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NORA FOX is a singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, actor, writer, dancer, choreographer and visual artist originally from New England. She began performing at Goodspeed and the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center. By the age of 12, she had dropped out of school to move to New York for a gig in Broadway's The Sound of Music. Fox subsequently resumed a dubious relationship with grade school and today, holds a degree in Literary Arts from Brown University.
Fox recently made her Carnegie Hall debut singing a selection of her music arranged with the Chamber Virtuosi Ensemble. This summer, she played Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare as part of an Opera Festival in Greve in Chianti, Italy. Fox composed and performed for #BARS Theater-in-Verse workshop at the Public Theater with Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal. Her writing has been performed at Anna Deavere Smith’s Institute of the Arts and Civic Dialogue at NYU.
She has also performed at Radio City Music Hall, Joe’s Pub, NY’s Culture Project: Women Center Stage, and NY Musical Festival. Fox has performed/collaborated with Jon Batiste and toured with LA-based rock band Arc Iris as a multi-instrumentalist and dancer. Recently, she composed and acted in Shakespeare in the Woods’ film As You Like It.
An accomplished dancer, Fox has performed and taught at Belarus's International Festival of Dance and Mark O’Connor’s string festival. She has collaborated with Butoh choreographer Takuya Muramatsu at the American Dance Festival, and performed and choreographed for Salt Marsh Opera. She traveled to Bamako, Mali to collaborate with Michelle Bach-Coulibaly’s dance-theater company, New Works/World Traditions.
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