Ben Rubin(II)
- Producer
- Director
- Actor
Ben Rubin is a South African born Chicagoan who spent his childhood
dreaming of being a filmmaker like his Academy Award winning cousin,
writer/director Barry Levinson (Rainman and The Natural), while observing on
the set of Levinson's Avalon and Tin Men. Also as a youth, Rubin was
wooing the crowds as an actor with his female impression of the Beastie
Boys' song 'Girls' and Shell Silverstein's poem 'US'. He later went on
to attend The George Washington University and majored in journalism
and radio/TV, while he interned at 'The George Michael Sports Machine'
and 'Entertainment Tonight'. He would also lead the comedy troupe at
college and was soon bound for Hollywood, just days after college
graduation. In his past three years in the film business, Rubin has
worked with acclaimed directors F. Gary Gray and Barry Levinson as well as
screenwriter, Naomi Foner and at the William Morris Agency. He has just
completed his first screenplay with 'Shaun Rosenberg' called I.M. Gold, actor,
and co-writing, co-directing and co-producing partner of Rubin on
Pleading the Fifth: Philip Baldwin (2001). Rubin is a year away from completing his Masters in Business
Administration (M.B.A.) from The Peter F. Drucker School of Business at
The Claremont Colleges in Claremont, CA. Rubin's creative mentors are
John Hughes, Woody Allen, Harold Ramis, Steve Martin, Mel Brooks and Cameron Crowe.