Some stories Winter invents. Others she goes out and finds.
While Winter was becoming a playwright, she spent years reporting stories across New York and beyond, writing more than 90 articles for The New York Times as well as New York Magazine, Variety, The Boston Globe, and others.
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9 Lives and Counting: Cat Power Sobers Up
The New York Times
September 20, 2006
“It would seem that every fan has a Cat Power concert story: the time she mooned the audience, cursed out techies, talked to a squirrel (outdoors), played three chords and changed her mind...”
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Love at First Sight, Transcending Nazi Internment
The New York Times
December 5, 2007
“In the 15 months the two spent in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen in Germany, they not only shared many moments together but they also wrote many love letters to each other.”
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A) Sexy, B) Loud or C) Dreamy? Try D) All of the Above.
The New York Times
January 28, 2007
“Imagine a time before alternative country. Before Americana and roots rock. Picture a corner office, sometime in the early ’80s, with record executives scratching their heads over how to market a talented singer, songwriter and guitarist from Louisiana named Lucinda Williams.”
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Waiting to Go Home, 2 Months After a Freakish Tornado
The New York Times
October 16, 2007
“For most New Yorkers, the tornado was a meteorological curiosity, only the city’s sixth since 1950, arriving on Aug. 8 during a powerful storm that also hobbled the city’s transit system. But in Brooklyn, where winds of up to 135 miles per hour knocked over trees, damaged several dozen homes and caused millions of dollars in damage, the storm’s gouges remain.”
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Coffee, Tea or Meat?
The New York Times
May 4, 2008
“Their green disks were facing up, and meat arrived like some kind of sacrificial rite: sirloin steak, sausage, ribs, skirt steak, flank steak, chicken, lamb, rib-eye. The ladies accompanied it with pinot grigio and Patrón.”
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It’s Hard Out There for a Female Playwright, Study Finds
New York Magazine / Vulture
June 22, 2009
“Why are the majority of plays produced written by men? Why do even the most talented female playwrights seem to have a hard time making their way to Broadway? Artistic directors say they tend to receive more scripts from male playwrights. Yet female playwrights say they submit work frequently and it’s often neglected.”
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Winter’s reporting has taken her to
Internally Displaced Persons camps in Uganda, tornado zones in Alabama, Scientology headquarters in Clearwater, a murder stakeout in Queens, youth refugee camps in Palestine, Elvis fan clubs in Graceland, and the Sudan border alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof.
she interviewed musicians, activists, politicians, disaster survivors, and people navigating extraordinary circumstances in ordinary places.
Along the way,
Selected Articles
“In Darfur is based on a real case in Darfur’s Kalma camp that I once reported on. It’s an excellent poignant play.”
NI C H O L A S D. K R I S T O F
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, on Winter’s play “In Darfur”