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John Gould Rubin <\/strong>is Artistic Director of The Private Theatre and former co-Artistic Director (with Phillip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz) and Executive Director of LAByrinth Theater Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DIRECTOR:<\/strong> For The Private Theatre he directed Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana, Sean, Claudia, Gianna and Alex, <\/em>a devised project inspired by the political polarization of America. Also, for The Private Theatre he directed a dramatically explicit deconstruction of Strindberg\u2019s one-act Playing with Fire<\/em>, staged at The Box (the notoriously sexual cabaret) and the incendiary, sold-out, 2010, site-specific production of Ibsen\u2019s Hedda Gabler <\/em>staged in a 19th <\/sup>c townhouse for twenty-five people per night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He just directed a radical new version of King Lear<\/em>, with Joe Morton, at the Wallis Annenberg Center in LA. Also with Mr. Morton, he conceived, developed, produced and directed Turn Me Loose, <\/em>a dramatization of the comedy, activism and life of Dick Gregory, the legendary black comedian\/Activist, which premiered off-Broadway (and for which Mr. Rubin was a finalist for the Joe Calloway Award from the SDC for Best Direction of 2016) which he remounted at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and at the Wallis Annenberg Theater Center in LA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other projects include American Buffalo <\/em>with Treat Williams and Stephen Adly Guirgis and Outside Mullingar <\/em>with Michael Hayden and Mary Bacon both for the Dorset Theatre Festival, the premiere of Michael Ricigliano\u2019s Queen For A Day <\/em>with David Proval and Vinnie Pastore off-Broadway and an environmental production of The Cherry Orchard <\/em>for The Actors Studio with Ellen Burstyn in which he surrounded the audience with the action of the play; Little Doc<\/em>, with Adam Driver at Rattlestick and The Importance of Being Earnest<\/em>, with Nick Wyman (as Lady Bracknell) and Gabe Ebert. Mr. Rubin directed I, Peer<\/em>, a re-imagining of Ibsen\u2019s Peer Gynt <\/em>for the International Ibsen Festival at The National Theatre of Norway. For LAByrinth he directed the premieres of Philip Roth in Khartoum <\/em>and Penalties & Interest <\/em>(both as part of Public\/LAB at The Public Theater); STopless<\/em>; The Trail of Her Inner Thigh <\/em>by Erin Cressida Wilson; John Patrick Shanley’s A Winter Party<\/em>; and co- created and directed two devised pieces: Dreaming in Tongues<\/em>; and M\u00e9moire<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also directed an environmental production of Mother Courage<\/em> for The Harold Clurman Lab which also produced his two-theater production of The Seagull<\/em>, and he directed a multimedia, stage adaptation of Double Indemnity <\/em>with Michael Hayden for The Old Globe in San Diego; Riding the Midnight Express, <\/em>Billy Hayes\u2019 personal tale of imprisonment and escape in Turkey (memorialized in the film \u201cMidnight Express\u201d) at the Edinburgh Festival, off-Broadway and at the Soho Theater in London; the Off-Broadway production of The Fartiste<\/em>, a musical he also premiered for The Private Theatre in 2006 at the New York International Fringe Festival (winner of Outstanding Musical award); Jack’s Back<\/em>, a new musical about Jack the Ripper; Open Marriage <\/em>(a site-specific, one-woman show about Elsie Clews Parsons at Ventfort Hall, in Lenox, Mass., in co-production with Shakespeare & Co.);<\/em> and In the Daylight <\/em>at the McGinn-Cazale. He wrote (and played Ivan Boesky in) The Predators’ Ball <\/em>(collaborating with Karole Armitage and David Salle) for the Teatro Comunale in Florence, Italy, and at BAM’s Next Wave Festival. Mr. Rubin also directed the film, Almost Home<\/em>, for Trigger Street Independent, which was presented at The Berkshire Film Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other projects co-created or directed include The Erotica Project <\/em>at The Public Theatre and HERE; Trial By