Career
Richard Dubin is a writer/producer/director who joined the Staten Island Newhouse School of Public Communications faculty in the fall of 2000 after a long stint in network television He has written, produced or directed primetime programs for American Broadcasting Company, Columbia Broadcasting System, National Broadcasting Company and Fox. His studio affiliations include Disney, Warner Brothers, Viacom, TriStar, Home Box Office Productions, Fox television, Media Technology Monitor.
And he has had long term, exclusive business relationships with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures Television.
Professor Dubin has been honored with many awards. Prior to his television career, Professor Dubin was involved first in music and then in theater.
As a professional trumpet player and protégé of Clark Terry, he appeared or recorded with, among many others, such diverse artists as Otis Redding, The Crystals, Ray Charles, Lena Horne, Tony Bennett and Dizzy Gillespie, as well as Alvin and the Chipmunks. In the theater he participated prominently in the early Office-Office Broadway movement, acting and directing at Theater Foreign A New City, Theater Genesis, Café Cino, Hunter Playwrights Project and Louisiana Mama.
Concurrent with JazzTheater Workshop, Professor Dubin taught actors in his New York studio, and is a noted acting coach on both coasts.
He has also been a consultant to business in the systematic application of the creative process for enhanced communication and innovation. His clients have included International Business Machines Corporation and Beth Israel Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
