V, formerly Eve Ensler (Scarsdale, New York, 1953) is a Tony Award-winning American playwright, author, performer, and activist. She is the author of the international best-selling, Obie Award-winning theatrical phenomenon The Vagina Monologues , published in nearly fifty languages ​​and performed in over one hundred and forty countries.

She is the author of many plays and books, including the New York Times bestseller I Am an Emotional Being . She adapted her extremely acclaimed memoir In the Body of the World into a play, which was praised by both critics and the audience.

Her play The Vagina Monologues spawned V-Day, a global activist movement to end gender-based violence. Through various charitable productions of her artwork, the V-Day movement has raised over $100 million and funded more than 13,000 community-based violence programs and shelters around the world. Ensler is the founder of One Billion Rising, the largest global grassroots action to end violence against women and girls. She is a co-founder, along with Christine Schuler Deschryver and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege, of City of Joy, a groundbreaking center for women survivors of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

She was named one of the 150 women who changed the world by Newsweek magazine, and one of the 100 most influential women by the Guardian . She lives in New York.