After many years writing and performing with improvisational theater companies in Chicago as well as scripting industrial films and children's television, Danny Rubin began writing screenplays, including Hear No Evil, S.F.W., and Groundhog Day.

Rubin has taught screenwriting throughout the US and internationally, and from 2008-2013 served as the first Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on Screenwriting at Harvard University.

In 2017 Groundhog Day: The Musical earned Rubin and composer/lyricist Tim Minchin the Olivier Award for Best New Musical in London, and on Broadway garnered 7 Tony nominations including Best Musical and Best Book to a Musical.

Rubin holds a BA in biology from Brown University and an MA in Radio, Television, and Film from Northwestern University. He is married to librarian, web-designer and architect Louise Rubin with whom he shares a home in New Mexico, two children, and a bunch of guitars.