Reva Fox is still considered a newcomer to Milwaukee. She is a director that hails from Los Angeles and Philadelphia but is now settled here in Milwaukee. In September 2007, she directed a reading for us of Miss Julie and The Stronger. She then went on to direct Schluoss for the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival. In Philadelphia, she was the Director of the Theatre Arts Program at Arcadia University. There, her directing work included: Savage in Limbo, Once on this Island, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Other Philly credits include several short plays for Hisoric Philadelphia Inc., Same Old Story for the Philly Fringe Festival, Stags and Hens for the University of the Arts, Lysistrata for the Worldwide Lysistrata Project, and a reprisal of Same Old Story for Ladeyfest Philly. Reva is an alumnae of the Lincoln Center Theatre’s Director’s Lab and her work in New York City includes directing The Sparrow Project for the Extremely Staged Series for the Hypothetical Theatre Company and Producing Eighteen and HERE as part of the LCT Director’s Lab. Also at the Lincoln Center, Reva was the Assistant Director, Gordon Davidson on the show, QED starring Alan Alda.
In Los Angeles, she was a founding member of and resident director for the award winning Subterranean Theatre Company where she directed Wyoming, The Bastard Child of Eval Kineval, Noises Off and Heaven and Home, for which she won two Drama-Logue awards and was nominated for a GLAAD award for Best Production in Los Angeles. She directed Forget me Not for the Attic Theatre and Genet’s The Maids for Theatre Pangaea. She also wrote, directed and produced numberous shows for Universal Studios Hollywood Theme Park including The Denver Street Stunt Show, The New Animal Actors Stage Show, and the Halloween Horror Night Shows: Chucky’s Insult Emporium and Animal House…of Horrors. She spent a year with the Center Theatre Group in LA and had the honor of working with Sir Peter Hall as as production assistant on Romeo and Juliet and with The CTG’s Artistic Director, Gordon Davidson, as assistant to the director on the Mark Taper Forum world-premiere show, QED. As an actor, Reva has appeared most recently in The Vagina Monologues in Philadelphia, Land of the White Foreheads, in Los Angeles, and has appeared in numerous voice-over projects including, being all the chicken noises heard at Universal Studios Theme Park.
