Cyma Rubin- Biography

Cyma Rubin is a producer, director, writer and president of Business of Entertainment Inc. She produced the 1971 smash-hit revival of “No, No, Nanette”, which received six Tony nominations and won four Tony Awards. Other theatre credits include “Doctor Jazz”(three Tony nominations),  “Oh, Kay!”, “Mike”, “Porgy and Bess” and “I love A Piano” and “Guys and Dolls”.

Her feature film, Greaser’s Palace was named Outstanding Film of the Year at the London Film Festival. She produced educational programs for Pepsi Cola, Movies-of-the-Week for CBS, documentaries for Japanese television and for Turner Network Television, she produced and directed “Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs” which was awarded the 1999 Emmy and Telly awards for best documentary.

Ms. Rubin did the original research for the exhibition, the Pulitzer Prize photographs which opened in Tokyo in 1998.  In 2000, she curated, designed, and produced the first American exhibition of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs:  Capture the Moment at the Newseum in New York City. The traveling exhibition of Pulitzer photographs, from 1942 to the present is updated annually. She writes, produces and edits the exhibition catalog.

Her latest exhibition, which she curated and produced; THE AMERICAN SOLDIER, A Photographic Tribute, From the Civil War to the War in Iraq, covers nine wars. It opened in 2007 to rave reviews and is now being exhibited throughout the United States. She edited and produced the exhibition catalog.

A native New Yorker, Cyma Rubin graduated from North Carolina State University and from The New York School of Interior Design. From North Carolina State University, she received an Honorary Doctorate Degree of Fine Arts and the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2003. She is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Overseas Press Club, the executive committee of the Weill Cornell Medical Council, a trustee of the North Carolina Society of New York and a member of the board of directors of the John B. Stetson Company. She lives in New York City.