Rubin attended the Horace Mann School in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx. He then attended Williams College, from which he graduated in 1972. While at Williams, Rubin, along with his friend, Mitchell Rapoport, founded The Williams Advocate. He also produced an original musical called Sizzle with William Finn at the Adams Memorial Theater. It was the first original musical to be mounted at Williams College since Stephen Sondheim attended over twenty years earlier.
Television-writing career
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Teaching career
Rubin is a professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts[1] in the Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, where he teaches writing for television.