Byrne Piven

Actor

Male

Born Sep 24, 1929

Hometown Scranton, Pennsyl...

Died Feb 18, 2002

Death Place Evanston, Illinois

Byrne Piven was an influential American stage actor, director, and co-founder of the Playwrights Theatre Club, a forerunner of The Second City.

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Joyce Piven
Married

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Byrne Piven

d.2002

children

Jeremy Piven
Son, Age 47
Shira Piven

Daughter

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An Interview With Jeremy Piven, Star Of 'Mr. Selfridge' New York Times
Google News - Mar 29, 2013

New York Times An Interview With Jeremy Piven, Star of 'Mr. Selfridge' New York Times JEREMY PIVEN IS BEST KNOWN as the venal, tantrum-throwing superagent Ari Gold on HBO's hit comedy “Entourage”; as an alumnus of the Piven Theater Workshop in Chicago, founded by his parents, Joyce and Byrne Piven; and as the center of a highly ... Jeremy Piven's niece mocks his "Mr. Selfridge" beardChicago Sun-Times (blog) PBS seeks Downton-esque Brit hit with Call the M...
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Evanston's Piven Marks 40 Years Of Theater Lincolnshire Review
Google News - Jun 14, 2011

Maya Friedler, who is being honored as a representative of the Friedler Family, has been involved with the workshop since Joyce and the late Byrne Piven started it forty years ago. “We were neighbors in Evanston,” Friedler related
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Away From The Entourage But Not From The Whirl
NYTimes - Oct 19, 2008

JEREMY PIVEN was in repose, sort of. Dressed in a charcoal gray hoodie, both hands hugging an oversize mug of Guatemalan yerba maté tea, Mr. Piven was curled up on a couch in his rented Chelsea apartment one recent Saturday morning, the Alison Krauss-Robert Plant bluegrass album playing softly on his stereo. Is he really this chill? Nope. ''I was
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A Night Out With The 'Fat Pig' Guys; Big Helpings Of Denial And Oinks All Round
NYTimes - Nov 26, 2004

It was a scene that had all the elements of a classic boys' night out. The meat was red and so was the wine. There were movie stars, cigars and Bruce Willis holding court in the next room. And the subject was that most elusive and manly of topics: themselves. ''I love being a guy because I don't have to date them,'' said Neil LaBute, the bearded
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1929 Birth Born on September 24, 1929.

TWENTIES

1954 24 Years Old Piven was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He came to Chicago in 1954 and met Joyce Hiller at the University of Chicago. … Read More

FORTIES

1972 42 Years Old In 1972, he and his wife started the Piven Theatre Workshop, partly to supplement their incomes, and partly to have something for their children to do after school. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

2002 72 Years Old Died on February 18, 2002.

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