Liz Rubino, MA, AEA, RDT
National Performer, Teaching Artist, Drama Therapist

Liz lives for the little moments. The little spaces of unexpected wonder in a song. That genuine suspension between audience and performer. The teaching moment when a student’s eyes register a meaningful shift. Those little moments that lift communication and relationships between people into art. 

Miss Rubino has performed leading roles in professional theater and is a frequent cabaret and concert artist who’s credits include solo and duet cabarets at NYC’s The Duplex, The Metropolitan Room, Urban Stages and Don’t Tell Mama as well as iconic roles such as “Rose” in GYPSY, “Countess Aurelia” in DEAR WORLD, “Madeleine True” in Lippa’s THE WILD PARTY, “Meredith Parker” in BAT BOY, “Gertrude” in HAMLET, “Romaine” in THE LARAMIE PROJECT, and “Lysistrata” in LYSISTRATA. Her debut album, Touch of the Moon, was released in 2008, and her latest album, Woman Under the Covers, has enjoyed national concert engagements at Cleveland’s Cain Park and across the East Coast, as well as glowing music industry reviews. As a musical comedy performer, Liz is one half of the dynamic duo of Suave & The Boner with duet partner John Paul Boukis. Their hilarious, steampunk, double-entendre-brimming show debuted at the Duplex in 2013 and has played regionally as well as in return engagements in New York City.

For over 15 years, Liz Rubino National Performing and Therapeutic Arts Studios offered training programs, intensives, and performance groups in voice, drama, musical theatre, drama therapy, and specialty areas of the performing arts. National coaching intensives, New Faces of Cabaret, Broadway 360, and Acting For Dancers are offered to theaters, dance studios, and performing arts organizations with students performing at leading New York City cabaret venues, Walt Disney World, and more. Currently, Liz offers private coaching in voice, acting, and audition technique to serious students looking to pursue the performing arts professionally.

Formally, Liz spent seven exciting years collaborating with an amazing group of artists on the theatre faculty at the ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, CT, one of the nation’s top magnet performing arts high schools. Students at ECA have gone on to conservatory training at Yale, NYU, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Carnegie Mellon, ACT, Manhattan School of Music, Berklee, and many more! Her teaching areas included musical theatre, cabaret, acting II/III, devised theatre, audition and monologue coaching, acting for the camera, directing, and rasabox training. A teaching artist for over 20 years in Ohio, New York, and Connecticut, Liz has always considered teaching one of her favorite parts of her career. Currently, Liz produces her New Faces of Cabaret program privately in Connecticut and New York City with solo cabaret artists. Liz also serves on the voice faculty at The Neighborhood Music School where she teaches adults of all ages in groups, the art form of cabaret. In addition, Miss Rubino is a private voice teacher, acting, and audition coach for those serious about pursuing a professional career in the performing arts.

Miss Rubino holds two master’s degrees from New York University, first in Drama Therapy and secondly in Applied Psychology-Clinical Counseling. A registered drama therapist, Liz has led drama therapy groups, guided private clients, presented workshops, and directed autobiographical performances and theatre for social change. She worked in NYC for Creative Alternatives of New York, where she had the opportunity to work with a variety of populations utilizing drama therapy in a unique co-leadership model. Working with domestic violence victims to sexually trafficked teen girls, International refugees, Autism Spectrum disorders, and more, Liz witnessed over and over again the healing power of the arts. She also spent years directing musicals for the Hetrick-Martin Institute with transitional-age homeless LGBTQUIA youth, an extremely rewarding experience. As a licensed psychotherapist in NY and CT, Miss Rubino maintains a private practice online, and previously worked for the PTSD Center in New Haven as a trauma specialist. She also serves as a consultant for Horizons at Sacred Heart University, a group leader, and provides supervision to new counselors.

Liz is a proud member of the Actors’ Equity Association, the National Association for Teachers of Singing, the New York Singing Teachers Association, the North American Drama Therapy Association, the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, the American Counseling Association, and the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs.