Peggy Shaw is an independent performance artist, painter and poet who believes in new images, and rejects old ideas. She challenges established practices in theatre, prisons, gender, relationships and humor. Her work is firmly rooted in a queer feminist perspective, with an unceasing quest for global equality in writing, spoken word and performance.

CURRENT PROJECTS
Must A collaboration with Suzy Willson of The Clod Ensemble in their Performing Rights Project.
Miss America A Split Britches Production which will premiere at LaMaMa in New York City in 2008.

CURRENT COLLABORATIONS
Peggy Shaw continues to collaborate with Clod Ensemble, Stacy Makishi and Vivian Stoll.

UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS
An anthology of her three solo performances, You're Just Like My Father, Menopausal Gentleman, and To My Chagrin edited by Jill Dolan, published by Michigan Press (forthcoming)

SPLIT BRITCHES
DVD of a film documentation of a four-day workshop with Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver for Women's Writing for Performance, Lancaster University, womenwriting@lancaster.ac.uk