Winter
Miller
Winter Miller makes art to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Miller
Winter
“I think that art transforms. And you can’t say ‘I didn’t know’ if you know.”
COLD READ, Profile On Winter Miller
Rebecca Mead | December 6, 2015
Playwright
A founding member of the Obie-winning collective 13P, Winter’s plays have been produced at theaters around the world, including The Public Theater.
Author
Winter co-wrote Not a Cat with her cat, Gato. Illustrations by Danica Novgorodoff, published by Tilbury House.
Journalist
During Winter’s early years as a playwright, she chased tornadoes, covered Scientology, tailed Eliot Spitzer, and wrote more than 90 articles for The New York Times.
Educator
Winter offers playwriting classes, dramaturgy, mentorship, workshops, and community-building.
Activist
Winter’s public-facing work includes survivor advocacy, collaborative public art, refugee and LGBTQ+ youth theater work, the Monument Quilt and Rape Aid.
Let's Make Something Good.
Interested in classes, dramaturgy, workshops, or collaborative projects? Whether you’re developing a new play, looking for thoughtful feedback, building your practice, or bringing a group together, there are plenty of ways to work with Winter.
It can be cat related. It doesn’t have to be cat related.
“Our work together is like being born.”
Maryann Plunkett
Tony, Drama Desk, and Obie-winning actor
“Winter’s advice has stuck with me over these years. I am forever grateful.”
Eboni Booth
Pulitzer Prize winner 2024, Primary Trust
“I came into my own as a writer in their class. I wrote the play that got me into Brown’s MFA Playwriting program.”
Ro Reddick
Brown MFA 2024, Blackburn Prize Winner 2026, Cold War Choir Practice
“Winter is a sherpa through your unconscious. I wrote the play that got me into grad school and transformed my life.”
Lauren Holmes
Hunter College MFA 2023, Princess Grace Award 2024
“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.”
Alice Dark
In the Gloaming, Fellowship Point
“Winter unlocked my ability to allow characters to exist and to trust that the plot/conflict/other mechanics would organically rise. She changed my whole writing life!”
Gina Femia
Award-winning playwright
Featured Works
A play about intimacy, surrender, and the will to live. Premiered at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
A profoundly devastating play.
— The New Yorker
Monica Lewinsky and Hillary Clinton have never met; but what if, decades later, they did? Premiered at Miami New Drama.
"Riveting theater presented with clarity”
–Miami Herald
A tale of three lives that intersect in a refugee camp. Premiered at The Public Theater.
“An excellent, poignant play.”
– The New York Times
Art & Activism
A nationwide survivor-led public art installation confronting sexual and intimate partner violence.
Rape Aid brought together playwrights, performers, filmmakers, and musicians for an evening of performance & collective action confronting rape culture head-on.
Winter participated in a pre-dawn attempt to hang a 100-foot bright pink banner reading “VOTE” from the Manhattan Bridge ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
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“In Darfur forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.”
Lynn Nottage
