John Gould Rubin (Director) is Artistic Director of The Private Theatre, for which he mounted a radical, site-specific, Hedda Gabler and Strindberg’s Playing with Fire graphically produced at The Box, a notorious burlesque house. Recently he created and directed Turn Me Loose about the life of Dick Gregory, (Finalist for the Joe Calloway Award for Excellence in Directing) off Broadway and at The Wallis Annenberg Center in Los Angeles with Joe Morton; both American Buffalo with Treat Williams and Stephen Adly Guirgis and Outside Mullingar with Michael Hayden and Mary Bacon at The Dorset Theater Festival and Michael Ricigliano’s play, Queen for a Day with David Proval and Vinnie Pastore off-Broadway; Billy Hayes’ one-man true story in Riding The Midnight Express off-Broadway, in LA, Edinburgh and at the Soho Theater in London; The Fartiste, off-Broadway and Double Indemnity for the Old Globe in San Diego. He was co-Artistic and Executive Director of LAByrinth Theater Company (w/John Ortiz and Phillip Seymour Hoffman,) for which he directed eight shows including premieres by John Patrick Shanley and Erin Cressida Wilson, produced Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (for LAByrinth, off-B’way, in Edinburgh, at the Donmar Warehouse and on The West End) and Our Lady of 121st Street (for LAByrinth and Off-B’way.) Other recent New York Work includes: The Cherry Orchard with Ellen Burstyn, at The Actor’s Studio; and a dual-theater production of The Seagull (at the Harold Clurman Lab.) He directed Peer Gynt with wheel-chair-using British actor, Neil Hancock, for The International Ibsen Festival in Oslo, and a bilingual workshop of Ximena Escalante’s Electra Despierta at Cal Arts. He wrote and performed in Karole Armitage’s multi-media show, The Predators’ Ball, which premièred at The Pergola Theater in Florence, Italy, and at The Next Wave Festival at BAM. With The Private Theatre he is presently devising a large-scale work about American Political Polarization based on the consciousness of conflict philosophy of Barnard Lonergan - Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana, Sean, Claudia, Gianna, Alex - and a radical new version of A Doll House by Royston Coppenger. He also produced the tour of Travis Preston’s one-man Macbeth with Stephen Dillane accompanied by a jazz trio, to London, Sydney, Australia and New Zealand. Theprivatetheatre.org
