Deb Margolin

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Deb Margolin is an American performance artist and playwright. Coming to prominence in the 1980's, as script-writer and performer in the feminist theater troupe Split Britches (of which she was a founding member), Margolin has since gone solo in a string of one-woman shows, which she continues to perform. A compilation of her scripts, Of All The Nerve: Deb Margolin SOLO, was published in 1999 by Cassell/Continuum Press. It was edited by literary theorist Lynda Hart, who wrote commentary on each piece. [1]

Margolin was the recipient of a 1999-2000 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. In 2005, Margolin won the Kesselring Prize for her play, Three Seconds in the Key, a multi-character play which reflected her own experiences with Hodgkin's Disease.

She currently teaches playwriting and performance as an associate professor at Yale University. Her most recent work and performance is entitled O Yes I Will, a detailed account of her experiences and insights on being under general anaesthesia.