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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