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David Ives
American playwright
For the television executive, see David O. Ives.
David Ives (born July 11, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist.
He 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".[1] Ives has also written dramatic plays, narrative stories, and screenplays, has adapted French 17th and 18th-century classical comedies, and adapted 33 musicals for New York City's Encores! series.[2][3]
Early life and education
Ives wrote his first play when he was nine.
He attended a boys Catholic seminary.
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"We would-be priests were groomed for gravitas," he has said. At the end of the year the seniors could be a part of a school show called "The Senior Mock," in which the students satirized the teachers. Ives played the role of "the chain-smoking English teacher who coached the track team (while smoking)", and he wrote and performed a song.