Donna Kaz
Donna Kaz is a multi-genre writer who is also known as the Guerrilla Girl, “Aphra Behn.” She writes plays, prose, screenplays and creates performances which address gender parity, reproductive rights, violence against women and proves that feminists are funny at the same time. In the fall of 2016 she revealed the personal story she had kept hidden for 35 years – that as a young woman she had been trapped in a physically violent relationship with the actor William Hurt. Her memoir, “UN/MASKED, Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour,” published by Skyhorse, was named best nonfiction prose book of 2017 by Devil’s Kitchen. Kaz has led the touring theatre company, Guerrilla Girls On Tour, since 2001 and the troupe has received the Yoko Ono Courage Award for the Arts, the Skowhegan medal, and was named “Notable Women in American Theatre” by the League of Professional Theatre Women and CUNY-TV. Donna Kaz is the recipient of Venus Theatre’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Jerry Kaufman Playwriting Award, Ian MacMillan Writing Award, Boundary Stone Screenwriting Award and residencies at Yaddo, Ucross, Djerassi, Blue Mountain, Wurlitzer, Mesa Refuge and Marble House. She is a 2023/24 Winterthur research fellow and is currently working on a trilogy of plays which examines the invisible thread that exists between humans and the natural world entitled “The Sweetgum Trilogy.”