# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-ives
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:57:17.972Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-ives"
name: "David Ives"
slug: "david-ives"
description: "David Ives 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\". 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."
tagline: "American playwright"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-07-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.583589333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0412328/"
    handle:    "nm0412328"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B2"
    title: "دايفيد إيفز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A2%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B2"
    title: "دافيد آيفز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "دیوید ایوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ives"
    title: "David Ives"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ives"
    title: "David Ives"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%99%D7%99%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%91%D7%A1"
    title: "דייוויד אייבס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ives"
    title: "David Ives"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ives"
    title: "David Ives"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2893202"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1177058"
    title: "David Ives"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump