Professor Leon Rubin, Director
Professor Leon Rubin is from the UK.
Professor Leon Rubin, a member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, was awarded an Honorary Professorship of GITIS Russian Theatre Academy, Moscow, in 1997, for his distinguished work in the Russian Theatre. He is a former Associate at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, after beginning his career as Assistant Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has been Artistic Director of three major UK theatre companies including the Bristol Old Vic. He is author of The Nicholas Nickleby Story (the making of the RSC production) and a new book, Performance in Bali, published by Routledge in June 2007.
Professor Rubin has directed numerous productions throughout the world, including Canada, Thailand, Japan, Greece, the USA, Ireland, Chile and Hong Kong, as well as the UK. His international training and lecturing activities have also been undertaken in these countries and in others as diverse as Russia, Spain, Korea, France, Holland and the Philippines. In the last few years, he has directed a series of Shakespeare productions for the Stratford Festival Theatre, Canada, and a major Japanese theatre company, Bungaku-za. In the past year he directed a Chinese version of Peter Pan in Hong Kong and a new Canadian play in London. He is director of a long-running show in Phuket, Thailand, which has been performed in a 3,000 seat theatre for the past eight years. He has also directed in the West End and in New York.
E-mail: lrubin@essex.ac.uk
