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David Ives
David Ives (born July 11, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is best known for writing comic one-act plays, a reputation which resulted in the ''New York Times'' referring to him as the "maestro of the short form".〔Marks, Peter. "Theatre Review; Mere Mortals and Others". ''New York Times''. 13 May 1997〕 Ives has also written dramatic plays, narrative stories, and screenplays.〔Wren, Celia. "Playwright David Ives updates "The Liar" for the Shakespeare Theatre Company". ''The Washington Post''. 4 April 2010〕〔A.G. "The Q&A: David Ives; S&M on Stage." ''The Economist''. 24 May 2012.〕
==Early life==
Ives grew up in a neighborhood of Chicago that was home to a variety of cultures and ethnicities. He wrote his first play when he was nine years old. Ives attended high school at a boys Catholic seminary. It was a strict school, with a challenging course of study. “We would-be priests” Ives has written, “were groomed for gravitas.” The school had a tradition that played a significant role in opening his eyes to theatre: 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. All the teachers attended, and the student body attended in a spirit of great excitement. Ives himself played the role of “the chain-smoking English teacher who coached the track team (while smoking)”. He also wrote a song that mocked another teacher, and sang it for the audience of six hundred. This minor but exciting school event inspired David Ives.〔Ives, David. “Why Write for Theatre?” ''Zeotrope: All Story''. Volume 4, number 4.〕 It was another performance of a high school satire, in a previous century, that similarly inspired playwright Alfred Jarry to write his play, Ubu Roi.〔Fell, JIll. ''Alfred Jarry, an Imagination in Revolt''. Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corp. page 142〕〔Jarry, Alfred. ''Ubu Roi''. Dover. 2003〕 A second event that same year was significant in the same direction — Ives saw a production of Edward Albee’s ''A Delicate Balance'', starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, an experience that so impressed him that the world lost a priest.〔
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