After many years writing and performing with improvisational theater companies as well as scripting industrial films and children's television, Danny Rubin began writing screenplays. His screen credits include Hear No Evil, S.F.W., and Groundhog Day, for which he received the 1993 British Academy Award for Screenwriting and the Critics' Circle Award for Screenwriter of the Year, as well as honors from the Writers Guild of America and the American Film Institute.
Rubin has taught screenwriting throughout the US and internationally, and from 2008-2013 he served as the first Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on Screenwriting at Harvard University.
Groundhog Day: The Musical opened to rave reviews at the Old Vic Theatre in London in August of 2016 earning Rubin and composer/lyricist Tim Minchin the Oliver Award for Best New Musical. The show opened on Broadway in April of 2017 garnering 7 Tony nominations including Best Musical and Best Book to a Musical.
Rubin holds a BA in biology from Brown University and an MA in radio, television, and film from Northwestern University. He is married to librarian, web-designer and architect Louise Rubin with whom he shares a home in New Mexico and at least two children.
SELECTED CONFERENCES (lecturer, panelist, instructor): |
16 |
Equinoxe Europe, Master Class
Stuttgart, Germany |
14 |
Austin Screenwriting Conference
Austin, TX |
14 |
The Storyutbildningen Screenwriting School
Gotland, Sweden |
13 |
Michener Center for Writers,
University of Texas
Austin, Texas |
13 |
Adobe, Distinguished Lecture Series
San Francisco, California
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13 |
Newport Art Museum
Newport, Rhode Island |
12 |
Harvard Business School
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
12 |
Austin Screenwriting Festival
Michener Center, Austin, Texas |
12 |
UCLA extension
Los Angeles, California |
11 |
Palais de Tokyo
Paris |
11 |
Emerson College
Boston, Massachusetts |
10 |
Women in Film & Video New England
Boston, Massachusetts |
09 |
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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09 |
Austin Film Festival and Screenwriters Conference
Austin, Texas |
09 |
The Guggenheim Museum
New York, NY |
08 |
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts |
07 |
University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management
Minneapolis, MN |
06 |
Case Western University
Cleveland, Ohio |
05 |
The
Screenwriting Conference in Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico |
05 |
University
of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
05 |
American
Camp Association, National Conference
Orlando, Florida |
03 |
Chautauqua
Institution
Chautauqua, New York |
02 |
Santa
Fe Screenwriting Conference
Santa Fe, New Mexico |
01 |
Amherst
College
Amherst, Massachusetts |
01 |
Nashville
Screenwriters Conference
Nashville, Tennessee |
00 |
Santa
Fe Screenwriting Conference
Santa Fe, New Mexico |
00 |
XXI
Secolo Festival Europeo Di Cinema
Reggio Calabria, Italia |
00 |
Faulkfest,
Words and Music
New Orleans, Louisiana |
00 |
Taos
Talking Pictures Festival
Taos, New Mexico |
99 |
Taos
Talking Pictures Festival
Taos, New Mexico |
98 |
Cinestory
Screenwriting Conference
Chicago, Illinois |
97 |
Cinestory
Screenwriting Conference
Chicago, Illinois |
96 |
Sundance
Institute, Screenwriters Lab
Sundance, Utah |
96 |
National
Writer's Workshop
Albuquerque, New Mexico |
96 |
Cinestory
Screenwriting Conference
Chicago, Illinois |
95 |
Northwestern
University
Evanston, Illinois |

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