Don Rubin
About
Don Rubin
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Professor Rubin became enamoured of theatre at an early age and was one of the early graduates of the High School of Performing Arts, the first performing arts high school in North America and a school made famous by the film and television series Fame. At Performing Arts, he majored in acting. His studies included work with a range of early Stanislavski teachers along with subjects such as improv, voice, ballet and modern dance.
Of Note
Boards
Don Rubin Has been President/Chair of the following organisations:
- Canadian Theatre Critics Association
- Canadian Centre of the International Theatre Institute
- African Theatre Ensemble (Toronto)
- Red Barn Theatre (Jackson’s Point) as the Lake Simcoe Arts Foundation
- Shakespeare Authorship Coalition (doubtaboutwill.org)
- International Association of Theatre Critics
- International Theatre Institute
- The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre Ltd.
- CTR Publications Ltd.
- Antares Press
- Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship
- Critical Stages (critical-stages.org)
- The George Ryga Festival
Honours
- Biographical documentation published in Who’s Who in Canada (annual editions from 1998 to present). University of Toronto Press.
- Lifetime membership for distinguished contribution to African Theatre , Society of Nigeria Theatre Artists
- Distinguished contribution to Asian Theatre University of Rajasthan (Jaipur, India)
- Lifetime membership for contributions to Oxfordian studies, Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship
- Walter F. Gordon Fellowship for Research (York University)
- A chapter on Don Rubin as theatre critic was written by Professor Ira Levine, Dean of the faculty of applied arts, Ryerson University (Now Metropolitan Toronto University) in Anton Wagner’s history of Canadian theatre criticism, Establishing Our Boundaries, University of Toronto Press, 1999
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