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	The Daily Northwestern {02.22.2002} (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Byrne Piven, 72, an Evanston acting teacher and Chicago theater icon, died Monday after a four-month battle with cancer.
		Piven was a generous man. In addition to an illustrious career in theater and small roles in films, he spent much of his life teaching hundreds of children and adults his intense version of the acting craft.
		Piven settled in Evanston in the late 1960s and ran the Piven Theatre Workshop with his wife, Joyce, for the past 30 years.
	www.dailynorthwestern.com /daily/issues/2002/02/22/forum/f-citywatch.shtml (581 words)

	PerformInk Online
		Byrne Piven was born in Scranton, Penn., on Sept. 24, 1929.
		Byrne wanted to teach everybody he came in contact with, which could be maddening at times.
		She also told about Byrne rolling down the windows of his car and yelling at people he thought were driving wrong.
	www.performink.com /Archives/obituaries/ByrnePivenObitFinal.html (1002 words)

	Artbeat Chicago, Byrne Piven \| WTTW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Is Byrne Piven your father?' Yes, yes he is.' 'Everything that I teach comes from your father,' he says.
		Joyce and Byrne Piven are a wonderful married couple that live in Evanston and are parents of Jeremy and Shira, and run the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston, Illinois.
		There's so many people that want to be actors and that's not really even what the gift of that workshop is, because it's so much about being a person, and thinking about life on that level that they were able to concentrate on: developing people that are confident, that are healthy.
	www.wttw.com /artbeat/byrne.html (953 words)

	RoundTable of Evanston Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Byrne never held his passion for the arts within the walls; it spilled out into the community." She added, "Ensemble work that emphasized coming together and being the best that you can be" represented the legacy of Mr.
		Piven established 30 years ago, left its mark on the national arts community with the nurturing of such actors as Jeremy Piven, John and Joan Cusack, Aidan Quinn and Lili Taylor.
		Piven was "very passionate about his art and passed that along to his students." Said Jeremy Piven, "My parents were nurtured by the success of every one of their students."
	www.evanstonroundtable.com /rt2002/Roundtable091102 (2310 words)

	The Daily Northwestern {01.30.2001} (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Evanston Mayor Lorraine Morton, who attended the event and is a friend of the Pivens, said she enjoyed the video retrospective of Byrne Piven's work that was shown.
		Piven said he and Joyce have toyed with the idea of moving the workshop to its own building someday, but face new problems.
		Piven's career longevity, 50 years and counting, often is unmatched in theater.
	www.dailynorthwestern.com /daily/issues/2001/01/30/city/piven.shtml (1151 words)

	Jeremy Piven Home Page - Biography
		Born on the 26th July 1965, in New York, Jeremy Piven is an actor of extraordinary talent.
		His parents, Joyce Piven and the late Byrne Piven, founded the Piven Theatre Workshop.
		A wonderful article about Byrne Piven's life can be read here and also Jeremy's recollections of his father from the Network Chicago archives.
	www.hosking-online.com /jeremypiven/biography.htm (348 words)

	Jeremy Piven Home Page - National Post Article Oct 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is lunchtime on the Toronto set of Serendipity, the upcoming John Cusack romantic comedy, and Jeremy Piven is sitting with his legs crossed on a chair, eating peas and rice with a plastic fork.
		Piven's acting career was inspired by his parents, Chicago theatre legends Joyce and Byrne Piven, who settled in nearby Evanston, Ill., when Jeremy was four.
		Piven had a movie offer, too, but turned it down for summer camp and had not given up a childhood dream of being a football player.
	www.hosking-online.com /jeremypiven/National.htm (1153 words)

	Byrne Piven
		With his wife (Joyce Piven), Piven was the co-recipient of the 2000 Joseph Jefferson Award for lifetime achievement.
		The Pivens are co-artistic directors of the Piven Theatre Workshop (which runs one of the North Shore's better series), settling into Evanston after a career in touring theatre.
		Their children, Shira and Jeremy Piven, are both actors.
	centerstage.net /theatre/whoswho/ByrnePiven.html (95 words)

