Eve Ensler

Eve Ensler is an American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monolouegs.

Born:May 25, 1953

Eve Ensler

Ensler is a prominent activist addressing issues of violence against women and girls. In 1998, her experience performing The Vagina Monologues inspired her to create V-day, a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-day raises funds and awareness through annual benefit productions of The Vagina Monologues. In 2010, more than 5,400 V-day events took place in over 1,500 locations in the U.S. and around the world. To date, the V-day movement has raised $100 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it, crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the middle east, reopened shelters, and funded over 12,000 community based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt, and Iraq.

Creator of The Vagina Monologues

Won numerous awards such as,-Tony Award-Obie Award-Guggenheim Fellowship Award-Berrilla-Kerr Award-Elliot Norton Award-Amnesty International Media Spotlight Award-The Matrix Award-Jury Award

-Lion of Judah-Sundance Film Festival Award-Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree-NETC Theatre Award-NOW Award-The Civil Revolutionary Award-Award for International Award-The Avon Award-The Sandra Day O'Connor Award

-Honorary Doctor of Human Letters-Honorary Doctor of Communications-City of New York Proclamation-OK2BU Humanitarian Award-Honorary Speaker D010 at TED