Ira’s theatrical work has been performed at The Kennedy Center, Samuel French OOB, #Serials @ The Flea, Chashama, Short & Sweet Sydney, Collaboraction (at the Steppenwolf Garage), F*It Club, Source Festival, Single Carrot, The Australian Broadcast Corporation, and The Chicago New Media Summit (among many other places around the globe). In 2006, City Paper voted Ira “Best Playwright Of Baltimore”. In 2009, Dated: A Cautionary Tale For Facebook Users was a New York Innovative Theater Award nominee for best short play. Ira has received playwriting grants from the Maryland State Arts Council and Chicago Union League. BILLY BITCHASS is published in THE BEST 10 MINUTE PLAYS OF 2016 by Smith & Kraus.
Ira holds an MFA in playwriting from Ohio University and a BA in Acting from Towson University.
Below please find links to download PDFs of Ira's short plays:
Click here to read BILLY BITCHASS
(1M 2F) A boy with no name runs away with a puppy who can’t understand sadness.
Click here to read Did This Matter?
(2M 1F) Robby is ready to kill himself. Can the special one-armed mystery guest change Robby's mind?
Click here to read The Best Secret Santa Present Ever In The History Of Peckinpaw High School
(2M 1F) Holy Crap. Patrick just pulled Chrissy Summerfit for the Peckinpaw High School Secret Santa Holiday Gift Exchange! Like Chrissy Summerfit: the girl he's totally had a crush on for years. Like Chrissy Summerfit: the girl who is completely out of his league. Like Chrissy Summerfit: The girl he intends to take to the holiday dance! Will he woo her with the perfect gift or wind up dancing alone?
Click here to read The Queen Fairy & The Darkness
(2M 1F) When the "lighting elves" at The Peckinpaw Children's Players accidentally cut the lights in the middle of her show, Ms. Fairy must give the audience hope that the queen fairy is still alive... even though there is an abundance of evidence to the contrary.
Click here to read I'll Hear It When I See It
(2M) It's the day after the JFK/ Nixon debate and Tad's got a broken radio.
Read Ira's contributions to Howlround:
"Kill New Play Deniers": http://howlround.com/kill-new-play-deniers
"Playwrights On Podcasts": http://howlround.com/playwrights-on-podcasts