Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.

David Ives (Chicago July 11 1950 – ) is a contemporary American playwright. A native of South Chicago Ives attended a minor Catholic seminary and Northwestern University and after some years' interval Yale School of Drama where he received an MFA in playwriting.