Water <\/em>by Qui Nguyen for Ma-Yi; Blood in the Sink <\/em>at Urban Stages; both A Matter Of Choice <\/em>and NAMI <\/em>for Partial Comfort; Jerusalem, Measure for Measure,<\/em> King Lear<\/em>, All My Sons<\/em>, 1984<\/em>, The Tempest, A Delicate Balance, A Bright Room Called Day <\/em>by Tony Kushner, Nothing is the End of the World <\/em>(by Bekah Brunstetter,) Pericles, Censored on Final Approach, Six Passionate Women <\/em>(by Mario Fratti,) The Shape of Things <\/em>(by Neil LaBute,) The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui<\/em>, Maria Irene Forn\u00e9s\u2019 Fefu and her Friends<\/em>, David Gow\u2019s Relative Good<\/em>, Kindertransport, Arabian Nights, <\/em>Rinne Groff\u2019s The Ruby Sunrise<\/em>, Dark of the Moon<\/em>, Rebecca Gilman\u2019s The Land of Little Horses<\/em>; Frank McGuiness\u2019 Factory Girls<\/em>; Timberlake Wertenbaker\u2019s Three Birds Alighting on a Field, Ivanov<\/em>, The Crucible<\/em>, Richard Nelson\u2019s Franny\u2019s Way, <\/em>David Mamet\u2019s Boston Marriage, Picnic, <\/em>Israel Horvitz\u2019 North Shore Fish, <\/em>Reza de Wet\u2019s Three Sisters, Two <\/em>and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead <\/em>for the Stella Adler Conservatory; a radical Hamlet <\/em>with seven Hamlets for Columbia\u2019s MFA Program, and he has directed for both EST\u2019s and Naked Angel\u2019s Marathons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is presently preparing Turn Me Loose <\/em>for Broadway, The Private Theatre\u2019s production of A Doll House<\/em>. He will also direct Michael Ricigliano\u2019s play, Godless<\/em> with Harry Lennix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRODUCER: <\/strong>For LAByrinth, (former co-Artistic and Executive Director of and presently on the Board of Directors,) he produced Stephen Adly Guirgis\u2019 Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train<\/em>, at Center Stage\/NY, Off-Broadway (two Drama Desk noms.), at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival (Fringe First Award), at The Donmar Warehouse, and at The Arts Theatre on the West End in London (Olivier Award nomination.) He created, produced and directed Turn Me Loose <\/em>to sold out houses and universal rave reviews off-Broadway (for which he was a finalist for the Joseph Calloway Award.) He also produced Our Lady of 121st Street <\/em>at LAByrinth, and off-Broadway; John Patrick Shanley\u2019s play, Dirty Story <\/em>at LAByrinth; <\/em>and the tour of Travis Preston\u2019s production of Macbeth<\/em>, with Stephen Dillane playing all the roles accompanied by a jazz trio, at the Almeida Theater in London, the Sydney Theater in Australia, and in New Zealand. He also produced Rinse, Repeat, <\/em>Domenica Feraud\u2019s harrowing play about eating disorders at Signature Theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ACTOR:<\/strong> As an actor, Mr. Rubin appeared at The Public Theater\/NYSF in the SPF production of The Sacrifices <\/em>directed by Sam Gold; at Second Stage in John Patrick Shanley’s play, Cellini<\/em>; on Broadway opposite Glenn Close and Gene Hackman in Death and The Maiden<\/em>, under Mike Nichol’s direction; in the title role of Moliere’s Don Juan <\/em>at The Mark Taper Forum in L.A. under the direction of Travis Preston (for which he received the DramaLogue Award in Acting); as Jacques in John Tillinger’s production of As You Like It<\/em> at the Long Wharf; in Martin Crimp\u2019s adaptation of The Misanthrope<\/em>, at CSC with Uma Thurman and Roger Rees; as well as in the lead role of Mr. Crimp\u2019s Play With Repeats<\/em>, at New York Stage and Film with Frances McDormand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

M.F.A. Yale School of Drama<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty: Stella Adler Studio, ESPA at Primary Stages and the Columbia University MFA Film School. Former faculty: SUNY Purchase, Harvard Summer School, Fordham University, and Playwrights Horizons theater school at NYU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website: www.theprivatetheatre.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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