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writing," she recalls. "I wrote a play
because it was the assignment in the
class, and then my professor suggest-
ed that I submit it to the annual ,
Detroit Motion Picture Playwriting
Competition.
"It won first prize, and I got a
cash award as well as the opportunity
to have it produced at Wayne. That
was a wonderful surprise because I
had never written a play before, and
I decided that I was going to be a
professional playwright."
After failed attempts to find an
agent, Dubin gave up writing for 12
years. She taught English at Oakland
University and earned her master's
degree in counseling. Her return to
plays came after writing published
articles on psychological subjects.
Among her produced scripts have
been Ties That Bind at Jeff
Daniels' Purple Rose Theatre
focused on arts and culture. It provides an
in Chelsea and Mirrors at the
umbrella theme for all of Hudson's community
State Fair Theatre in Detroit.
relations programs.
"Teaching makes me a bet-
Also receiving grants are the Detroit
ter writer," says Dubin, whose
Institute of Arts for its First Fridays program;
husband, Larry, teaches law at
Detroit Symphony Orchestra for the Meadow
the University of Detroit
Brook Music Festival; Henry Ford Museum &
Mercy and has appeared as a
Greenfield Village for IMAX Theatre programs;
legal consultant for local news
Michigan Opera Theatre for La Travitzta perfor-
programs. "I'm breaking
mances; and the University Cultural Center
down the elements of struc-
Association for the Detroit Festival of the Arts.
ture, and as I'm teaching, I'm
Five percent of Hudsods federally taxable
also affirming it to myself and
income goes back to the communities it serves.
clarifying the process."
Each time people shop at Hudson's, they contribute
The Dubins, whose son,
to these arts and cultural community progams.
Nick, is a communications
An ornate gold frame was chosen as the
major at Oakland University,
Project Imagine Symbol to represent a window
recently renewed their mar-
on arts and culture and the limitless scope of
riage vows to celebrate their
the imagination.
30th anniversary. Although
-- Suzanne Chessler
they are members of the
Birmingham Temple, they
decided to repeat their vows
in a friend's home.
"Giving myself a unified focus
through writing and teaching about
theater has been a big change in my
life," says Dubin, a member of the
Detroit Women Writers Dramatists
Guild. "I really like the combina-
tion." ❑

John Tanasychuk Detroit Free Press
January 8th, 1999

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