Irv Bauer

Bauer went to DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, and then enrolled in New York University, earning a bachelor's degree in Journalism. While there he studied with and was mentored by Haig P. Manoogian.^[2]

Upon graduation, Bauer started working in public relations at Grey Advertising. Soon afterwards, he left New York for Paris, France to pursue a career in dramatic writing and cinema. In Paris, he started working as an actor and began writing. He came back to New York to secure financing for a project with Philippe Gérard.^[3] In 1970, his first play, A Dream Out of Time starring Sam Levene, who made his Off-Broadway debut at the Promenade Theatre on upper Broadway, 43 years after he made his Broadway debut in 1927. In Seattle, A Fine and Private Place, an adaptation of a novel by Peter S. Beagle.^[4] Among other popular plays by Bauer are Bullies House^[2] Rollin on the Toba,^[5] and Young and Eager.^[6] Bauer wrote The Ladies' Tailor of Babi Yar, first presented by the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ, a story of a Jewish and a Russian family set against the backdrop of Babi Yar Massacres.^[7]

Bauer taught screenwriting and playwrighting at the graduate and undergraduate level at New York University, Sarah Lawrence College and University of Washington. He conducted workshops and classes in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Spoleto, Italy, London and Sydney and Brisbane.^[8] Bauer also taught at The Juilliard School and University of Washington.^[3][9]

Written just prior to his death in July 2015, Bauer's book Screenwriting Fundamentals: The Art and Craft of Visual Writing was published by Routledge in 2016. It details his ten step method to developing and constructing a screenplay.^[10]