David Ives
DAVID IVES is probably best known for his evenings of one-act comedies called All In The Timing and Time Flies. All In The Timing won the Outer Critics Circle Playwriting Award, ran for two years Off-Broadway, and in the 1995-96 season was the most performed play in the country after Shakespeare productions. His full-length plays include Venus In Fur, which recently enjoyed a vast critical and audience success Off-Broadway; New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza, which won the prestigious Hull-Warriner Award; Is He Dead? (adapted from Mark Twain); Irving Berlin's White Christmas; Polish Joke; and Ancient History. He has translated Feydeau's classic farce A Flea In Her Ear as well as Yazmina Reza's drama A Spanish Play, and his translation/adaptation of Pierre Corneille's The Liar premieres this spring at Washington's Shakespeare Theatre Company. He is also the author of three young-adult novels, Monsieur Eek, Scrib, and Voss. A graduate of Yale School of Drama and a former Guggenheim Fellow in playwriting, he lives in New York City. Bio as of May, 2010. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) Roles for Ourselves: Playwrights 2010 - March, 2010 - Watch now. The Evolution of Encores! - January, 2007 - Watch now. Playwright and Director - September, 1994 - Watch now. Downstage Center (audio) David Ives - March, 2008 - Listen Now. Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)