David Ives is the author of a collection of one-act comedies, All in the Timing (1994). His other plays include Ancient History (1990), Time Flies (2001), New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza (2008), Is He Dead? (2008, adapted from Mark Twain), The Liar (2010, adapted from Corneille), The Heir Apparent (2010, adapted from Regnard’s Le Légataire universel), and Venus in Fur (Northwestern, 2011).