EVE ENSLER is the Obie-Award-winning author of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, translated into over 35 languages and running in theaters all over the world. Her experience performing The Vagina Monologues inspired her to create V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. Ms. Ensler's performance in THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES can be seen in the HBO original documentary of the play (2002).

Ms. Ensler has devoted her life to stopping violence, envisioning a planet in which women and girls will be free to thrive, rather than merely survive. THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES is based on Ensler's interviews with more than 200 women. With humour and grace the piece celebrates womens' sexuality and strength.

Ms. Ensler opened her newest work, THE GOOD BODY at the Booth Theatre on Broadway in November 2004. The play was presented this summer in a very successful engagement at ACT in San Francisco, following a workshop production at Seattle Repertory Theatre. Other plays include Necessary Targets, Conviction, Lemonade, The Depot, Floating Rhoda and the Glue Man, and EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES. THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, THE GOOD BODY, NECESSARY TARGETS have both been published by Villard/Random House, as will Ms. Ensler's upcoming two new works, V-WORLD and I AM AN EMOTIONAL CREATURE.

Ms. 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, as well as 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 and premiered nationally on PBS’s P.O.V. in December 2003. In May 2003, she received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from her alma mater, Middlebury College.