Russell Fox

Russell Fox is the author of two novels, AUGURIES and RAINVILLE, as well as two collections of plays, MYSTERY PLAYS and THE NOYES PLAYS: THE TRUE HISTORY OF JOHN HUMPHREY NOYES AND THE ONEIDA COMMUNITY, a history play in two parts. His most recent book is the nonfiction THE SALT CITY PLAYHOUSE: AN ITINERANCE 1979-1981, an account of his three years as a stagehand at the Syracuse regional theater.

Fox's octavo works include several volumes of poetry, a musical comedy for children entitled THE VERY LAST DRAGON, and a monograph, THE DEATH OF RUMPELSTILTSKIN: NOTES FOR A LAW LECTURE. These books, together with scored song collections and libretti, are available as downloads on the author's website, ANCIENTLIGHTSBOOKS.COM.

Fox grew up in the farmlands south of Syracuse, and much of his fiction and nonfiction has been set in upstate New York. The dialogue of THE NOYES PLAYS, a two part history play, is a dramatization adapted from the extensive record of journals, tracts, and other writings left by the members of the Oneida Community, and is thus "a true history, told in the words of the people who made it." His recent prose "Itinerance" is a memoir of three critical years in the history of the Salt City Playhouse, when the theater was cut off by creditors and struggled to survive. To date, THE SALT CITY PLAYHOUSE is the only book about the theater founded by Joseph and Patricia Lotito, which had a 35 year run entertaining Syracuse audiences and giving local actors, designers, and playwrights a first opportunity to have their work presented on a public stage.

Russell Fox is a lawyer and lives in Buffalo, New York.