I Am My Own Wife

I Am My Own Wife
Original Lyceum Theatre window card, 2003
Written by	Doug Wright
Characters	Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, et al.
Date premiered	27 May 2003
Place premiered	Playwrights Horizons New York City, New York
Original language	English
Subject	A biography of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
Genre	Drama
Setting	Berlin, Germany

I Am My Own Wife is a play by Doug Wright based on his conversations with the German antiquarian Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. The one-person play premiered Off-Broadway in 2003 at Playwrights Horizons. It opened on Broadway later that year. The play was developed with Moisés Kaufman and his Tectonic Theater Project, and Kaufman also acted as director. Jefferson Mays starred in the Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, playing some forty roles. Wright received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work.

With his play I Am My Own Wife, Wright tied in with the film I Am My Own Woman by avant-garde director Rosa von Praunheim (1992).^[1] Film and play are based on von Mahlsdorf's autobiography, first issued in 1992, translated in 1995.