Peggy Shaw comes to Dublin

Peggy Shaw in an independent artist, writer and producer. Peggy was invited by Create to come to Dublin in late February to work with the placement students on the Learning Development Placement Programme 2009. She co-founded The Split Britches Theater Company with Lois Weaver and The WOW Cafe in New York City. She has received three OBIE Awards for her work with Split Britches - for performances in Dress Suits To Hire, Belle Reprieve and Menopausal Gentleman. Split Britches are a part of Staging Human Rights, where they work in prisons in Rio De Janeiro and England. They are associate artists on the Clod Ensembles Performing Medicine project-creating workshops on gender and difference for medical students and health professionals. As part of this project Peggy has made a new piece, in collaboration with The Clod Ensemble, Must; poetically examining the inside of her aging queer body, which she is performing and touring in lecture and anatomy theaters throughout Spring 2009. Peggy has been a collaborator, writer and performer with Spiderwoman Theater and Hot Peaches Theater. Peggy won the New York Foundation for the Arts Award for Emerging Forms in 1988, 1995 and 1999, and 2005; she also won the 1995 Anderson Foundation Stonewall Award for "excellence in making the world a better place for gays and lesbians" and a 2003 Otto Rene Castillo Award for Political Theatre.