyla Tharp, Ronald Hynd, George Balanchine, Ben Stevenson, Edwaard Liang, and John Cranko. She then joined Ballet Des Moines in its inaugural season, where she performed soloist roles in a variety of original works, most notably Within The Bodies and Angeli, both by Ma Cong. She also danced with American Contemporary Ballet in Los Angeles for their 2014 summer season. In 2016, Carrie Ruth returned to Oklahoma where she danced with Oklahoma City Ballet for five seasons. Carrie Ruth discovered her interest in choreography through OKCB’s Future Voices production,for which she was selected to create two original works, You See What You Look For and Whistling in The Dark. In 2021, she joined Pegasus Contemporary Ballet, a new company in Dallas, Texas where she served as Resident Choreographer and Artistic Associate for two seasons and was a critical part of the company's initial growth and success. She has created six new works for the company, including collaborations with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Verdigris Ensemble. Her work Cutting Room Floor was awarded a TACA pop up grant in 2022, and she premiered her first evening-length ballet, Amor Fati: An Evening of Greek Mythology, in June of 2023 at the Kalita Humphreys Theater. Also in the summer of 2023, Carrie Ruth was invited to create a new work at the prestigious National Choreographers Initiative in Irvine, CA, under the direction of Molly Lynch. She created an immersive ballet, All Rise, that utilizes the facility in which it is performed to its fullest, moving the audience through the space on a tour of sorts. Currently, Carrie Ruth is based in Dallas, TX where she is working on a new commission for Ballet North Texas.