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Winter Miller is an award-winning playwright and founding member of the Obie-winning collective 13 Playwrights.

Her drama In Darfur premiered in a sold-out run at The Public Theater, followed by a standing-room-only performance at the 1,800-seat Delacorte Theater in Central Park, a first for a play by a woman. Her plays are produced nationally and published by Concord and others. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and graduated cum laude from Smith College.

13Playwrights Obie Award · New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow (2x) · Guthrie Theater & Playwrights’ Center Two-Headed Challenge · Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwriting Prize · Relentless Award Honorable Mention · 2026 New Dramatists Finalist
Winter’s work has also been recognized by the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Ojai Playwrights Conference and The Ground Floor.
Playwrights’ Center Core Writer · Cherry Lane Mentor Project · Sundance/Ucross · Joe’s Pub Residency with Toshi Reagon · Lark Playwrights Group (2x) · Djerassi McElwee Fellowship · Hedgebrook · Blue Mountain Center · Bogliasco Foundation · Orchard Project · SPACE on Ryder Farm · New Georges Audrey Residency · The Civilians Research & Development Lab · Theatreworks
Winter served as the Dramatists Guild’s first New York City Regional Representative and mentors incarcerated writers through PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing program. Through the Writers Guild of America East, she facilitates writing workshops for communities including wounded warriors, caregivers, people living with chronic illness, students, nurses and librarians.

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Featured Reviews

“Winter’s play is an urgent and passionate response to a crisis unfolding at this moment.”

Oskar Eustis

Artistic Director, The Public Theater · In Darfur

“A profoundly devastating play.”

The New Yorker

No One Is Forgotten

“A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.”

Lynn Nottage

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright · In Darfur

“The cracklingly funny dialogue summons up the feel of a raunchy gossip session that includes an uncomfortable, almost violent game of one-upmanship.”

Jason Zinoman

The New York Times · The Penetration Play

“A smart, elegantly simple three-character play for strong women actors that moves like lightning.”

Loren Noveck

NYTheatre.com · The Penetration Play

“Miller’s characters [are] as believable and tangible as anyone I know off-stage.”

Timothy John Papp

OffOffOnline · The Penetration Play

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Selected Works

In Darfur

An aid worker’s mission is to protect, a journalist’s is to break a story on Page One. Hawa, a Darfuri woman, is just trying to get to safety. Everyone’s decision has a consequence.

PREMIERE: The Public Theater

4w, 3m, 95 mins

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No One Is Forgotten

Lali and Beng are held captive.
No one knows where they’ve been taken or if they’re alive. Or, maybe their story has been broadcast to the world?
A story about intimacy, surrender, and the will to live.

PREMIERE: Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

2f, 85 mins

Opera Adaptation

Play Version

When Monica Met Hillary

Monica Lewinsky and Hillary Rodham Clinton have never met, never spoken to each other (as far as we know); but what if, decades later, they did?

PREMIERE: Miami New Drama

4w, 90 mins

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The Penetration Play

Rain is in love with her best friend. Ash could go either way. Rain makes a very poor choice. You know the adage, right? If at first you don’t succeed… seduce your best friend’s mom?

PREMIERE: 13P

3f, 80 mins

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New & Developing Works

In Development

1973

Née “Spare Rib”

A play about underground abortions?

No One Is Forgotten: An Immersive Opera

Staged & Radio Opera

Adapted from Winter Miller’s play by the same name.

Animalia Arthropoda

It’s true that life after the apocalypse is unpredictable.

Look At Us

Of course there are other fish in the sea. The ocean never said we're out of fish.

The Arrival

After an accidental murder, Batty fled her radical group, leaving her infant behind.

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Crack Something Open

Do you have a stubborn draft, a new idea, or a thing you know isn’t working yet? Work with Winter through advanced classes, dramaturgy, and one-on-one collaboration to dig deeper, untangle what’s stuck, and discover what the work wants to become.

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