Your weird idea is welcome in Winter’s classroom.
Winter teaches playwriting, storytelling, and creative process through classes, workshops, dramaturgy, and one-on-one collaboration. Her approach emphasizes curiosity, emotional honesty, risk-taking, and helping writers discover what only they can write. She is a Plays in Progress mentor with Dramatists Guild.
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Playwriting Workshop Winter 2026-2027
Monday Souls: A community of 8 writers bringing in scene work each Monday with individually tailored writing prompts. Souls is an ongoing practice that runs in 8-week sessions.
Who: newish and experienced playwrights | When: Mondays 4-7pm ET 8 sessions
Where: Zoom | Investment: $700* payment plans available
Winter session: 11/30, 12/7, 12/14, 1/4, 1/11, 1/18, 2/1, 2/15, (makeup 2/22)
REGISTER FOR 2027 WORKSHOPS
Upcoming Playwriting Workshops 2027
Playwriting Workshop Winter 2027
PRONTO! Write your speedy first draft. A group of 6 writers bring in new pages each Wednesday. Pronto! is instinct-based: Get your whole play on the page by the end of this workshop.
Who: newish and experienced playwrights | When: Weds 4-6pm ET | Where: Zoom | Investment: $700*
Playwriting Workshops Winter 2027
Bridge: An intimate class limited to 6 experienced writers.
Who: Experienced playwrights | When: Wednesdays 9:30-11:30am ET | Where: Virtual | Investment: $705* Winter session: 1/6, 1/13, 1/20, 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24 (makeup 3/3)
*payment plans available, let’s make it work for you!
A bridge person is someone who creatively bares their most vulnerable thoughts and experiences in order to offer peace and comfort to others in challenging times, even though they are always terrified of being called out or judged. ~ Frances Lee
1:1: 30-minute weekly sessions until your draft meets your vision. Perfect for the writer who wants the discipline of weekly prompts, accountability, and a strong guiding hand. Range of experience: very new or professional.
Dramaturgical script consult: Book a consult for your entire draft! 60 mins with 2-3pp notes.
Individual Coaching
Available Offerings
Winter works with novelists, screenwriters, playwrights, poets, actors, physicists, and possibly you. Learning to be an editor of your own work is as important as being able to tell the story. Be kind. Be wrong. Be tender. Try it again. Be generous. Keep going.
Group Playwriting Workshops
Multi-week sessions focused on scene work, structure, character, dialogue, revision, and developing new theatrical work.
School & Youth Programming
Programs for students ranging from classroom visits tied to Not a Cat to theater-making workshops for young writers and performers.
1:1 Dramaturgy
Individual support for playwrights, screenwriters, and artists developing projects at any stage.
Offerings include: full draft feedback, development conversations, revision support, and ongoing weekly work as you develop your script.
Creative Workshops
Flexible workshops for schools, universities, community organizations, theaters, and festivals.
Can be adapted around: storytelling, writing prompts, collaborative creation, identity and voice, performance, and creative risk-taking.
Is it possible to teach someone how to write? First you teach them how to listen.
“When I was first trying to write and definitely didn't know how to write a play and was feeling anxious, you told me to pay attention to the thing I wanted to write about. You told me that even though it might not be fully formed, something was there that needed to be expressed and it was okay if it didn't look like other people's plays and it was okay if it took a while to realize itself. That has stuck with me over these years. I am forever grateful, Winter.”
Eboni Booth
Pulitzer Prize winner 2024, Primary Trust
“Our work together is like being born.”
Maryann Plunkett
Tony, Drama Desk, and Obie-winning actor
“I wrote the play that got me into Brown’s MFA Playwriting program in Winter’s class. They gave me precise feedback that strengthened the play’s structure and character development, encouraged my impulses around music, and reflected back all the things that were working so that I didn’t give up. I came into my own as a writer in their class. I can’t recommend it highly enough.”
Ro Reddick
Brown MFA 2024, Blackburn Prize Winner 2026, Cold War Choir Practice
“Winter is a sherpa through your unconscious. Through her exercises, her feedback, and her encouragement, she helps you unearth images, stories, characters that you never knew were inside of you. In Winter's class, I wrote the play that got me into grad school and basically transformed my life. I return to her prompts regularly as I write, and try to take her classes whenever I can.”
Lauren Holmes
Hunter College MFA 2023, Princess Grace Award 2024
“I had a major commission I was struggling to finish. Working with Winter helped me finish my draft in leaps and bounds. Winter's compassionate, laser-focused guidance made my play stronger and more emotionally impactful than I could have imagined. I left with a draft I was deeply proud of.”
Aaron Coleman
Yale Drama Series Prize Finalist
“Winter is a guide who sees all of you, encourages you to bravely do the same, and put that wild, full being on the page.”
Lily Padilla
Yale Drama Series Prize 2019, How to Defend Yourself
“Winter listens carefully to each student’s work and responds with insightful questions that inspire excitement about both moving forward and revision.”
Alice Dark
In the Gloaming, Fellowship Point
“Studying with Winter proved to be a turning point in my own artistic process as a writer. She encouraged me to follow my artistic instincts and I found my characters growing deeper and the stories they were telling beginning to become more nuanced. ... Winter unlocked my ability to allow characters to exist and to trust that the plot, conflict, and other mechanics would organically rise within a piece. Winter changed my whole writing life!”
Gina Femia
Award-winning playwright
Writing is simply paying attention to language, contradiction, impulse, tension, humor, and the strange ways people survive each other.
We create stories because we are so desperate to connect; it is how we locate our humanity, our empathy and it’s how we cease to be alone. There has never been a time without stories and there never will be. The rules have all been broken so take that risk; write the story only you can tell. The time is now.
