Winter Miller

Winter Miller is an award-winning playwright whose plays include: When Monica Met Hillary, No One Is Forgotten, 1973, Animalia Arthropoda, The Arrival, The Penetration Play, Conspicuous (YA), and Lines with Toshi Reagon and Lear DeBessonet. In Darfur premiered in a sold-out run at The Public, followed by an SRO performance at Central Park’s 1800-seat Delacorte, a first for a play by a woman. She wrote the libretto for the opera No One Is Forgotten with composers Paola Prestini and Sxip Shirey.

Her play Colored is in the anthology Facing Our Truth: 10-minute Plays on Trayvon, Race and Privilege. Her work is featured in V Ensler’s A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer, and she has an essay in Pretty Bitches and Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists.

They are a founding member of the Obie-winning collective 13Playwrights, with honors from NYFA (2x), and fellowships at Sundance, Hedgebrook, Djerassi (MacElwee Fellow), Cherry Lane Mentor Project, Bogliasco, Blue Mountain Center, Space at Ryder, Playwrights Center Core Writer, Civilians R&D, NNPN, New Georges, and a Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwriting Prize.

She has created theater with youth surviving war-torn areas of Northern Uganda and Palestine, and LGBTQIA communities in NYC. New Georges affiliate and elected NYC’s first Dramatists Guild Rep.

Her first children’s picture book, Not A Cat, is published by Tilbury House. Smith College, BA, Columbia University MFA. Winter wrote 90+ articles for The New York Times, and is profiled in The New Yorker, Bomb, New York Magazine, and on NPR’s Brian Lehrer and All of It with Alison Stewart. Eartha Kitt once held her left hand for five minutes.