Don Rubin
Don Rubin (19*-). Canadian Journalist, critic and academic.
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Biography
Born in New York, he studied at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, where he trained as an actor. He later moved to Canada where he became a founding member of the Department of Theatre and of York’s Faculty of Fine Arts. Chair of the Department for three years, and later Founding Director of the Graduate Program in Theatre Studies (MA and PhD), his areas of specialization today include Canadian Theatre, African Theatre, Criticism, Theatre Theory, and Modern Drama.
Rubin became the editor of Routledge’s enormous World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre and was founding editor of the national theatre journal Canadian Theatre Review. He is a member of the Executive Committee of IATC and Reviews Editor for their Journal Critical Stages and he was also on the editorial board of the South African Theatre Journal.
He is married to Patricia Keeney, a poet, novelist and theatre critic.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Among his interests are African and South African theatre and he spent 6 months in South Africa in 2006, teaching at the University of Stellenbosch Drama Department.
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