Charlie Rubin

Last updated

Charlie Rubin
Born20th century
OccupationHumorist, screenwriter, professor
LanguageEnglish
GenreComedy, television
Spouse Susan Shapiro

Charlie Rubin is an American television comedy writer, producer, and humorist.

Contents

He has written for National Lampoon , The Carol Burnett Show , In Living Color , The Jon Stewart Show , Saturday Night Live , Seinfeld , and Law & Order: Criminal Intent .

Education and early career

Rubin attended the Horace Mann School in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx. He then Williams College, from which he graduated in 1972. While at Williams, Rubin, along with his friend, Mitchell Rapoport, founded The Williams Advocate. He also produced an original musical called Sizzle with William Finn at the Adams Memorial Theater. It was the first original musical to be mounted at Williams College since Stephen Sondheim attended over twenty years earlier.

Television-writing career

Teaching career

Rubin is a professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts [1] in the Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, where he teaches writing for television.

Personal life

He married writer Susan Shapiro on July 27, 1996.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Christopher Guest</span> British-American screenwriter, comedian, musician, director, and actor

Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest, known professionally as Christopher Guest, is a British-American actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. Guest has written, directed, and starred in his series of comedy films shot in mockumentary style. The series of films began with This Is Spinal Tap and continued with Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, and Mascots.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Finn</span> Musical artist

William Alan Finn is an American composer and lyricist. He is best known for his musicals, which include Falsettos, for which he won the 1992 Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musical, A New Brain (1998), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005).

Michael Stewart was an American playwright and dramatist, librettist, lyricist, screenwriter and novelist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Victor Williams</span> American actor

Victor L. Williams is an American actor best known as Doug Heffernan's best friend Deacon Palmer on The King of Queens. He has also appeared on several other hit TV shows, including Homicide: Life on the Street,Law & Order,ER,New York Undercover,Girlfriends,Fringe and The Jamie Foxx Show. In 2012, Williams was seen and heard as a pitchman for Verizon Fios television commercials.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">New York University Tisch School of the Arts</span> Arts school of New York University

The New York University Tisch School of the Arts is the performing, cinematic and media arts school of New York University.

James Taylor is an American producer and screenwriter who has often collaborated on projects with Alexander Payne. The two are business partners in the Santa Monica based Ad Hominem Enterprises, and are credited as co-writers of six films released between 1996 and 2007: Citizen Ruth (1996), Election (1999), Jurassic Park III , About Schmidt (2002), Sideways (2004), and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. Taylor's credits as a producer include films such as Cedar Rapids and The Descendants.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vondie Curtis-Hall</span> American actor and director

Vondie Curtis-Hall is an American actor, film director, and television director. As an actor, he is known for his role as Dr. Dennis Hancock on the CBS medical drama Chicago Hope created by David E. Kelley and as Ben Urich in the Netflix TV series Daredevil. He wrote and directed the cult film Gridlock'd.

James Widdoes, sometimes billed as Jamie Widdoes, is an American actor and television director.

Gregory James Qaiyum, better known by his initials GQ, is an American actor, writer and rapper.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Scott Wittman</span> American director, lyricist and writer

Scott Wittman is an American director, lyricist, composer and writer for Broadway, concerts, and television.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard LaGravenese</span> American screenwriter and film director (born 1959)

Richard LaGravenese is an American screenwriter and film director, known for The Fisher King, The Bridges of Madison County, and Behind the Candelabra.

Robert L. Freedman is an American screenwriter and dramatist. He is best known for his teleplays for Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997) and Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001), and for his Tony-winning book and lyrics of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (2014).

Joe Keenan is an American screenwriter, television producer and novelist. Known for his television work on series like Frasier and Desperate Housewives, Keenan has been referred to as the "gay P.G. Wodehouse" for his three successful novels.

Dominic Dierkes is an American actor, comedian and writer best known for his involvement in the sketch comedy group Derrick Comedy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jim Brown (director)</span> American film director

James Bradford Brown is an American film director, primarily known for his work in documentary film. He has won four Emmys, most recently for Pete Seeger: The Power of Song. He has directed and produced four feature documentaries that received theatrical distribution. He heads Jim Brown Productions, LLC and Ginger Group Productions, Inc., production companies specializing in cultural and social documentaries and music concerts.

Joshua Safran is an American television screenwriter and executive producer.

Thomas Schnauz is an American television producer and television writer. His credits include The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen, Night Stalker, Reaper, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul.

Steven Jaret Lutvak was an American composer who worked in musical theatre, film, and television. He was best known for writing the music and co-writing the lyrics for the musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2014.

Robert Horn is an American playwright, screenwriter and producer. He is best known on the stage for his Tony Award-winning book for the Broadway musical adaptation of Tootsie, as well as 13, Disney Theatrical's Hercules, and the Broadway musical Shucked. For film and television, he is best known as the screenwriter for Netflix's 13: the Musical and the Disney Channel Original Movies Teen Beach Movie, Teen Beach 2, Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure, and The Suite Life Movie.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David West Read</span> Canadian playwright and screenwriter

David West Read is a Canadian television writer, playwright, actor and producer. He is known for his work as a writer and executive producer on the television series Schitt's Creek, for which he won an Emmy Award. He is also known for writing the multiple award-winning musical & Juliet.

References

  1. "Charlie Rubin". Tisch School of the Arts . Retrieved June 17, 2018.