Eve Ensler
EVE ENSLER author of The Vagina Monologues, translated into over 45 languages and running in theaters all over the world. Her experience performing The Vagina Monologues inspired V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls which has spread to 81 countries and raised $35 million dollars for grassroots groups. The Vagina Monologues can be seen in the HBO original documentary of the play (2002). Ensler just completed a tour of 20 North American cities of her play, The Good Body, following engagements on Broadway in NYC, at ACT in San Francisco. Ms. Ensler's play Necessary Targets ran Off-Broadway at the Variety Arts Theater in 2002 and at Hartford Stage. Her other plays include Conviction, Lemonade, The Depot, Floating Rhoda and the Glue Man, and Extraordinary Measures. The Good Body, The Vagina Monologues and Necessary Targets have been published by Villard/Random House. She is the 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, winner of the Freedom of Expression Award at Sundance and shown on POV/PBS. Her first non-fiction book Insecure At Last: Losing It in A Security Obsessed World will be published by Random House in October. Bio as of September, 2006. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Downstage Center (audio) Eve Ensler - October, 2006 - Listen Now. Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)