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David Ives

American playwright

For the television executive, see David O. Ives.

David Ives (born July 11, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is perhaps best known for his comic one-act plays; The New York Times in 1997 referred to him as the "maestro of the short form".^[1] Ives has also written dramatic plays, narrative stories, and screenplays, has adapted French 17th and 18th-century classical comedies, and adapted 33 musicals for New York City's Encores! series.^[2]^[3]

Early life and education

Ives wrote his first play when he was nine. He attended a boys Catholic seminary. "We would-be priests were groomed for gravitas," he has said. At the end of the year the seniors could be a part of a school show called "The Senior Mock," in which the students satirized the teachers. Ives played the role of "the chain-smoking English teacher who coached the track team (while smoking)", and he wrote and performed a song. This school experience, along with seeing a production of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance

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Chicago-born David Ives attended college at Northwestern University and then studied at the Yale School of Drama. He began his playwriting career in the early 1970’s, and has produced a varied body of work, including screen plays, full-length dramas, and short comic sketches. Many of the latter have been produced at Manhattan Punch Line Theater, Lincoln Center, the Williamstown Theater Festival, and Ensemble Studio Theater.

Among his longer works are the full-length plays Ancient History (1989), which he describes as a two-act "screwball tragedy," and The Red Address, a tragicomic study of transvestitism and sexual identity produced at the Magic Theater in San Francisco in 1991.

Ives has also written for television, serving as staff writer for Fox TV's Urban Anxiety. In addition, he wrote the libretto for the opera, The Secret Garden, which premiered at the Pennsylvania Opera Theater in 1991.
A humor columnist as well as a playwright, Ives's comic musings have appeared frequently in the pages of The New York Times. In one piece, he sketches o

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David Ives was born in Chicago in 1950 and educated at Northwestern University and Yale School of Drama. A 1995 Guggenheim Fellow in playwriting, he is probably best known for his evening of one-act comedies called All in the Timing, which ran for over 600 performances off-Broadway and was subsequently presented in many cities here and abroad. The show won the Outer Critics Circle Playwriting Award, was included in “The Best Plays of 1993-94,” and in the 1995-96 season was the most-performed play in the country after Shakespeare productions. It has been translated into German, French, Italian, Brazilian and other languages.

Another evening of short comedies, Mere Mortals, enjoyed a long off-Broadway run in 1997-98. A third evening of one-acts called Lives Of The Saints has premiered in Philadelphia. Vintage has published a volume of David Ives’ short comedies under the title All in the Timing: Fourteen Short Plays. A follow-up anthology has appeared from GroveAtlantic titled Time Flies: Thirteen Short Plays. Four of David Ives’s short