--- title: Eve Ensler | TIME description: Ensler is a Tony Award–winning playwright, an activist and the author of The Vagina Monologues; she founded V-Day and One Billion Rising. canonical: https://time.com/author/eve-ensler/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/eve-ensler/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Eve Ensler ## Eve Ensler Ensler is a Tony Award–winning playwright, an activist and the author of The Vagina Monologues; she founded [V-Day](https://www.vday.org/) and [One Billion Rising](https://www.onebillionrising.org/). ## Eve Ensler *  Oct 4, 2018 ### [A Letter to White Women Who Support Brett Kavanaugh](https://time.com/5415254/white-women-brett-kavanaugh-donald-trump/) After the President mocked Dr. Ford, Eve Ensler wrote a letter to the judge's believers [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 3, 2016 ### [Yazidi Activist Nadia Murad on the 'Holocaust' of Her People in Iraq](https://time.com/4435297/sinjar-anniversary-yazidi-nadia-murad/) Two years after the Sinjar massacre, the young activist says "the entire world remains silent" [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jul 16, 2015 ### [On Bill Cosby: Let the Mythical Daddy Die](https://time.com/3957881/eve-ensler-on-bill-cosby-let-the-mythical-daddy-die/) Are we finally willing to do what is necessary to make women safe? [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jan 19, 2015 ### [Eve Ensler: I Never Defined a Woman as a Person With a Vagina](https://time.com/3672912/eve-ensler-vagina-monologues-mount-holyoke-college/) Why I'm surprised students at Mount Holyoke College think The Vagina Monologues is not inclus... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/eve-ensler/","name":"Eve Ensler"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/eve-ensler/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/eve-ensler/"},"name":"Eve Ensler","jobTitle":null,"description":"Ensler is a Tony Award–winning playwright, an activist and the author of The Vagina Monologues; she founded V-Day and One Billion Rising.","url":"https://time.com/author/eve-ensler/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```