I Am My Own Wife

I Am My Own Wife
Original Lyceum Theatre window card, 2003
Written byDoug Wright
CharactersCharlotte von Mahlsdorf, et al.
Date premiered27 May 2003
Place premieredPlaywrights Horizons
New York City, New York
Original languageEnglish
SubjectA biography of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
GenreDrama
SettingBerlin, 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.

  1. ^ "Frock horror". The Guardian. 8 November 2005. Retrieved 2021-12-22.