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TimeOut Chicago *CRITICS PICK
My two person improv show RuBin was a TIME OUT CHICAGO *Critics Pick for the 2013 Chicago Improv Festival!
"...they handily found the game (and a little truth in comedy) in a scene in which a middle management drone bids farewell to his coworker, not realizing she has been selected to take his place. They were solid."
"...they handily found the game (and a little truth in comedy) in a scene in which a middle management drone bids farewell to his coworker, not realizing she has been selected to take his place. They were solid."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
The New York Times has listed the sketch show I am in as a show to see!
FUNNYNOT SLUTTY.COM
Comedy website funnynotslutty.com posted a sketch video I co-star in called The Tampon Virgin. Check it out here!
PHILLY IMPROV FESTIVAL
The 2011 Philly Improv Festival calls my duo improv team, RuBin, one of the ..."damn good highlights."
Birthright Israel NEXT: Monologues
"So there I was, after watching over an hour of something called “Monologues,” about the search for Jewish identity, weeping—this hardcore journalist of 30 years-plus gushing tears uncontrollably.
In fact, it took everything I had to keep from going soft in the knees and collapsing straight to the floor of The Triad Theatre on West 72nd Street. That’s how moved I was. That’s how blown away I was. That’s how good this show was. Monologues, quite simply, consists of a bunch of reflections by 20-something Jewish-Americans who had made first-time trips through Israel for 10 days, sponsored by a group called Taglit-Birthright Israel... From the moment the show began, with everything inside me ready to resist, with me having already schemed a quick and quiet exit, I found myself instead pulled right in, and through 12 monologues—soulful and poignant and witty—capped by a rousing close of a rap song, it never let me go. I laughed out loud. I nodded my head enough times to pull a neck muscle. I got goosebumps. I smiled. I chuckled. And, during each five-minute monologue, at some point, I broke down. The words were so beautifully crafted, so powerful, so human; the performances all honed to brilliant gems. I can’t thank all the performers enough for such an unforgettable night. Your talent awes me, inspires me. You should all be so proud of what you created. Something truly special. What a rare thing." -MIKE GEFFNER, CREATOR AND PRODUCER OF THE INSPIRED WORD |
"Nine of the 14 Birthright Monologues moved me to tears...Birthright Monologues should be performed (or if a live performance is not practical a video of the production should be screened) at every Hebrew High School and campus Hillel club in the country; I heartily recommend it to audiences of all ethnic and religious (or secular) backgrounds from middle school to retirement community ages and everyone in between. |
BOOK REVIEW
"It is a charming little anthology that gives testimony to Birthright's power to enrich and even change individual lives." - PHILIP GETZ, JEWISHREVIEWOFBOOKS.COM
CHICAGO'S BUGHOUSE THEATER
tweet is a direct quote from a RuBin improv set during the Chicago Improv Festival, April 6th, 2013.
- Bughouse Theater @BughouseTheater7 Apr
RuBin:"Not the fist. The finger."#Showquotes#cif