DAME EDNA (Dame Edna Everage) is probably the most popular and gifted woman in the world today. Housewife, investigative journalist, social anthropologist, talk-show host, swami, children’s book illustrator, megastar, celebrity spin doctor and icon. With Olivia Newton-John, Kylie Minogue, Nicole Kidman and Dame Joan Sutherland, she is the most prominent of a remarkable succession of female stars to emerge from Australia. During the 1970s, Dame Edna’s success in her homeland was repeated in Britain with London stage shows including Housewife Superstar! and A Night With Dame Edna. Subsequently, she performed at London’s Royal Albert Hall and at the prestigious Theatre Royal Drury Lane and the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Television triumphs include two critically acclaimed UK specials, "An Audience With Dame Edna" and "Another Audience With Dame Edna." She also hosted two series of her own innovative chat show, "The Dame Edna Experience." Her  guests included Jane Fonda, Charlton Heston, Liza Minnelli, Sean Connery, Caesar Romero and Mel Gibson. Most recently, on Broadway, her sensational vehicle, Dame Edna: The Royal Tour, received a Special Tony Award for Live Theatrical Event. The Outer Critics Circle also bestowed upon her a Special Achievement Award. Dame Edna has recorded numerous TV specials, the last of which, "A Night on Mount Edna," won the foremost European entertainment award, the Golden Rose of Montreux in 1991. Edna’s other notable awards include first prize in the San Francisco International Film Festival, a Gold Award at the New York Film and TV Festival and a British Academy Award nomination for "The Dame Edna Experience." Her books include Dame Edna’s Coffee Table Book, Dame Edna’s Bedside Companion and her seminal autobiography, My Gorgeous Life, which has been translated into many languages and, on government orders, has been placed in hotel bedrooms throughout Britain and Australia. Possibly Jewish, Dame Edna is a widow, with three grown children. She spends her time visiting world leaders,  photographing orphans and jetsetting between her homes in Malibu, Mayfair, Melbourne, Montreux and Martha’s Vineyard. She is the founder and governor of "Friends of the Prostate" and the creator of the World Prostate Olympics. Currently, she is turning her attention to the deviated septum. Recently she starred in David E. Kelley’s cutting-edge TV series, "Ally McBeal," where her abilities as a distinguished actress were at last recognized, as they were in the film Nicholas Nickleby in which she played Mrs. Crummles opposite Nathan Lane. Dame Edna has appeared regularly on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" and did the Millennium Countdown in Times Square for the program a few years ago. Among her many achievements, Dame Edna has changed the course of the traditional talk show and contributed, free of charge, some of the more amusing lines in the recent production of The Boy From Oz. She returns to the American stage at a time when her gifts of compassion are most needed, and she wishes to thank nobody but herself!