Faculty

DON RUBIN

BA (Hofstra), MA (Bridgeport)
Professor: Theatre Studies - aesthetics, criticism, Canadian theatre, modern drama
Department of Theatre, York University

drubin@yorku.ca

Theatre historian, writer and critic, Professor Rubin is executive editor of the six-volume World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre, the largest international cooperative project in the history of cultural publishing (Routledge 1995-2000). He was the founding editor of Canada's national theatre journal, the Canadian Theatre Review (CTR), which he edited from 1974 to 1982. Under his aegis, an active theatre book publishing program grew from CTR. Major titles have included the archival series Canada on Stage and the historical series Canada's Lost Plays.

Professor Rubin's other publications include Canadian Theatre History: Selected Readings (Copp Clark, Toronto, 1996; 2nd ed. Playwrights Canada Press, 2004), the first sourcebook ever in Canadian theatre history. As a theatre critic, he has written for major journals, magazines and newspapers worldwide. For several years he was a regular critic for the Toronto Star, CBC Radio and the New Haven (Connecticut) Register. Widely traveled, he has lectured on Canadian theatre in France, Russia, Bulgaria, India, Poland, Hungary and China. He is a former president of the Canadian Centre of the UNESCO-affiliated International Theatre Institute and served for six years as chair of the ITI's publications committee.

A charter member of York University's Faculty of Fine Arts, Professor Rubin joined the Department of Theatre in 1968 and served as department Chair from 1979 to 1982.