Leon Rubin

Professor Leon Rubin is a UK theatre director, theatre management consultant, professor, writer, and former Director of East 15 Acting School. He is a member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. He was the first foreigner to be awarded an Honorary Professorship of GITIS Russian Theatre Academy, Moscow, in 1997. He began his career as assistant director at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has been artistic director of three major UK theatre companies: Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Watford Palace theatre the Bristol Old Vic and Associate at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and a frequent guest at the Stratford Festival, Canada. He has directed theatre production in many countries across the world. In April 2019 it was announced that he had decided to step down from his position as Director of East 15 Acting School, and joined the school's newly formed research department, undertaking an initial 2-year research programme and focusing on directing and writing. Routledge published his book, Rehearsing Shakespeare in 2021. He then became Dean of Performing Arts at LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore. Provided by Wikipedia