DAF
DAVID ANTHONY FOX
David
Anthony Fox is a Lecturer at the University of
Pennsylvania in Theatre
Arts and English, Director
of New Student Orientation and the Penn
Reading Project, Associate Director of College
Houses and Academic Programs, and webmaster of Penn's
Arts and Culture page. He holds degrees from UCLA
School of Theatre, Film and Television, and has taught and developed educational
programs in the Arts and Humanities at Penn, UCLA, and The University
of Southern California. His areas of expertise are modern American theatre,
musical theatre and opera, and theatre directing. Courses he regularly teaches
include American Musical Theatre,
Variety Arts Theatre, Theatre
of Stephen Sondheim; Three American
Playwrights (Williams, Albee Shepard) and others. For Penn, he has led travel
programs to the Santa Fe Opera and
the Edinburgh International Arts Festival,
as well as yearly London theatre
tours.
As a guest lecturer, Fox has worked
with the Philadelphia
Orchestra, Los Angeles Opera League,
Opera Club of New Jersey, Norton Simon Museum (Los Angeles), Philadelphia Museum
of Art, and others. In 1999, he was the inaugural speaker for the newly formed
Sylvan Opera Company in Philadelphia. He has appeared frequently on National Public
Radio, Radio Times (WHYY/Philadelphia),
The Tom Hall and Ira Fistell shows (KABC/Los Angeles),
and on television (Edie's People, WCAU/CBS).
Fox has been music and sound designer
for the Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven),
Williamstown Theatre Festival,
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Room for
Theatre (Los Angeles), and others. His design work was commended in a Dramalogue
Award for Excellence in the Theatre (1983). For the University of Pennsylvania,
he has directed Curse
of the Starving Class, Cabaret,
The Lady in Question,
The
Skin of our Teeth, and A
Dying Art.
He currently serves as theatre critic for the Philadelphia
City Paper. Additional publications include twenty-six essays in the current
edition of the International Dictionary of Opera (St. James Press), and
feature articles and reviews for Opera
Quarterly, Kurt Weill Quarterly, Pulse Magazine and others. He has
a featured essay in the centenary tribute to Pietro Mascagni's Iris (Circolo
Masini/Debatte Otello, 1998), and has presented papers at scholarly conferences
at UCLA, University of California Riverside and others.
As a University administrator,
Fox previously served as Director of Cultural and Public Service Programs for
the College of General Studies at Penn,
Director of Summer Session
at Penn, and Director of Special Programs for the College of Letters, Arts and
Sciences at USC.
Send email
to dfox@mail.sas.upenn.edu.
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