Ira Hauptman's plays have been performed in New York at the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Ensemble Studio Theatre and the International Cringefest; in Los Angeles at the Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theater, FirstStage, Odyssey and Moving Arts; in Berkeley at the Aurora Theatre; and in San Francisco at the Magic Theatre. His plays have also been produced in Paris, Brussels and Bangalore. He has received two play commissions from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project. The first was for Partition, about the early twentieth century mathematicians Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy. The second was for Starry Messenger. He has also written for Partisan Review and The New Republic. Hauptman is a graduate of Yale Drama School and teaches at Queens College.
