Name	Eve Ensler
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Naionality	American
Date of Birth	25 May 1953
Place of Birth	New York, USA
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Eve Ensler wrote “The Vagina Monologues” in 1996 as a reaction to the guiltiness and humiliation that numerous women still connect with their bodies and/or their sexuality. The play was first shown in the basement of the Cornelia Street Café in SoHo, and continued to earn success with its worldwide release, including sold-out runs at both Off-Broadway’s Westside Theater and on London’s West End, which the play nabbed a 2002 Oliver nod for Best Entertainment. The Vagina Monologues also has been translated into more than 45 different languages. For her spectacular writing, Ensler acquired numerous accolades, including a 1996 Obie for Best New Play and a 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship for Playwriting. Additionally, she has netted a Berrilla-Kerr for Playwriting, an Elliot Norton for Outstanding Solo Performance, and the Jury Award for Theater at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.

Ensler also wrote such plays as “Conviction,” “Lemonade,” “The Depot,” “Floating Rhoda,” “The Glue Man” and “Extraordinary Measures.” Her play “Necessary Targets,” set in a Bosnian expatriate camp, premiered off-Broadway at the Variety Arts Theater in February 2002, following a successful run at Hartford Stage Company and is currently in theaters all over the world. From October 2005 to April 2006, Ensler had a twenty-city tour in North America with her play “The Good Body,” after arrangements on Broadway, at ACT in San Francisco, and in a workshop production at Seattle Repertory Theatre.

The writer’s newest work is the play “The Treatment,” which debuted at the Culture Project in New York City on September 12, 2006. This play surveys the moral and psychosomatic trauma that are the result of involvement in military clashes. “The Treatment” stars Ensler’s stepson, Dylan McDermott.

In addition to writing plays, Ensler also has published numerous books, such as “The Good Body,” “Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security Obsessed World,” and “Vagina Warriors,” a photo essay book, featuring text by Ensler and images by Joyce Tenneson. Her latest books “I Am An Emotional Creature” and “V-World” are published by Villard/Random House. Ensler also has added film and television to her endeavors. She has participated in several movies like Fear No More: Stop Violence Against Women (2002, TV), The Vagina Monologues (2002, TV), What I Want My Words to Do to You: Voices From Inside a Women’s Maximum Security Prison (2003) and Until the Violence Stops (2003). Ensler has been featured as herself in such shows as “Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry” (2005), “Real Time with Bill Maher” (2005) and “SexTV” (2006).