​Ruby Lee Lowenstein is an actor and writer from Ann Arbor, MI. They currently live in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with their partner, two roommates, and five house plants. In their free time, they enjoy making soup and practicing Aikido. They survived two cancers this past year. :)
Ruby holds a BA in Drama and Literature from Bennington College (advisors Sherry Kramer and Dina Janis). They studied Yiddish language and culture for two consecutive summers through the Steiner Summer Yiddish Program at the Yiddish Book Center in 2018 and 2019 and for a third summer through the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at YIVO in 2021. They have held internships with Puppet Showplace Theater, New Yiddish Rep Theater, the Wexler Oral History Project, Poetry Flash: Literary Review and Calendar for the West, and spent a while as a farm hand.
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​Ruby has completed seven full length plays, two short plays, and a collection of poems. They are a founding member of the queer, Yiddish theater collective, GLYK (2022, 2023). A staged reading of their play Holy One, partially adapted into Yiddish, was produced by GLYK at The Jalopy theater (2024). A monologue from their play Cyclops In Love was published in the Smith & Kraus anthology, WE/US: 100 Monologues for the Gender Minority (2022). They had the honor of directing the premiere and subsequent performances of Vos Flist Durkhn Oder by Mikhl Yashinsky (2022, 2023), a dream come true for them creatively. Their short plays The Men and Life of Shmuel have been featured in Equity Library Theater of New York's Virtual Play Festivals (2022, 2023). The world premiere of their play Salt Off A Bird’s Tail was held in Bennington's Secret Garden in the spring of 2021.