Oliver Ives Indictor

OLIVER IVES INDICTOR is a Drama League Award Nominated Producer, Screenwriter, and Playwright. Some of Indictor’s recent plays include Gold, which won the Betsy Carpenter Award in 2023 and was workshopped via the FourPlaysAnd Reading Series, and The Archetypes, which was presented as part of the inaugural T4T Festival at The Brick. Current producing credits include Heathers the Musical (Off Broadway) at New World Stages, and scouts at the SoHo Playhouse Lighthouse Series. He holds a Theater BFA from Emerson College, and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch. Follow him on Instagram @oliver.ives99

OLIVER IVES INDICTOR is a Drama League Award Nominated Producer, Screenwriter, and Playwright. Some of Indictor’s recent plays include Gold, which won the Betsy Carpenter Award in 2023 and was workshopped via the FourPlaysAnd Reading Series, and The Archetypes, which was presented as part of the inaugural T4T Festival at The Brick. Current producing credits include Heathers the Musical (Off Broadway) at New World Stages, and scouts at the SoHo Playhouse Lighthouse Series. He holds a Theater BFA from Emerson College, and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch. Follow him on Instagram @oliver.ives99

Scripts

Meat Heads

by Oliver Ives Indictor

Cast Size
6
Genre
dark comedy,
melodrama,
political

When nuclear war devastates the country, 6 teen boys are stranded together in a never-ending final summer at military camp. A play about love, violence, and what it means to be a good American Man.

When nuclear war devastates the country, 6 teen boys are stranded together in a never-ending final summer at military camp. A play about love, violence, and what it means to be a good American Man.

How Sand is Made

by Oliver Ives Indictor

Cast Size
8
Genre
drama

A blended family dissolves back into its composite pieces over one ill-fated beach weekend.

A blended family dissolves back into its composite pieces over one ill-fated beach weekend.

Gold

by Oliver Ives Indictor

Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
tragedy

Marine biologists Gloria (Gogo) Kentfield and Solomon Salmon have spent decades striving to captivate the attention of their aquaticist peers by breeding the perfect goldfish. They continue to do so with the help of their three children, Peter, June and Finn. But when the sudden death of Icarus, their finned frontrunner, disrupts their rise to greatness the children face new questions about what they owe to each...

Marine biologists Gloria (Gogo) Kentfield and Solomon Salmon have spent decades striving to captivate the attention of their aquaticist peers by breeding the perfect goldfish. They continue to do so with the help of their three children, Peter, June and Finn. But when the sudden death of Icarus, their finned frontrunner, disrupts their rise to greatness the children face new questions about what they owe to each other, to their parents, and to their fish. Can they stay afloat together, or is there already too much blood in the water?

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The Archetypes

by Oliver Ives Indictor

Cast Size
3—4
Genre
comedy,
experimental,
political

When an average Joe accidentally brings his script onstage, his long-suffering wife starts making some revisions. As she takes the initiative to rewrite their story, they wrestle with the complex history of their archetypal relationship, and the constraints of the kitchen sink drama they call home.

When an average Joe accidentally brings his script onstage, his long-suffering wife starts making some revisions. As she takes the initiative to rewrite their story, they wrestle with the complex history of their archetypal relationship, and the constraints of the kitchen sink drama they call home.