Joshua Rudrananda Rubin was born in Manhattan, raised in an Ashram in Bloomington, Indiana, and spent his teenage years in Hollywood. His education at Hampshire College was broken up by three years of traveling the world from Paris to Transylvania to the Himalayas.
His writing career has been equally as peripatetic, taking him from his roots in playwriting and fiction, through a gig writing Astrology books, to a year as Entertainment Editor at Russell Simmons’ 360HipHop.com.
But these days, Joshua is well established as an award-winning science fiction writer, focusing on film, TV and video games.
He is best known for co-writing the video game Assassin’s Creed II, a sequel to the phenomenally successful game franchise, for Ubisoft in Montreal.
For his work on the game, Joshua and his co-writers were nominated for:
- A WGA Award (Writers Guild) for Best Video Game Writing
- A BAFTA Award (British Academy Award) for Best Game Story
- And an IAA Award (Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences) for Outstanding Achievement in Original Story.
Recently, Joshua was the sole writer for a Major Unannounced Sequel from Visceral Studios at EA Games. (A hint…)
Just before that, Joshua sold The Four, a pitch for a TV show, to the SyFy Channel, and developed the pilot with the execs behind Battlestar Galactica.
His feature adaptation of the Anime Kite - a dark, sexual sci-fi thriller for producer Rob Cohen – will be helmed by Mexico City-based directors Jorge and Javier Aguilera.
In 2000, his first screenplay, Annanina, was selected as a Top-5 finalist for the Motion Picture Academy’s prestigious Nichol Fellowship (out of some 4000 screenplays).
In addition to these, he has been hired to write The American Knight, a WWI adventure love story for Ascendant Pictures; Lain, an adaptation of the celebrated Japanese Anime for SekretAgent Productions; Future Force X, a children’s science fiction adventure, also for Ascendant Pictures; and his original Crocs vs. Sharks creature-feature, for Material Entertainment and New Line.
Currently, Joshua is creating a major new unannounced IP for a AAA game company.
He is represented for Film, TV and Video Games by UTA United Talent Agency, Beverly Hills.
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