Winter Miller
Kitgum, Uganda. Photo by Katy Fox
Winter Miller’s plays include: In Darfur, The Penetration Play, Conspicuous and Cake and Ice Cream. Paternity is currently mentored by Craig Lucas with the Cherry Lane Mentor Project, where he will direct it in May 2010. She is developing The Arrival (Sundance Institute Playwriting Fellow 2010) and the musical Something’s Wrong With Amandine.
Her plays have been produced/developed by: The Public, 13P, The Guthrie, Sundance, The New Group, New York Theater Workshop, The Donmar, Theater J, Rattlestick, Keen Company, The Cherry Lane, Tricycle, New Georges, Geva, Theaterworks, Electric Pear, Horizon, Mosaic, Theatre Askew, and the 52nd Street Project among others, as well as in London, Uganda and Canada.
Winter is a member of 13P. A frequent journalist, she once chased a tornado and spent a week at Graceland, although not simultaneously. Her first job out of college was an NBC Page. She kept her uniform.
Happening Now
- In Darfur now available in print (Playscripts.com)
- FUQs: Frequently Unanswered Questions Women Center Stage Festival at Culture Projec
- Winter’s essay in the anthology, Click, on sale May 2010 (Sealpress.com)
- In Darfur in Washington DC’s Theater J April 2010
- Paternity directed by Craig Lucas, Cherry Lane Theatre May 2010
- Youth Project NYC May, 2010
Recent Press
- Chicago Sun-Times Review for In Darfur (Jan 26, 2011)
- Chicago Tribune Review for In Darfur (Jan 25, 2011)
- Chicago Feature for In Darfur (Jan 20, 2011)
- Chicago Sun-Times Feature for In Darfur (Feb 22, 2011)
- New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof plugs In Darfur
- Matthew Wells reporting on In Darfur for the BBC Radio, July 2007
- Winter at Sundance Institute February 2010 (Variety.com)
- Writing plays in conflict zones (Backstage.com)
- I Interview Playwrights Part 77 by Adam Szymkowicz