EVE
ENSLER BIOGRAPHY
Eve Ensler is a Tony award winning playwright, performer and activist.
She is the author of international phenomenon, The Vagina Monologues,
which won an Obie and has been published in 48 languages and performed in
over 140 countries.
Eve wrote the New York Times Bestseller, I Am An Emotional Creature:
The Secret Life Of Girls Around The World. She then adapted it as a
play which ran successfully in South Africa, Paris, Berkeley and Off-Broadway.
She is the founder of V-Day, the global movement to end violence against
women and girls, which has raised over 100 million dollars for grassroots
organizations around the world. On V-Day’s 15th Anniversary, it launched it's
most ambitious campaign One Billion Rising which inspired one billion
people in 207 countries to Strike Dance and Rise on Feb 14, 2013 for
the freedom, safety and equality of women. With the women of Congo, V-Day
opened and supports City of Joy In Bukavu, Congo, a revolutionary center where
survivors of gender violence Turn Their Pain to Power.
Eve starred in the HBO version of The Vagina Monologues Her play Here was
filmed live by Sky Television in London, UK. She co-produced the documentary
What I Want My Words to You which won the Freedom of Expression Award
at Sundance. Her other plays include Necessary Targets, The Treatment
and The Good Body, which she performed on Broadway, followed by a national
tour. In 2006, Eve released her book, Insecure At Last: A Political Memoir,
and co-edited A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and a Prayer. Her newest
critically acclaimed memoir In The Body of the World was just published
by Holt.