Deb Margolin
“When the lights come up and there’s a woman standing there, that is a radical act,” says award-winning playwright and performance artist Deb Margolin, who first came into the spotlight as a founding member of the feminist performance group Split Britches. Since going solo, she’s written and performed tirelessly, garnering an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance in 2000. Her play Three Seconds in the Key, which was based on her experience with Hodgkins disease, earned her 2005’s Kesselring Prize for playwriting. That same year, she was awarded the Richard H. Brodhead Prize for Teaching Excellence at Yale, where she is an adjunct professor of theater studies. Her most recent work, 2007’s O Yes I Will (I will remember the spirit and texture of this conversation) is a about her experience with general anesthesia. “I embody my own experiences,” she says, “or experiences that I cannot die without talking about.” –LM
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