David Ives

David Ives was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play for his play Venus in Fur, which premiered at Classic Stage Company before moving to Broadway. The play has since been produced all over the country and the world, and turned into a film by Roman Polanski that premiered in 2013 at the Cannes Film Festival.

Other plays of David Ives that premiered at Classic Stage: New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza (winner of the prestigious Hull-Warriner Award) and The School for Lies (adapted from Molière’s Misanthrope), as well as his translation of Yasmina Reza’s A Spanish Play. David Ives’s adaptation of Alexis Piron’s The Metromaniacs will appear in Washington D.C. at the Shakespeare Theatre this season. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow in playwriting and lives in New York City.