February 2012
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Vote For RuBin for Best Comedy Duo! USA! USA! →
We started as a duo in October 2009. Little did we know that we would shake up the improv world like we have.
RuBin has been something that the two of us adore. We absolutely love performing with each other. We’ve been through a lot of good & bad - almost all of it good - and we wouldn’t trade a single thing for it.
If you’ve seen us perform in the last 2 1/2...
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Couples' Retreat Lineup for This Friday @ the PIT! →
RuBin’s got another killer lineup of improv duos at the Peoples’ Improv Theater this month! Join us as we introduce & laugh at some of the funniest improv duos playing today! - Steele/Quinn (Lorie Steele & Elizabeth Quinn) - Ryanna (Ryan Stadler & Anna Moore) - Michelin (Michelle Thomas & Colin McNally) - Green Eggs & Ham (Chris O’Neil & Lydia Gammill) -...
“…this is something - this is my daily mantra - sometimes minute by minute...”
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RuPaul: Half A Century Of Pure Glamour
(via likethecastofafellinimovie)
Improv advice from a drag queen. (via mynerdyimprovblog)
RuBin’s reblogging this!
January 2012
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Poupak's Parisian Life in New York: The Soul Glo... →
poupak:
I am more than excited to be co-hosting this show tonight!! Thank you Keisha Zollar for offering me this opportunity!
The Soul Glo is coming back with an amazing line up! Join us, as usual, for our comedy variety show featuring a diverse cast of performers, and bringing to the stage the very…
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Couples' Retreat w/ JODI LENNON & CASEY JOST -... →
RuBin kicks off Couples’ Retreat this Friday @ 8pm with a phenomenal lineup at the Peoples’ Improv Theater! Join us as we introduce & laugh at some of the funniest improv duos playing today! - Blanks & Blank (Jodi Lennon & Casey Jost) - Scho’ Knef (Emily Schorr Lesnick & Molly Knefel) - Assembly Line (Rhonda Underwood & Nicole Ayache) - Humble Pie (Jolene...
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UCB Training Center Diversity Program: Upcoming... →
ucbdifference:
Hello,
Here are some of the upcoming shows and events. Don’t forget to submit yours following these guidelines!
The UCB Difference Team
Shows:
RuBin Presents Couples’ Retreat Friday, Jan. 13, 8pm at the PIT Underground (123 E. 24th Street bet. Park Ave. & Lexington Ave.) - $5 Join your hosts RuBin as they showcase some of the funniest improv duos playing in NYC...
RuBin Returns to the Magnet - This Monday! →
Holy kittens! We’re back at the Magnet!
Seriously, we are super stoked & thrilled to be playing at the Magnet Theater again this Monday night at 10pm! It’s going to be an amazing show as we’ll be performing 20-25 minutes of our brand of infectious fun.
Performing alongside us is another really funny duo, Upstate (Andrew Yurman-Glaser & Dustin Drury)!
We’ll...
December 2011
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Major Web Updates! Twitter, Our Site, & A Mailing...
If you haven’t noticed, we’ve gotten pretty busy online in the last couple of days.
For starters, we’re finally on Twitter! Follow us on Twitter at RuBinComedy!
We’ve also made some massive overhauls on our site! Check out our new digs! It’s definitely a lot more nicer looking than before!
And finally, we’ve set up a mailing list! What took us so long to...
“I feel very lucky to be here.”
– written on the back of the stage of the De Maat Theater at Second City (via slowcomedy)
We should all consider ourselves lucky to be on a stage.
(via shortmikeshort)
"Fucking dress up"
poupak:
“make it special and show the audience that it fucking matters”
- Susan Messing about performing comedy at any given time, anywhere
Always!
The Peoples Improv Theater: NEW! PIT Musical House... →
thepit-nyc:
We are proud to announce PIT Musical Improv House Teams! Performing every Thursday. Previews start in January - Full run start Feb 2nd!
Team Red- 7PM
Rich Hollman
Tom Lisi
Stephanie Griffith
Julie Katz
Jeff Scherer
Ruby Marez
Ross Taylor
Team…
Congrats to Ruby on getting on a PIT Musical House Team! Thursday nights at the PIT are gonna get cray cray!
Last Couples' Retreat Of The Year - TONIGHT! →
It’s the last RuBin show of the year! The last Couples’ Retreat show of the year! And it’s all happening TONIGHT, 8pm at the PIT Underground!
This promises to be an amazing show tonight!
- OJ in a Sippy Cup (Oscar Montoya & Julia Morales) - Bryan*Linsky (Emily Bryan & Leanne Linsky) - Murnagle (Michael Murnane & Elizabeth Nagle) - Sean & Dervin (Michael Dervin...
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Last Couples' Retreat Show of 2011 - THIS FRIDAY! →
Know the best way to end 2011 with a bang? By checking out this killer lineup of duos improvising at the PIT in December - hosted by us!
Seriously, PEEP this lineup of duos playing this Friday night! - OJ in a Sippy Cup (Oscar Montoya & Julia Morales) - Bryan*Linsky (Emily Bryan & Leanne Linsky) - Murnagle (Michael Murnane & Elizabeth Nagle) - Sean & Dervin (Michael Dervin &...