	Sweet ~/ Chicago: February 2002 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Piven had established an acting workshop in Evanston that, during its 30 years, shaped the work of such prominent stage and film actors as John, Joan and Ann Cusack; Lili Taylor; Aidan Quinn and the Pivens' two children, Shira and Jeremy.
		Piven in the hospital, said: "He was very ill, but he had such a big heart that he sort of willed himself into consciousness while we all were there.
		Piven won the best actor prize of the Joseph Jefferson Awards in 1979 for his portrayal of a burned-out, alcoholic, old Greenwich Village poet in "The Man in 605," a play by Alan Gross, a former student in the Piven workshop.
	www.windycitymike.com /archives/2002/02 (3650 words)

	Jeremy Piven, Employing His Acting Skills (washingtonpost.com)
		Piven, 38, knows from entourages, having witnessed a few over the course of his nearly 20-year career.
		He learned to act from his parents, Joyce and the late Byrne Piven, classically trained actors who ran the famed Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago, which trained the likes of Jeremy and his sister and the Cusack clan.
		Jeremy Piven in his trailer on the set of "Entourage," a new HBO series in which he plays a high-powered Hollywood agent.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A48350-2004Jul13.html (1548 words)

	Lucia Mauro - Arts Writer Reviews
		But Piven Theatre’s unobtrusively "elemental" staging opts to place Lear on an intimate and human level in which the ruler must confront his own mortality.
		Byrne Piven, the heralded founder of this respected Evanston theater, approaches Lear from an admirably subdued point of view.
		This rewarding but flawed production, directed by Byrne’s daughter Shira Piven, aims to bring this grandiose story down to earth – most pungently conveyed when Lear steps down from his Greek platform shoes and merges with the average humanity around him.
	www.chicagotheater.com /revPiven.html (696 words)

	Fat chance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Minutes earlier, while Piven was sitting alone in a booth at Bubby's in Tribeca, a stranger had recognized him and announced, "Hey, you were at a wedding I went to." The guy ran upstairs to his apartment, retrieved the picture and gave it to Piven; he didn't even demand an autograph.
		While he's most often associated with his screen and TV roles, Piven's formative years as an actor were spent on the stage, at his family's namesake theater and acting school in Evanston, Illinois.
		Piven left his hometown to study at NYU and London's National Theatre, and to start a production company, New Crime, with Cusack, who had attended the Pivens' school.
	www.timeoutny.com /features/480/480.fatchance.html (1082 words)

	Perfectly Piven ~ Byrne Piven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joyce and Byrne Piven are a wonderful married couple that live in Evanston
		and are parents of Jeremy and Shira, and run the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston, Illinois.
		Content is the property of 'Perfectly Piven', except where otherwise noted.
	www33.brinkster.com /perfectlypiven/byrne.html (989 words)

	Quantum Leap Episode Guide at Al's Place - So Help Me God
		Byrne Piven was a very accomplished and highly respected Shakespearian actor.
		He and his wife created and ran the Piven Theatre Workshop through whose doors have passed such notable actors/actresses (in their early career years) as Adian Quinn, Lili Taylor, and John and Joan Cusak.
		Piven's favorite Broadway roles was The Man in 605 for which he received the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor.
	www.quantumleap-alsplace.com /episodeguide/sohelpmegod.htm (1696 words)

	HBO: Jeremy Piven as Ari - Entourage
		Piven received a 2005 Golden Globe® nomination for his portrayal of 'Ari Gold', a slick, hard talking agent who is the leader of an up-and-coming actor's entourage.
		Piven also stars in Scott Marshall's directorial debut, Lucky 13, a comedy about the competitive world of lavish Bar Mitzvahs opposite Garry Marshall and Jami Gertz.
		Piven was born and raised in Chicago where his parents founded the Piven Theatre Workshop.
	www.hbo.com /entourage/cast/actor/jeremy_piven.html (333 words)

