David Ives 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".
17 Facts About David Ives
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David Ives played the role of "the chain-smoking English teacher who coached the track team ", and he wrote and performed a song.
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David Ives graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971.
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David Ives graduated from the Yale School of Drama with a Master of Fine Arts in 1984.
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In New York Ives worked as an editor for William P Bundy, the editor at Foreign Affairs magazine.
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David Ives wrote three full-length plays: St Freud, The Lives and Deaths of the Great Harry Houdini, and City of God.
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In 1983 David Ives was playwright-in-residence at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts where The Lives and Deaths of the Great Harry Houdini was produced.
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David Ives uses words for their meanings, sounds and associations, spinning conceits of a sort I've not seen or heard before.
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David Ives's plays have been published in the anthologies All in the Timing, Time Flies, and Polish Joke And Other Plays.
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David Ives has continued to base plays on 17th century French plays: in 2017, The School for Lies, based on Moliere's play The Misanthrope, opened at the Lansburgh Theatre in Washington, DC.
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David Ives adapted David Copperfield's magic show, Dreams and Nightmares, which premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre in December 1996.
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David Ives adapted Cole Porter's Jubilee and Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific for concert performances at Carnegie Hall, as well as My Fair Lady for a staged concert at Avery Fisher Hall in New York in 2007.
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David Ives helped to rework the book for the Broadway version of the musical Dance of the Vampires, with book, music and lyrics by Jim Steinman and original German book and lyrics by Michael Kunze.
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David Ives co-wrote the book for Irving Berlin's White Christmas, which premiered in San Francisco in 2004 and then went on to tour across the United States.
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David Ives began collaborating with Stephen Sondheim on a new untitled musical based on two films by Luis Bunuel, initially set to premiere in 2017.
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David Ives wrote The Phobia Clinic, a full-length narrative verse-novel published in 2010.
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David Ives wrote a young adult book, Monsieur Eek, which was released in 2001.