Academic leadership
Faculty
Academic excellence at LASALLE is shaped by an outstanding and diverse community of educators and mentors. Meet the minds behind the learning—artists, designers, educators and researchers from around the world who bring vision, rigour and heart to every programme.
SENIOR FELLOW
Professor Steve Dixon
Professor Steve Dixon - LASALLE College of the Arts
Senior Fellow
Professor Milenko Prvački
Milenko Prvacki
Senior Fellow
Lord David Puttnam

Deans

Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, Media & Creative Industries
Professor Adam Knee
Dean, Faculty of Performing Arts
Professor Leon Rubin
Professor Leon Rubin LASALLE College of the Arts
Dean, Faculty of Design
Associate Professor Nur Hidayah Bte Abu Bakar
Nur Hidayah Bte Abu Bakar LASALLE College of the Arts
Dean, Learning, Teaching & Research
Associate Professor Wolfgang Muench
Dr Wolfgang Muench

Heads of Schools

Head, School of Spatial & Product Design
Ang Xinwei
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Head, Puttnam School of Film & Animation
Chris Shaw
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Head, School of Fashion
Associate Professor Circe Henestrosa
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Head, McNally School of Fine Arts
Associate Professor Cissie Fu
Cissie Fu
Head, School of Creative Industries
Associate Professor Jonathan Gander
Dr Jonathan Gander
Head, School of Dance & Theatre
Melissa Quek
MELISSA QUEK
Head, School of Contemporary Music
Associate Professor Timothy O’Dwyer
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Leon Rubin | Academic Leadership & Faculty at LASALLE Singapore
Dean, Faculty of Performing Arts

Professor Leon Rubin

Professor Leon Rubin LASALLE College of the Arts
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Staffordshire University, UK
  • MA English (Shakespeare studies) McMaster University, Canada
  • BA English and Related Literature University of York, UK
  • Honorary degree University of Theatre and Film ”I.L. Caragiale”, Bucharest, Romania
  • Fellow of Royal Society of Arts, UK Fellow of Royal Asiatic Society, UK
  • Professor Emeritus, University of Essex, UK
  • Honorary Professor, Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS), Moscow

Professor Leon Rubin has recently joined LASALLE, coming from East 15 Acting School, the internationally distinguished conservatoire in London, the UK where he was Director of the school for 13 years. He transformed E15 from a small, UK focused institution into an international powerhouse with staff and students from across the globe. In his final year as Director, the school was top of all three major league tables in the UK: The Times and Sunday Times Good University guide, The Guardian University league table and the National Student Survey (NSS).

He began his career as Assistant Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and was soon after the Associate Director at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

Before joining E15, he was Head of Performing Arts at Middlesex University in the UK and former Artistic Director of three prominent UK theatre companies: Bristol Old Vic, Watford Palace Theatre and Lyric Theatre, Belfast. He has also directed theatre productions for key companies in many parts of the world, including Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, the USA, Canada, Bali, Chile, Scotland, Ireland, the UK and other countries. He directed a long-standing project in Phuket, Thailand, Phuket Fantasea, that (until its temporary suspension due to COVID-19) has been running for over 20 years.

He has a passion for creating international partnerships, has received honours for his teaching from Romania and Russia, and has been a Visiting Professor in Japan, Hong Kong, China, South Korea and other countries.

He also works as a theatre consultant to various organisations in the UK and overseas and has worked on a project for the former king of Thailand.

Read More
  • Rehearsing Shakespeare, Routledge, London (2021)
  • Performance in Bali, Routledge, UK (2007)
  • Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Applause Books, New York (2001)
  • South-East Asian Theatre, Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre (1995)
  • The Nicholas Nickleby Story, Heinemann and Penguin (1981)
  • Director for Shakespeare’s Cymbeline in Bali
  • Director for Handan Dream in London
  • Over 60 theatre productions across the world
  • Performance traditions in Southeast Asia
  • Shakespeare in performance

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