	Perfectly Piven ~ A (woefully) Brief Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jeremy Piven was born on July 26, 1965.
		Though he was born in New York City, Jeremy was raised in Chicago, the city he still calls home.
		When he and sister Shira were children their parents, Joyce and the late Byrne Piven, founded the Piven Theatre Workshop, where they taught children about acting and creativity.
	www33.brinkster.com /perfectlypiven/bio.html (261 words)

	Jeremy Piven @ Filmbug UK
		Piven is the son of actors Byrne and Joyce Piven, who founded the Piven Theater Workshop.
		Piven made his feature-film debut in Lucas, and went on to appear in Robert Altman's The Player, Cameron Crowe's Singles, Tim Robbins' Bob Roberts, Judgment Night and Car 54, Where are You?
		After that, Piven took a dramatic turn as a doomed helicopter pilot in Ridley Scott's award-winning Black Hawk Down, but returned to comedy for the recent hit Old School.
	www.filmbug.co.uk /db/23638 (352 words)

	Jeremy Piven Web Page At MyStarLinks.com
		Born in Manhattan and raised in Evanston, Illinois, he is an alumnus of the Piven Theatre Workshop founded by his parents (q.v.
		Byrne Piven) and a onetime Chicago stage actor.
		Born in Manhattan, Jeremy Piven was raised in Evanston, Illinois, where his parents founded the now famous Piven Theater Workshop, which claims among...
	www.mystarlinks.com /stars/jeremypiven.php (512 words)

	Jeremy Piven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At the urging of her neighbor, Lois hires a hitman to kill Paul, but the plan goes amok when Lois finds that Paul named his mistress as the benificiary of his insurance policy.
		Son of Byrne Piven and Joyce Hiller Piven.
		They, along with their siblings, are both alumni of Piven Theatre Workshop (run by Jeremy's parents) and frequently act in the same movies.
	www.tv.com /jeremy-piven/person/2832/summary.html (150 words)

	John Cusack: Evanston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Byrne and Joyce Piven, his teachers there, say, "Since a little boy, John has had an intuitive sense of whatever the moment and the character require.
		Richard Cusack, a film writer-director- producer, himself became an actor in 1979 at age 54 when his friend Byrne Piven persuaded him to take the small role of a hotel clerk in Alan Gross' play "The Man in 605," starring Piven.
		John Cusack a few years earlier had followed his sisters Joan and Ann to the Pivens' workshop, gaining what he believes was the best training for his eventual movie work.
	www.angelfire.com /music5/u2cusack/evanston.html (1411 words)

	Irish American News Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Under the direction of Co-Founders Byrne and Joyce Piven, the Piven Theatre Workshop has grown to be both a professional subscription theatre and a nationally respected theatre school.
		Byrne Piven passed away in 2002 and Joyce Piven continues to serve as Artistic Director.
		Stagebill honored the Pivens with the designation “Chicago’s first family of acting.” The Pivens have received numerous awards including a Joseph Jefferson Lifetime Achievement Award and have been named Artists of the Year by the Chicago Tribune.
	www.irishamericannews.com /news/nz020310.htm (490 words)

	Piven Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Their unique and honest approach has illuminated the timeless works of Shakespeare and Chekhov, the modern masterpieces of Pinter and Mamet, and the story theatre adaptations that form the core of their training.
		Byrne & Joyce Piven have nurtured the talents of some of the nation's major theatre artists including John, Joan and Ann Cusack, Aidan Quinn, Lili Taylor, Rosanna Arquette, Hope Davis, director Eric Simonson, and their own children Jeremy and Shira.
		A recent issue of Stagebill honored the Pivens with the designation "Chicago's first family of acting." The Pivens have been honored with the Evanston Arts Council Youth and Education Award, the Evanston Mayors Award for the Arts, and the University of Chicago's Glorious Gargoyle Award for lifetime contribution to the theatre.
	www.piventheatre.org /theatre (267 words)

