David Ives

"If I knew Ives", says Kirpatrick from the Wall Street journal, "I would stay away from him on April Fools Day". David Ives, 44, has been writing plays ever since he
was a student at Northwestern University.

David Ives

After graduating, Ives moved to New York where the Circle Repertory Company produced one of his early works, "Canvas".

A few years after, he took on the job as an editor for Foreign Affairs. He continued to write plays and short stories and decided, in 1981, to enroll in Yale Drama School where he received his M.F.A. "Slowly, his plays began to be produced. Several of the sketches from "All In The Timing" ("Words, Words, Words"; "Sure Thing"; "PhilipGlass Buys A Loaf of Bread", and "Variations on the Death of Trotsky") were staged at the Manhattan Punch Line's Festival of One-Act Comedies. The two-act, "Ancient History", was produced by Primary Stages in 1988, and Ensemble Studio Theatre staged "Mere Mortals" and "Long Ago and Far Away" in 1989 and 1993".

A new play came out in March titled "Don Juan in Chicago". In which Ives just received the Outer Critics Circle's John Gassner Playwrighting Award and a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Play for the production. It is about a man who sells his soul to the devil "in exchange for mortality, hoping to use the extra time to find the meaning of life. . . this outlandish comedy is a frenetic bawdy joy ride, even with hell as its destination." (Don Juan Irresistible) But, Ives has received more than one award- he was named winner of the 1994 George and Elisabeth Martin Playwrighting Award from Young Playwrights Inc., and New York Times Magazine has named Ives one the "100 Smartest New Yorkers". He is also "an extraordinary teacher", say his Columbia University colleagues.

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