Thursday, October 18, 8PM
Cecilia Rubino
Cecilia Rubino is the Chair of Theater at Lang College/The New School and she has directed the Lang College BA in Theater at The New School (2008-2010, 2012-14 and 2016-18) The program was named one of the top Civic Engagement and Social Justice theater programs in the US by American Theater Magazine. She currently directs the Arts in Context Program at Lang College and coordinates the ‘I Have A Dream’-Harlem Theater & Education Program. She previously was on the faculty at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, NYU’s Playwrights Horizons Studio and NYU’s Kanbar School for Film & Television. She wrote and directed From the Fire, which won three Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s UK/Music Theater Awards: Best Music, Best Production and Best New Musical. The Scotsman named the piece an Edinburgh “cultural highlight of 2011” and a WNET Public Television documentary of From the Fire was nominated for a NY Emmy award.