What is Eve Ensler?
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2019}} [[File:Eve Ensler at a Hudson Union Society event in March 2011.jpg|thumb|Eve Ensler (2011)]] '''Eve Ensler''' (born May 25, 1953) is an [[Americans|American]] playwright and [[feminism|feminist activist]]. She is best known for the play ''[[The Vagina Monologues]]''. Ensler was born in [[New York City]] to a Christian mother and [[Jew]]ish father. She graduated from [[Middlebury College]] in 1975. She married [[Richard McDermott]] in 1978 and divorced in 1988. She is the [[adoption|adoptive]] mother of actor [[Dylan McDermott]]. She adopted him when he was 18 and she was 26. In 2010, she said that she was being treated for [[uterine cancer]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jun/12/cancer-atrocities-congo-violence|title=My cancer is arbitrary. Congo's atrocities are very deliberate - Eve Ensler|first=Eve|last=Ensler|date=June 12, 2010|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} == Other websites == * [http://www.vday.org/contents/vday/aboutvday/eveensler Eve Ensler biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919181528/http://www.vday.org/contents/vday/aboutvday/eveensler |date=2008-09-19 }} via V-Day * [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0258127/ Eve Ensler] via [[Internet Movie Database]] * [http://www.motherjones.com/arts/qa/2004/11/11_100.html] * [http://www.writersvoice.net/taxonomy/podcast/page/2/ Writer's Voice 2007 audio interview] {{DEFAULTSORT:Ensler, Eve}} [[Category:1953 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American activists]] [[Category:American feminists]] [[Category:American playwrights]] [[Category:Writers from New York City]] {{US-bio-stub}}