New Playwright Series: David Ives
Join us for the first of our new monthly playwright series. This month's playwright is David Ives. Selections will be read from Ives upcoming Broadway production of
Venus in Fur as well as a Q&A moderated be David Finkle. Book signing to follow.
David Ives is perhaps 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 and ran for two years Off-Broadway. 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 and was presented by Washington’s Theatre J this spring;
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 has adapted 28 musical for Encores!. 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.
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