RuBin's Trip to Toronto - Now in Playlist Form on... →
A number of people still approach us & ask us about how our trip to Toronto was. They had no idea that we did a video series that explains the whole thing! We’ve created a playlist so you can watch Episodes 1 through 9, from start to finish to hear about the whole trip, straight from RuBin’s lips to your ears!
RuBin's IRC Wiki Page →
It’s Monday. We got bored. So we put this together & posted it on the Improv Resource Center Wiki Page.
November 2011
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Couples' Retreat - TONIGHT! →
So there was a hiatus last month but it was brief, thankfully. But Couples’ Retreat is back at 8pm tonight at Peoples Improv Theater (PIT) Underground!
Peep the lineup of awesome duos performing tonight!
- The Best (Caitlin Steitzer & Chris Principe) - We Are Crabs (Nicholas Feitel & Emily Newhouse) - The Edge (Michael Condon & Dan Dilmaghani) - Assembly Line (Rhonda...
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Muffins in the Window - TONIGHT! →
One of the earliest shows we’ve ever done was at Muffins in the Window in March 2010. Even though technically we had been together since October ‘09, we had a bit of a break in between & had trouble booking shows.
Then we saw this variety show open up (hosted by Stephen Michael Rondel & Molly Lloyd) & thought, “Well, why don’t we try this? It’s a stage - it’s an opportunity!” And...
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October 2011
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WatchHappy birthday RuBin!
2 years ago today, we made our official debut at the Creek & the Cave in LIC, during the Creek’s “Fall Up The Creek Improv Camp”. Earlier that day, we had a tough 2 hour rehearsal with Jess Allen. The one thing she instilled in us before our show was this: “Leave no blank space. Just get the fuck out there & do something. Your partner will know what to do.”
At...
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Operation: Get RuBin to Toronto! →
RuBin’s heading up north! We’re crossing the border to perform in the Toronto Improv Festival next week! And because we believe in positive energy, we need your help. Tonight, we’ll both be guest bartending at Mustang Sally’s (324 7th Ave. between 28th & 29th Street) from 10:30pm-1:30am! Buy a drink from us & tip us well because all tips we earn go towards our...
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September 2011
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Improvaganza: Improvaganza 2011 - Arts at Marks... →
improvaganza:
Megalou – I’ve been a fan of Megan Gray since Snake & Bunny performed at Improvaganza 2008. I wasn’t able to see Megalou last year because they performed at laughtrack the same time I was performing at Marks Garage, so I’m glad to be able to this year. I loved Megalou’s show and the more I think about it, it’s become my favorite show of 2011. It was the small things they did...
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WatchFrom Couples’ Retreat at the PIT - May 20, 2011. RuBin made their musical improv debut, alongside two terrific musical improv duos, Chairman Golem (Michael Martin & Morgan Phillips) and Friends of Snails (Meghan Brown & Chano Garcia).
Musical accompaniment by the amazing Frank Spitznagel. Enjoy!
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Couples' Retreat - TONIGHT, 8pm AT THE PIT! →
Don’t miss this awesome lineup tonight!
* VINCENZO & JR (Mike Short & John Robert Wilson)
* JOSHEER (Josh Sharp & Sasheer Zamata)
* WHITNEY (Zach Phillips & Zhubin Parang)
* MARTIN & SHAW (Natasha Lee Martin & Cooper Shaw)
* RUBIN (Ruby Marez & Binu Paulose)
Practice vs. Chemistry
improvnonsense:
Good chemistry is worth 100 practices.
We totally believe this.
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Study With Rachel Hamilton! →
RuBin loves Rachel Hamilton - she’s our improv mom! We actually formed as an improv duo through a class with Rachel two summers ago & we’ve never looked back. She has been nothing but supportive, nurturing, caring, & honest to us about our improv. It’s because of her that we’ve grown not only as improvisers but as people. Damn, we just got real right now....
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August 2011
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RuBin Is Going Back to Philly This Fall!
We found out a few days ago that we’ve been accepted to perform at this year’s 7th Annual Philadelphia Improv Festival on Sun. Oct. 9, 7pm at the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater! We’re seriously thrilled about doing this! :-)
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Couples' Retreat - Fri. 8/19 @ the PIT! →
* HODAPP & ROTHWELL (Dan Hodapp & Natasha Rothwell) * GIRL, YOU’LL BE A WOMAN SOON (Chris O’Neil & Aston Hollins McClanahan) * POU & NIC (Poupak Sepehri & Nicole C. Lee) * FEATURED GIRLS (Lucia Brizzi & Margo Brooke Pellmar)
All happening at the Peoples’ Improv Theater (123 W. 24th Street bet. Park & Lexington Avenue)!
June 2011
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May 2011
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WatchRuBin is honored, thrilled & psyched to be performing in Roman’s fundraiser for his show Evolution on Mon. June 6th, 7pm at the Magnet Theater! Not only that, but an improv reunion from the wonderful Yes Andersons and hilarious sketch comedy from The Weird Sisters (Angela DeManti & Emily Shapiro)!
There’s a suggested donation of $10 for the show, which is totally worth it....