Eve Ensler in New York and Paris but travels much of the year." A June 2010 article by Ensler in "The Guardian" stated that she was receiving treatment for uterine cancer. Ensler wrote about her experience with cancer in her memoir, "In The Body of the World". Ensler wrote "The Vagina Monologues" in 1996. First performed in the basement of the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village, the play has been translated into 48 languages and performed in over 140 countries. Celebrities who have starred in it include Jane Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Idina Menzel, Glenn Close, Susan Sarandon, Marin Mazzie, Cyndi Lauper,
Glenn Close Glenn Close Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and producer. She began her professional stage career in 1974 in "Love for Love", and was mostly a New York stage actress through the rest of the 1970s and early 1980s, appearing in both plays and musicals, including the Broadway productions of "Barnum" in 1980 and "The Real Thing" in 1983, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Her film debut was in "The World According to Garp" (1982), which she followed with supporting roles in "The Big Chill" (1983) and "The