winter miller
Playwright, PlayPenn Teaching Artist
winter is an award-winning playwright who makes and champions art to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. She is a founding member of the Obie-winning 13P.
Produced nationally, When Monica Met Hillary, No One Is Forgotten, Colored, In Darfur, and The Penetration Play are published by Samuel French. They wrote the libretto for the opera of her play No One Is Forgotten. In Darfur premiered in a sold-out run at The Public Theater, followed by an SRO performance at Central Park’s 1,800-seat Delacorte, a first for a play by a woman. winter traveled to the Sudan border with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.
winter is a NYFA awardee, with fellowships at Sundance, Djerassi, Bogliasco, Cherry Lane Mentor Project, Hedgebrook, Blue Mountain Center, Space at Ryder, The Playwrights Center, Civilians R&D, NNPN, New Georges, and the Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwriting Prize.
A former journalist, Winter wrote more than 90 articles for The New York Times and is profiled in The New Yorker, Bomb, New York Magazine, and on NPR. Eartha Kitt once held her left hand for five minutes.