About Edward L Rubin
Emmy Award winning Production Designer Edward L. Rubin has lived in Paris, New York, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Santa Barbara. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with honors from the University of California, Berkeley, and he holds a Master of Fine Art degree in Set and Costume Design for Theatre from Carnegie-Mellon University.
As a Fine Artist, Edward studied etching and lithography at California State University Long Beach and drawing and painting at the Academie de Port Royal in Paris, France. From 1991 through 1997 he had a studio space at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco. During this time he developed his mastery of soft pastel on paper, a medium he continues to discover new things about every day. Edwards love of the Bay Area is evident in the many series of landscapes he created depicting its stunning beauty and his work of this period resides in many private collections. Edward now lives in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles, not far from where his grandparents built a home back in 1934.
As a Production Designer and Art Director for film and television, Edward has worked on over fifty shows. He won an Emmy Award for Art Direction in 1997 for Cinderella, starring Brandy and Whitney Houston and he holds two other Emmy nominations: Annie, starring Kathy Bates and Andersonville, directed by John Frankenheimer. Other credits include Oliver Beene, Martial Law, The Fantasticks, Golden Gate, Summerland, Jane Doe, What About Bob and the upcoming feature film Caffeine, starring Mena Suvari and Breckin Meyer. Edward recently Production Designed the televison movie “Return to Halloweentown” for the Disney Channel. And way back in 1988, he Art Directed the World Tour of Siegfried and Roy in Tokyo, Japan. He also Art Directed the World Tour of Siegfried and Roy in Tokyo, Japan.
Edward L. Rubin now combines Fine Art and Show Business in his art. He uses the actors on his sets as his subjects, creating his own personal narratives that reveal, like a good drama, some truth about being human.