Eve Ensler is the acclaimed author of the multi-award winning play, The Vagina Monologues, which is based on interviews with more than 200 women. With humour and grace the piece celebrates womens' sexuality and strength. The play has been translated into over 35 languages and runs in theatres all over the world. Her experience performing The Vagina Monologues inspired her to create V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls.

Today, V-Day is a global movement that supports anti-violence organisations throughout the world, helping them to continue and expand their core work on the ground, while drawing public attention to the larger fight to stop worldwide violence (including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), sexual slavery) against women and girls. V-Day exists for no other reason than to stop violence against women. In just seven years, it has raised over $30 million and was named one of Worth magazine's "100 Best Charities" in 2001.

V-Day stages large-scale benefits and produces innovative gatherings, films, and programmes to educate and change social attitudes regarding violence against women. These include the 2004 documentary ‘Until The Violence Stops’; community briefings with Amnesty International on the missing and murdered women of Juarez, Mexico; the December 2002 V-Day delegation trip to Israel, Palestine, Egypt and Jordan; the Afghan Women's Summit; the Stop Rape Contest; and the Indian Country Project.

In 2005, more than 2500 V-Day benefit events – produced by local volunteer activists and performed in theatres, community centres, houses of worship, and college campuses – will take place around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls and raising funds for local groups within their communities.

Eve’s other plays include Necessary Targets, Conviction, Lemonade, The Depot, Floating Rhoda and The Glue Man, Extraordinary Measures and most recently, The Good Body.

Eve is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Playwriting, the Berrilla-Kerr Award for Playwriting, the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, and the Jury Award for Theatre at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, as well as the 2002 Amnesty International Media Spotlight Award for Leadership and The Matrix Award (2002). She is Chair of the Women's Committee of PEN American Centre and is an Executive Producer of What I Want My Words To Do To You, a documentary about the writing group she has led since 1998 at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women. The film had its world premiere at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival where it received the Freedom Of Expression Award and premiered nationally on PBS’s P.O.V. in December 2003. In May 2003, she received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from her alma mater, Middlebury College.