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'', and '' Law & Order: Criminal Intent''.

Education and early career

Rubin attended the

Horace Mann School Horace Mann School (also known as Horace Mann or HM) is an American private, independent college-preparatory school in the Bronx, founded in 1887. Horace Mann is a member of the Ivy Preparatory School League, educating students from the New Yo ...

in the Riverdale neighborhood of

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. He then attended

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, 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

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at the Adams Memorial Theater. It was the first original musical to be mounted at Williams College since

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attended over twenty years earlier.

Television-writing career

Teaching career

Rubin is a professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in the Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, where he teaches writing for television.

Personal life

He married writer Susan Shapiro on July 27, 1996.

References

External links

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