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V (formerly Eve Ensler), was born in New York City on May 25, 1953. She grew up in nearby Scarsdale and attended Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1975. V is a Tony Award-winning playwright, activist, performer, and author of the Obie award-winning theatrical phenomenon The Vagina Monologues, debuting in 1996, published in over 48 languages, and performed in over 140 countries. Her plays include Lemonade, Extraordinary Measures, Necessary Targets, O.P.C., The Good Body, Emotional Creature, and Fruit Trilogy. Her books include Insecure At Last: A Political Memoir, The New York Times best seller I Am An Emotional Creature, and The Apology, now published in nearly 20 languages. Film credits include The Vagina Monologues (HBO) and What I Want My Words to Do to You (Executive Producer, Winner of the Sundance Film Festival Freedom of Expression Award, PBS). She is founder of V-Day, the almost 25 year old global activist movement which has raised over 120 million dollars to end violence against all women (cisgender and transgender), gender diverse people, girls and the planet, and the founder of One Billion Rising, the largest global mass action to end gender-based violence in over 200 countries. V was named one of Newsweek’s “150 Women Who Changed the World” and The Guardian’s “100 Most Influential Women.” In addition to the Isabelle Stevenson Tony award and the Obie, she has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwriting, Glamour’s Woman of the Year, the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lilly Award.

"Art can make social change."