Biography
Mia Farrow, Samantha Power, Winter Miller. In Darfur in Central Park
Winter Miller’s plays include: In Darfur, The Penetration Play, Paternity, Conspicuous Cake and Ice Cream and Home/Away. She is developing The Arrival (Sundance Institute Playwriting Fellow 2010, Voice and Vision 2010), FUQs with Daphne Rubin-Vega and the musical Amandine.
Winter Miller’s plays have been produced or developed at: The Public, The Guthrie, Sundance, The New Group, 13P, The Donmar Warehouse, Theater J, Rattlestick, Keen Company, The Cherry Lane, Tricycle, New Georges, Geva, The Horizon, The Mosaic, The Playwrights Center Playlabs, Theatre Askew, Hourglass, Synapse and the 52nd Street Project.
Winter is currently mentored by Craig Lucas with the Cherry Lane Mentor Project 2009-10 season. Mr. Lucas is directing her comedy Paternity at the Cherry Lane in May 2010.
In Darfur premiered at The Public Theater, followed by a standing room only performance at their 1800-seat venue in Central Park, a first for a play by a woman. The play won the 2006 “Two-Headed Challenge” commission from the Guthrie and the Playwrights Center.
Winter authored The Penetration Play, Cake and Ice Cream, and Conspicuous among others. She is at work on The Arrival (Sundance Institute Playwriting Fellow 2010) and the musical Something’s Wrong With Amandine (Theaterworks, Electric Pear and an upcoming New York Theater Workshop Monday @3). Her plays have been published and performed in London, Uganda, Canada and regionally.
In 2007, Voices of Uganda brought Winter to Northern Uganda to write plays for a group of youth whose lives had been devastated by war and AIDS. Her monologue about a Ugandan grandmother, Lifelines has been performed at fundraising events by Ruby Dee, Allison Janney and Liv Ullman. The Ugandan youth group formed a theater troupe and with NGO assistance performs the plays in Luo for refugees living in nearby camps. The experience is documented in a forthcoming feature film.
The Penetration Play is published by Playscripts and excerpted in Smith & Kraus’ Best Stage Scenes 2005 and Best Monologues 2005. Her monologue, Mother to Son is published in Eve Ensler’s anthology A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer, (Random House) and in the anthology “Best Women’s Monologues of The Millennium” (Applause). “Mother…” has toured cities across the U.S. with the photo exhibit, “Darfur/Darfur” and the documentary “The Devil Came on Horseback.”
Winter’s essay is featured in the anthology, Click: Young Women on the Moments They Knew They Were Feminists (Seal Press, 2010).
As a journalist, Winter once chased a tornado and spent a week at Graceland, although not simultaneously. She has written for The New York Times, Variety, New York Magazine and The Boston Globe among others.
Winter has an MFA in playwriting from Columbia and graduated cum laude from Smith. She is a member of 13Playwrights. Her first job out of college was an NBC Page. She kept her uniform.