JOHN GOULD RUBIN

John Gould Rubin, Artistic Director of The Private Theater and former co-Artistic/Executive Director (with Phillip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz) of LAByrinth Theater, for which he directed seven plays including premieres by John Patrick Shanley and Erin Cressida Wilson. His radically updated production of King Lear was produced at The Wallis Annenberg Center in LA with Joe Morton in the title role. He created Turn Me Loose about legendary civil rights activist Dick Gregory at LAByrinth as part of collection of writings entited ’68, and then directed the show Off-Broadway with Joe Morton at The Westside Theatre (nominated for the Joe Calloway Award, best Director), at The Wallis Annenberg Center in LA, and Arena Stage in D.C. He directed American Buffalo with Treat Williams and Stephen Adly Guirgis at The Dorset Theatre Festival, where he also directed Outside Mullingar two seasons prior; a multimedia production of Double Indemnity at The Old Globe with Michael Hayden; and Little Doc at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre with Adam Driver. He’s directed at Ma-Yi, The Public, and the Soho Theatre in London among others, notably Peer Gynt at The International Ibsen Festival in Oslo, Playing With Fire (a deconstruction of Strindberg’s one-act play about voyeurism, exhibitionism, and wife-swapping at The Box, the notorious sex cabaret), a site-specific Hedda Gabler in a townhouse for twenty five people per performance, A Matter of Choice with Jeremy Strong and Chris Chalk for Partial Comfort, Queen For A Day with David Proval and Vincent Pastore Off-Broadway, and The Cherry Orchard with Ellen Burstyn at The Actors Studio. Current projects: both Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train and Turn Me Loose for Broadway; a new stage adaptation of Sholem Aleichem’s Wandering Stars; and a new project on contemporary anti-semitism.