Bio: Paul Ruben
Paul Ruben has produced and directed award winning audio books for every major publisher since 1987. Paul received the 2003 Grammy Award (Best Spoken Word Album) as producer/director for Al Franken’s Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. APA (Audio Publishers Association) Audie awards for best audio book production in its category include: It’s Not About the Bike, Raymond and Hannah, Brimstone, The World is Flat, A Slight Trick of the Mind. In 2005 Paul was elected to the Audio Publishers Association Board of Directors. Paul has conducted audio book narration seminars for local New York and Washington, D.C. AFTRA members. Over the past decade he has cast and directed numerous first-time audio book performers, many of whom have become outstanding and award-winning working narrators, including: Oliver Wyman, Holter Graham, Maggie-Meg Reed, Kathleen McInerney, Eliza Foss, David Ledoux, Beth McDonald, Cassandra Morris, Don Leslie, and Pete Larkin. Paul earned a BA degree in Theatre from Yankton College, (S.D.) and an MA in Speech Communications from Bowling Green State University (Ohio). He has directed professional summer theatre productions in suburban Chicago and periodically contributes features on audio book narration to Audiofile Magazine.
Cast for Raymond and Hannah, L to R, Producer/Drector Paul Ruben,
Mara DeMay-Lawler, Rebecca Honig, Kathleen McInerney,
David LeDoux, Paula Parker, Oliver Wyman, (Studio owner) John Cheary