Winter Miller
Winter is an award-winning playwright and founding member of the Obie-winning 13Playwrights. She is playwright and librettist for the opera drama No One Is Forgotten with composers Paola Prestini and Sxip Shirey, adapted from her play No One Is Forgotten, which Winter produced and directed, “a profoundly devastating play” in The New Yorker. Their award-winning play In Darfur premiered in a sold-out run at The Public, followed by an SRO performance at Central Park’s 1800-seat Delacorte, a first for a play by a woman. Winter traveled to the Sudan border with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. In Darfur has played theaters nationwide and the UK. Select plays include: 1973, When Monica Met Hillary, The Penetration Play, Animalia Arthropoda, The Arrival, and Colored. Their plays are published by Concord. NYFA award (2022, 2016), Fellowships: Sundance, Djerassi, Princeton, Bogliasco Foundation, Cherry Lane Mentor Project, Hedgebrook, Blue Mountain Center, Space at Ryder Farm, The Playwrights Center, Civilians R&D, NNPN, New Georges, SLAC. Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwriting Prize. They have created theater with young people surviving in war-torn areas of Northern Uganda and Palestine, and in LGBTQIA communities in NYC. BA from Smith, MFA from Columbia. Affiliate: New Georges, The PWC, elected NYC’s first Dramatists Guild Rep. She teaches undergrads, mfa candidates, and actors just writing their first play. Former students have won Princess Grace, Susan Smith Blackbird, Pulitzer prizes (all on their own merits!) Winter’s children’s book Not A Cat illustrated by Danica Novgorodoff is a Lambda pick and Winner 2023 Children’s Book Council Award, published by Tilbury/Penguin. A former journalist, Winter wrote 90+ articles for The New York Times and is featured in anthologies V’s A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer, Pretty Bitches and Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists. Eartha Kitt once held her left hand for five minutes.
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
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MORE ABOUT ME
I feel most myself when I'm laughing or crying. When working with writers, my intention as instructor and dramaturg is to meet you exactly where you are, ask the right questions that will elevate your vision into existence, and teach you to trust your own instincts.
WHAT I'M WORKING ON
"Moving at the speed of trust" ~ Rev angel Kyodo williams
KEYWORDS
Political, Queer, Equity, Sex, Women Fighting, Abortion, Genocide, Comedy, Physical, Lesbian
