V.
playwright, author, performer, feminist, and activist.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY.
“She is no longer Eve Ensler, not since writing her memoir, The Apology, which excavated the dead father who violently abused her throughout her childhood. She is now V, joyously freed from the last vestige of that prescribed paternal identity.”
– Arifa Akbar, The Guardian
V is a Tony and Obie award-winning, New York Times best-selling playwright, author, and activist with plays and books published in over 48 languages and performed in over 140 countries. The founder of V-Day, the global grassroots movement to end violence against all women and girls (cisgender, transgender, those who hold fluid identities, and nonbinary people), and the planet, she is also the founder of One Billion Rising, the biggest mass action campaign to end violence against all women and girls in over 200 countries, and the co-founder of City of Joy, a revolutionary leadership center for Congolese women survivors of violence in Bukavu, DRC.
ARTIST INTERVIEW.
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“One of the antidotes to fascism we know is community, is solidarity, is coming together, is talking, is being part of something that is bigger than yourself.”
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CREDITS: In the Body of the World, Written and Performed by V, Directed by Diane Paulus, A.R.T Institute Production, photos by Evgenia Eliseeva; The Vagina Monologues, Written and Performed by V, photo by Joan Marcus; Extraordinary Measures, Written and directed by Eve Ensler; music composed by William Harper; set by Bradley Wester; lighting by Michael Chybowski; costumes by Donna Zakowska; sound by Richard Jansen. Presented by Music-Theater Group, and Home for Contemporary Theater and Art, At Here, 145 Avenue of the Americas, at Spring Street, SoHo. WITH: James Lecesne, Jeannine Otis, Serafina Martino and Christine Sperry, photo courtesy of the artist; Swimming Upstream, photo by Paula Allen; all other photos courtesy of the artist.