Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

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.