	SeatAdvisor.com \| Venue Information
		The Piven Theatre Workshop was founded by Joyce and Byrne Piven in 1969.
		The Pivens and their theatre are extremely well known in Chicago and performances are always memorable, the theatre experience is first rate.
		The Piven Theatre Workshop is one of the very finest institutions in the area.
	www.seatadvisor.com /cgi/make_venue_info.pl?venue_code=1691 (147 words)

	Jeremy Piven Biography
		Jeremy Piven was born on July 26, 1965 in New York, NY.
		His parents, Joyce and Byrne Piven, founded the Piven Theater Workshop.
		He majored in theater at Drake University in Des Moines; graduated from the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterbury, CT; and attended the National Theatre in London, England.
	members.tripod.com /LolaG/piven.html (168 words)

	Jeremy Piven
		His feature film credits include Say Anything, Grosse Pointe Blank, and Kiss the Girls, as well as the recent Very Bad Things (a couple of scenes are completely stolen by Piven).
		Piven had also been a regular on HBO's "Larry Sanders Show," and "Ellen."
		Piven studied at Drake University, and eventually graduated from New York University before attending Connecticut's Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and the National Theatre of Great Britain.
	centerstage.net /theatre/whoswho/JeremyPiven.html (97 words)

	Todd Stashwick interview - Improv Review . . . because improv is art, dammit.
		As this interview was concluding, word came of the passing of one of Mr.
		"What is rarely mentioned about Byrne Piven is that he was a champion of improv in it's purest form, stripped free of gimmicks and competition.
		My work has been more influenced by what I learned from Shira Piven and the teachings of Byrne and Joyce (Piven, Byrne's wife) than anyone else.
	www.improvreview.com /news_features/stashwick.htm (1261 words)

	News- Press Releases \| About Face Youth Theatre\| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For 30 years, Byrne and Joyce Piven have been successfully training young actors in their Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston.
		However, "we're theater people," Rosen cautions, "not social workers or therapists." The staff did not try to be counselors (although, just in case some professional counseling advice was needed, a Horizons staff member was present at the workshops).
		About Face did not want the show to degenerate into what Byrne Piven describes as "something like a bad talk show." It was to have structure and discipline, its experiences distilled and transformed into theater that could play well before an audience.
	www.aboutfacetheatre.com /afyt/rvw-first-breath.htm (1176 words)

	Byrne Piven - DVD; Poster; Fotos; - joynd.de/ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	joynd.i-market.de /byrne-piven (125 words)

	Piven Theatre Workshop Adult Classes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This vital component not only reinforces the symbiotic relationship between the class work and performance, but productions (either scene, story, adaptation or acting "style") are often used as points of departure for more intensive class exercises; to teach the process.
		This "taste of Piven" allows new students to sample all the classes developed at the Workshop: Theatre Games, Improvisation, Story Theatre and Scene Study.
		The Piven Theatre Workshop is proud to offer The Teacher’s Class, taught by Susan R. Applebaum, Ph.D. Designed for teachers, this class will focus on the fundamental principles of the Theatre Games concept as developed at the Workshop under the guidance of Joyce and Byrne Piven.
	piventheatre.org /workshop/adult.html (782 words)

	OLDINTERVIEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As for the rest of the family, sister Ann is in musical theater, brother Bill is pursuing a career on the stage and the youngest, Susie, is a ballet student.
		It was at the Piven workshop, says John in a separate interview in a New York hotel, that he first learned to explore all the facets of his personality.
		The whole Cusack family, says Byrne Piven, is "ridiculously talented." John's father, Richard, is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker who also writes screenplays and acts in films (he played the stern judge in "Eight Men Out"), and his mother, Nancy, who is on the Piven workshop board, orchestrated in-house 8 mm.
	www.cusack101.com /OLDINTERVIEWS.html (21164 words)

	Six Degrees of Bruce Payne
		Sinise was in BEING JOHN MALCOVICH alongside Byrne Piven.
		Piven was also in PYRATES with Bruce and Kevin.
		Byrne worked with Kevin Spacey in THE USUAL SUSPECTS.
	www.agirlwholovesbrucepayne.com /sixdegrees.html (747 words)

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