BROADWAY: Jitney! (Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, NY Drama Critics Circle, Drama League Awards), Skeleton Crew (Tony nomination, OBIE Award, Audelco Award) and his own Lackawanna Blues (Outer Critics, Drama Desk, OBIE, Helen Hayes Awards). OFF-BROADWAY: Paradise Blue, The Piano Lesson (Lucille Lortel, Joseph A. Callaway, Audelco, OBIE Awards), Othello, The Happiest Song Plays Last, My Children! My Africa!, Seven Guitars, and The First Breeze of Summer. Regionally, Ruben has directed at A.C.T. San Francisco, The Old Globe San Diego, Two River Theater Company, Mark Taper Forum, McCarter Theatre, Encores! City Center and The Kennedy Center. His screenplay for his autobiographical Lackawanna Blues garnered numerous awards including The Humanitas Prize, National Board of Review, NAACP Image Award, The Christopher Award, and nominations for Emmy, Golden Globe, and WGA Awards for best adapted screenplay. Ruben served as co-artistic director, along with Stephen McKinley Henderson, of National Public Radio’s recording of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, comprising the entire canon of his plays. He held the position of Artistic Advisor for the Manhattan Theatre Club for three years. Ruben holds an MFA from Wayne State University, a BA from Binghamton University, and Honorary Doctorate Degrees from both Wayne State University and Buffalo State College.