David Ives (born 1950) is a contemporary American playwright. A native of South Chicago, Ives attended a minor Catholic seminary and Northwestern University and, after some years' interval, Yale School of Drama, where he received an MFA in playwriting. In the interval between Northwestern and Yale he worked for three years as an editor at Foreign Affairs magazine.
Ives' plays often consist only of one act, and are often comedies. His first play i...
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David Ives (born 1950) is a contemporary American playwright. A native of South Chicago, Ives attended a minor Catholic seminary and Northwestern University and, after some years' interval, Yale School of Drama, where he received an MFA in playwriting. In the interval between Northwestern and Yale he worked for three years as an editor at Foreign Affairs magazine.
Ives' plays often consist only of one act, and are often comedies. His first play in New York was Canvas, at the Circle Repertory Company in 1972, followed at the same theatre by Saint Freud in 1975.
He first attracted the critics' notice, however, in the late 1980s with a string of one-act comedies that began to appear annually in the Manhattan Punch Line's yearly one-act play festival. Those plays, along with others written later, formed the evenings, All in the Timing, Mere Mortals, and Lives of the Saints. Among the best-known of his one-act comedies are Sure Thing, Words, Words, Words, Variations on the Death of Trotsky...
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