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A playwright, now known as V, whose play The Vagina Monologues became, in the words of one New York Times critic, "probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade." She used the play's success to found V-Day, a global movement raising money and awareness to end violence against women, work for which she received the Tony Awards' Isabelle Stevenson Award in 2011.