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Profile of Eve Ensler
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Eve Ensler (born 25 May 1953) is an American playwright and feminist activist best known for the play The Vagina Monologues.
Ensler graduated from Middlebury College in 1975. She married Richard McDermott in 1978 and divorced in 1988. She is the stepmother of actor Dylan McDermott, whom she adopted when he was 18 and she was 26.
Ensler is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Playwriting, the Berrilla-Kerr Award for Playwriting, the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, and the Jury Award for Theater at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Ensler has been involved in several films and has appeared on television on Real Time with Bill Maher (26 August 2005) and Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry (12 August 2005).
Plays
- Conviction
- Lemonade
- The Depot
- Floating Rhoda
- The Glue Man
- Extraordinary Measures
- The Vagina Monologues
- The Good Body
- Necessary Targets
Books
- V-World
- I Am An Emotional Creature
- Vagina Warriors
Films
- Fear No More: Stop Violence Against Women (2002)
- The Vagina Monologues (2002)
- Until the Violence Stops (2003)
- What I Want My Words to Do to You: Voices From Inside a Women's Maximum Security Prison (2003)
Activism
Ensler is a prominent anti-violence activist. In [, she founded V-Day as an extension of her play The Vagina Monologues. V-Day is a grassroots movement to stop violence against women and girls by raising awareness and funds within local communities. Funds are raised through benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues staged at campuses and communites around the world.
Ensler has led a writing group since 1998 at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, which was portrayed in What I Want My Words To Do To You.
She has also received awards for her anti-violence work, including the 2002 Amnesty International Media Spotlight Award for Leadership, and the Matrix Award (2002). In May 2003, she received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Middlebury College.
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