Winter Miller writes the things we’re afraid to say out loud.
Winter is a playwright, educator, and founding member of the Obie-winning 13Playwrights. She is the author of the children’s book Not a Cat and has traveled to Northern Uganda, Palestine, and the border of Sudan to write her plays. Raised by activist feminist parents and schooled by Quakers, she remains surprisingly amusing.
“I often struggle with questions of morality on the individual level: What is the right choice? I’m exploring that in most anything I write.”
WINTER MILLER, Interview & Profile
Evangeline Morphos | October 1, 2007
Selected Credits
SELECTED THEATRICAL WORKS
No One Is Forgotten: The Opera
NYC premiere forthcoming 2028
When Monica Met Hillary
Miami New Drama · Concord
No One Is Forgotten
Rattlestick Theater · Concord
In Darfur
The Public Theater / Delacorte Theater · Concord
The Penetration Play
13Playwrights · Concord
No One Is Forgotten: The 3D Spatial Radio Opera
The Dallas Opera
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Colored · National Black Theatre / The New Black Fest
Rape Aid · New Ohio Theater
Lines · Joe’s Pub
Paternity · Cherry Lane Mentor Project
Conspicuous · Keen Company / ConcordSelected Commissions
Miami New Drama · The New Black Fest · Baltimore Center Stage · Joe’s Pub · Guthrie Theater & The Playwrights’ Center · Keen Company
PUBLICATIONS
Concord
When Monica Met Hillary · No One Is Forgotten · Colored · Conspicuous · In Darfur · The Penetration Play
Tilbury House Publishers
Not a Cat: A Memoir by Gato as Told to Winter Miller
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Pretty Bitches · Gun Control Action Project · 13P: The Complete Plays · A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer · Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists · Smith & Kraus Best Of anthologies
AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
Bogliasco Foundation
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwriting Award
Sundance Institute
Hedgebrook
13Playwrights Founding Member / Obie Award
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SPACE on Ryder Farm · NYFA Women’s Media, Music and Theater Fund · Djerassi McElwee Annual Fellowship · New Georges Audrey Residency · The Civilians Associate Artist · Lark Playwrights Group · Playwrights’ Center Core Writer · Cherry Lane Mentor Project · Orchard Project · Blue Mountain Center · Guthrie Theatre / Playwrights’ Center Two-Headed Challenge
TEACHING
Fordham University · Adjunct Faculty
Boston University School of Theatre · Adjunct Faculty
Primary Stages / ESPA · FacultySouthern Methodist University · Adjunct Faculty
University of Delaware · Adjunct Faculty
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The Dramatists Guild Institute · Faculty
Columbia University, Narrative Medicine · Adjunct Faculty
The New Group · Faculty
The New School · Adjunct Faculty & Guest Lecturer
SUNY Purchase · Adjunct Faculty
New York Arts Connection / TRAC · InstructorGuest Lecturer: Princeton University, New York University, Sundance, Goddard College and The Playwrights’ Center.
JOURNALISM
The New York Times
Freelance Reporter, Arts, Metro & Style · 70+ articles
Variety
Staff Reporter, Independent Film
The New York Times
Researcher for Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas Kristof
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“What is the connection, and can we make this world a better place for any of us who want it and need it?”
The Subtext | American Theatre
Winter Miller Willed Theatre Into Her Existence
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“I write plays about things [that make] people afraid to produce them: abortions, genocide, hostage-taking,” Miller says. “I would like nothing more than full houses and people leaving talking about feminism.”
Christine Dolen
For Miami New Drama, Winter Miller imagines a Hillary Clinton-Monica Lewinsky face-off
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“Winter Miller has written a play “In Darfur” that will be performed this month at the Public Theater. She joins us to talk about journalism, activism and theater.”
The Brian Lehrer Show
Winter’s Tale
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“Playwright Winter Miller joins us to discuss her new play, “No One Is Forgotten,” now at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater through July 27.”
All of It with Alison Stewart
“No One Is Forgotten” with Winter Miller
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“Winter Miller stood out among the new playwrights seated around my seminar table at Columbia seven years ago. She had white-blonde spiky hair, a wicked sense of humor, and an outrageously bold intelligence—‘sassy’ would be the 1940s word for it. She was a fresh talent, and her work was a mix of black humor and a complicated look at sexual identity.”
Evangeline Morphos
Winter Miller by Evangeline Morphos
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“[Miller's] plays tend to be very topical, very physical, and very moving.”
Women & Hollywood
Winter Miller Discusses the Political Relevance of Her New Play “No One Is Forgotten”
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“Winter Miller has tackled challenging and controversial subjects, including genocide and abortion, in her work. After traveling to the refugee camps along the Chad-Sudan border with Nicholas Kristof, Miller wrote In Darfur... After premiering at the Public Theater, In Darfur played a standing-room only performance in Central Park’s Delacorte Theater—it was the first play by a woman to have that honor.”
Carey Purcell
50 Women in New York Theater You Should Know About
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“Winter Miller’s ferocious, forward-facing energy is contagious... In her words, in her work, in her sense of humor, she champions action and raises vital, challenging questions.”
Corey Ruzicano
A Conversation with Winter Miller
