In Between Math Homework, Ella Rubin Makes Her Broadway Debut

Ella Rubin is in the midst of her senior year of high school; between planning for the prom and rallying her classmates to join the Young Democrats branch she started, she also happens to be making her debut on Broadway. “I kind of like to juggle a lot at once. It helps me to not overthink, to a painful extent,” Rubin says, from the below-ground nook that is St. Kilda Coffee, a favorite of hers near the American Airlines theater where she spends most of her time these days. “I’ll be scribbling some math homework during intermission.” Rubin attends a New York City high school for working students — “yeah we’re doing prom, but then some people are going home early because they have to be on set the next day,” which lends itself well to her balance of homework and her role in Tennessee Williams’ “The Rose Tattoo.” The 18-year-old stars as Rosa, Marisa Tomei’s 15-year-old daughter in a role that brings her full circle: her first acting job, at age 11, was playing Tomei’s daughter in the movie “The Rewrite” with Hugh Grant. “I met her in the final callback,” she says, of reuniting with her maternal figure. “She took a beat

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