- Father of Jeremy Piven and Shira Piven
- During its 30 years, the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston, a Chicago suburb, has shaped the work of stage and film actors including John Cusack, Joan Cusack and Ann Cusack; Lili Taylor; Aidan Quinn; and his two children, Shira Piven and Jeremy Piven.
- Co-director with his wife Joyce Hiller Piven of Piven Theater Workshop, a Chicago-area school whose alumni include Jeremy Piven, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Ann Cusack, Aidan Quinn, and Rosanna Arquette, among others. (2000)
- He was awarded the 1979 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "The Man in 605", at the Performance Community/Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago, Illinois.
- Grandfather of Pearl McKay and Lili Rose McKay.
- Father-in-law of Adam McKay.
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