Background
Ensler, Eve was born on May 25, 1953 in New York City.
(In her first new work since The Vagina Monologues, her Ob...)
In her first new work since The Vagina Monologues, her Obie Award-winning smash hit, Eve Ensler tells the story of two American women, a Park Avenue psychiatrist and a human rights worker, who go to Bosnia to help women confront their memories of war and emerge deeply changed themselves. Necessary Targets is a groundbreaking play about women and war—about the violence of dark memories and the enduring resilience of the human spirit. Melissa, an ambitious young writer, and J.S., a successful but unsatisfied middle-aged psychiatrist, have nothing in common beyond the methods they have been taught to distance themselves from other people. As J.S. begins to feel compassion for the women whose tragedies she has been sent to expose, she turns on Melissa, who finds safety in control. In an unexpected moment of revelation, J.S. and the women she is supposedly treating find a common ground, a place to be taught and a place to learn. Necessary Targets has been staged in New York by Meryl Streep, Anjelica Huston, and Calista Flockhart, and performed in Sarajevo with Glenn Close and Marisa Tomei.
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Ensler, Eve was born on May 25, 1953 in New York City.
Bachelor, Middlebury College, Vermont, 1975. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Middlebury College, 2003.
Founder V-Day, 1998; leader writing group Beford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, since 1998. Faculty member Omega Institute.
(In her first new work since The Vagina Monologues, her Ob...)
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Trustee Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center, chair, Women's Committee.
Married Richard McDermott, 1978 (divorced 1988). Adopted stepson Dylan McDermott. Life partner Ariel Orr Jordan.