While at Yale, Rabb sang with the Whiffenpoofs and performed in numerous productions, eventually finding himself in New York, where he continued to act and sing both Off-Broadway (Fermat's Last Tango).
Rabb has also published a string of short stories, essays, reviews and op-eds in Strand Magazine, The Oxford American, Opera News, The Huffington Post and in the series ‘I Wish I’d Been There.’ (Doubleday).
Rabb has taught at Columbia University, NYU, the 92nd Street Y and, in 2010, he joined the writing department faculty at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
[4] Shadow and Light (2009) takes place in 1927, when an executive at the newly-famous Ufa film studios is found dead.
[5][6] The Second Son (2011) is set later, before the 1936 Olympics, and continues the story Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner's life as his family's fortunes come up against the Nazi regime.