About Us
Who we are and what we value
Mission and Vision
Sixth Line Studios is dedicated to producing excellent work for its audiences and being deeply kind to its artists.
We believe in fostering excellent communication between staff and visiting artists during the creative process. We are committed to meeting the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical needs of our short term visiting artistic teams as well as our long term administrative staff.
Our strong artistic commitment is to making work that inspires, challenges and awakens our audiences all within a context of safety and inclusion.
With our talkbacks, classes and lectures we foster intelligent, educated, inclusive conversations within the community, using the shows we make as jumping off points for these conversations.
We are committed to equity and inclusion across the race and gender spectrums and will illustrate this with our hiring practices, play selection process, and topics for discussion in our community events.
We see theater as a doorway to difficult and potentially life-changing, heart-opening, and connective conversations between individuals.
Meet our Staff
Katie Rubin
Artistic Director
Katie Rubin is the Producing Artistic Director of Sixth Line Studios (sixthlinestudios.org), a professional regional theater company producing original and contemporary work at The Village Theatre and Art Gallery in Danville. She hires professional actors, directors, and designers from the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York City. Supported generously by the Town of Danville, Sixth Line Studios also produces a wide range of community-centered arts programming including staged reading series, live jazz performances, outdoor fashion events, and an upcoming improv comedy festival. Rubin created Sixth Line Studios as a culmination of more than 25 years working across nearly every facet of the performing arts — as an actor, writer, director, teacher, producer, and creative leader.
A longtime member of Actors' Equity Association, Rubin spent over two decades as a working professional actor, with stage credits at the Aurora Theatre Company, SF Playhouse, Capital Stage, The B Street Theatre and many others (full acting bio: katietherubin.com). She taught Acting, Improv, and Stand-Up Comedy Writing for over 15 years at institutions including but not limited to: Stanford University, The American Conservatory Theater, Capital Stage and additional institutions throughout California, while simultaneously writing, producing, touring, and performing six original solo shows over a ten-year period and directing numerous solo works by other writer-performers. Rubin is also the founder of Sixth Line Designs, an interior design firm and collaborative referral platform that connects home owners and businesses with design professionals whose individual talents best match each project’s needs. Learn more about her design work at sixthlinedesigns.com
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