The performance is a benefit for the Valley Trauma Center, the only rape crisis center offering comprehensive sexual assault services in the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys. The non-profit center is sponsored by CSUN's Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling.

"The performance is part of the 'V-Day College Initiative,' an international grassroots public education campaign to end violence against women," said Patti Dengler, executive director of the center. "The benefit performance is a major fundraiser for the Valley Trauma Center. It is also an opportunity to raise awareness about sexual violence against women."

The performance is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., followed by a silent auction and coffee and desert reception at 8:30 p.m.

Tickets for the show are $50 for general admission and $30 for students or seniors. Tickets are available through CSUN's Performing Arts Center box office at (818) 677-2488. Ensler created The Vagina Monologues after interviewing women from around the world about a fundamental, but taboo subject - the vagina. The provocative play has been hailed by critics as a unique testimony to womanhood that is hilarious and heartbreaking all at once.

The CSUN cast includes Tilton, star of the television series Dallas for 11 years; Sherry Mattson, who recently appeared in Antioch at the Los Angeles Theatre Center; Pamela Richards; a former Orange County news anchor and now actress who has appeared in television's The Practice; and veteran actress Helen Jordan.

Also performing are Jan Bartlett, who has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Angel, Tracey Takes On and The Young and the Restless; Shannon Conlon; Elizabeth Liang, who has appeared in Felicity on television and the films Hole, Aizea: City of the Wind and Vigilance; and Hannah Rose Vainstein, who is the youngest member of the cast at 16.

Other actors include Jennifer Laux; Fanny Garcia; Johanna Torell, who has appeared in the films One Night Stand and The Loss of Sexual Innocence; and Patricia Tallman, who is best known for starring in Night of the Living Dead, a remake of the George Romero classic, and her role as Tyta Alexander on the Hugo Award-winning series Babylon 5.

The Valley Trauma Center provides assistance to survivors of sexual assault and their families, participates in the Valley's Sexual Assault Response Team with law enforcement and medical professionals, and provides violence prevention education at area schools and community and service organizations.

The center maintains a 24-hour hotline staffed by volunteer certified rape crisis advocates who provide confidential information and crisis counseling over the telephone. The advocates also meet survivors at hospitals, police stations, and courts to provide free on-site emotional support and information.

Short-term individual counseling also is offered free of charge, with long-term individual and group therapy available for survivors, their families and significant others for a nominal fee.

For more information about the Valley Trauma Center and its services, call (818) 756-5330 or (661) 253-1772.

The Valley Trauma Center's 24-hour Sexual Assault Crisis Hotlines for the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys are (818) 886-0453 or (661) 253-0258. Calls to the hotline are confidential.