Here it is! Episode 1 of RuBin’s “Trip to Toronto”, where we document all the crazy shit that happened on our way to the Toronto Improv Festival.
Episode 2 will be up tomorrow! Keep your eyes peeled!
From 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!
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)
Look who’s on the main page of the Philly Improv Festival’s website!
Ruby & Binu try to cool off from the heat.
Also, we have a show at the PIT Underground tomorrow night at 8pm!
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)!
Here it is! A full 9 minute clip from our performance at Roman Rimer’s benefit show “Evolution Revolution” this past Monday at the Magnet Theater!
Jerry Stiller was in the audience & afterwards told us how terrific we were! We hope you like it as well!
RuBin 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. Check out Roman’s Kickstarter page at the link below:
Hey guys! Hope you’re enjoying all the info about my projects on Tumblr, and my photos and music. Sometimes your “likes” really make me feel better about being an artist in this sometimes admittedly difficult metropolis!
I’m posting for a very specific reason:
Last year I directed an amazing one man show written by and starring my friend Roman Rimer called Evolution.
In the fall of 2009, Roman traveled to the Southern United States and did a bunch of outreach work with queer-identified youth. His concentration was at Universities where students were not allowed to be openly gay - pretty rough places for people trying to earn an education. Evolution is about those experiences.
I really loved working on the show. Evolution deals with issues of identity, regional differences and similarities and is also really funny and heartfelt. We had a great run of eight shows at The Magnet Theater in NYC.
Now, this summer, we are taking the Evolution on tour! We are going to the Kansas City, Indianapolis and Chicago Fringe Festivals. We want as many people to see this show as possible so we are raising money to cover our production costs and to be able to offer sliding scale tickets. We have a fund-raising web-page set up here:
We are trying to raise $3000 by June 11th! We are at a little over $1000 right now and need all the help we can get. If we don’t raise our goal of $3000 by June 11th, we don’t get any of the already raised funds. I’m asking all of you to give what you can to this project. Even $1 or $10 could mean that someone gets to see this show who otherwise wouldn’t be able to. I believe in the work that Roman is doing in these communities. I truly think it’s making the world a better place and that’s why I’m asking you to contribute to this project.
Here is that link to contribute and learn more again:
Please, just a couple bucks could really help! If you can’t contribute, reblogging or posting the link on your Facebook would super-help too! And of course, let me know if any of you have any questions.
Thanks for continuing to follow me on Tumblr. You’re all great.
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If you didn’t know, we’re getting ready for our musical improv debut this Friday night, 8pm at the basement of the Peoples’ Improv Theater (123 E. 24th Street bet. Park Ave. & Lexington Ave.)!
Couples’ Retreat!
- Chairman Golem (Michael Martin & Morgan Phillips)
- Friends of Snails (Meghan Brown & Chano Garcia)
With the legendary Frank Spitznagel on piano! Hosted by RuBin!
Miss your fix of RuBin?
We’re back on Sat. April 30th, 2pm at the Creek as part of the Spring Up the Creek Improv Festival!
And mark your calendars: Fri. May 20th, 8pm - a special MUSICAL IMPROV edition of Couples’ Retreat!

