Arthur Kaufman, composer
Art Kaufman has a degree in music (minor in theater) from UCLA and has extensive theatrical experience. Art scored his first one-act musical, "There's the Rub," produced at UCLA. He performed in the Occidental College Repertory Theater and studied for two years in the Lehman Engle BMI musical theater workshop. He has also served on the board of directors for the Neil Simon Festival in Cedar City, Utah. Acting roles include Frederick, "Pirates of Penzance"; Pish Tush, "Mikado"; Anselmo, "Man of LaMancha"; Tony, "West Side Story"; Kodaly, "She Loves Me"; and Roy, The "Odd Couple."
Art (aka David Fox) is owner of Magic Key Productions, a recording facility specializing in song-poem production, jingles for radio and TV, voiceovers and music for motion pictures. Art is a multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. He is most well known for starring in the acclaimed award winning PBS cult documentary "Off The Charts: The Song-Poem Story" which features four of his compositions.
He has also toured doing song-poem shows as a performance artist in New York, Chicago and San Fransisco with his band "David Fox and the Song Sharks." He has been featured in the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly magazine, the Austin Chronicle and been interviewed on NPR, CBC in Canada and WFMU in New York.
In his spare time he and his wife write tribute songs for hospice patients for Zions Way hospice in southern Utah.
