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,
Susan Close leader, with Close as deputy, following a Labor caucus meeting on 9 April 2018. Susan Close Susan Elizabeth Close is an Australian politician, serving as deputy leader of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party following the 2018 state election. First elected to the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Port Adelaide at the 2012 by-election, she held Cabinet portfolios in the Weatherill Ministry from 2014 to 2018. Close earned a PhD in political science at Flinders University where she had studied French, Italian and biology as well as politics in her BA. She graduated from Blackwood