
I Am My Own Wife
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Doug Wright’s spectacular, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning dramatic masterpiece 'I Am My Own Wife' arrived at the Lyceum Theatre in 2003, running for an astonishing 360 performances and capturing Best Play. Conceived as a brilliant, structurally magnificent solo tour-de-force biography constructed from real interview transcripts, the narrative chronicles the real life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, an eccentric German transvestite who miraculously survived both the Nazi regime and the Soviet Stasi secret police in East Berlin while collecting antique household artifacts. Directed by Moisés Kaufman, Jefferson Mays delivered a historic, Tony-winning performance playing forty separate characters.

