 EVE
ENSLER (Playwright/Performer) opened her new play The Good Body
on Broadway in 2004, after hit runs in San Francisco and Seattle. She is
in the middle of an extensive America tour.
She is the OBIE Award-winning
author of The Vagina Monologues and the founder and artistic
director of V-Day,
a global movement to end violence against women and girls. In eight years,
V-Day has raised more than $30 million for grass roots groups around the
world (www.vday.org).
The
Vagina Monologues has been translated into more than 45 languages
and has run in theaters worldwide, including sold-out runs at both off-Broadway's
Westside Theater and on London's West End (2002 Olivier Award nominee for
Best Entertainment.)
 Her
play Necessary Targets, set in a Bosnian refugee camp, opened
off Broadway at the Variety Arts Theater in February 2002, following a
hit run at Hartford Stage Company and is now running in theaters throughout
the world. Ensler's other plays include Conviction, Lemonade,
The
Depot, Floating Rhoda and the Glue Man and Extraordinary
Measures. The Vagina Monologues, Necessary Targets and The
Good Body have all been published by Villard/Random House, who will
also publish Ms. Ensler's upcoming books I Am an Emotional Creature
and V-World. In 2005, Bulfinch Press published Vagina Warriors,
a photo essay book, featuring text by Ensler and images by Joyce Tenneson..
 Ensler
is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in playwriting, the 2002
Amnesty International Media Spotlight Award for leadership, and the Matrix
Award (2002.) She is chair of the Women's Committee of PEN American Center
and is an executive producer of What I Want My Words to Do to
You, a documentary about the writing group she has led since 1998 at
the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women; the film had its world
premiere at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the "Freedom
of Expression" Award; the film premiered nationally on PBS's "P.O.V."
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