Illustration by Michelle Tse.
ABOUT
Raised by activist feminist parents and schooled by Quakers, Winter Miller is surprisingly amusing. She makes and champions art to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Eartha Kitt once held her left hand for five minutes.
Winter is a founding member of the Obie-winning collective 13Playwrights. She graduated from Smith College with Latin honors and holds a Masters in Playwriting from Columbia University. Her plays are published by Concord and Broadway Licensing, her autobiographical essays feature in multiple anthologies. She published a children’s picture book, Not a Cat. She has worked with youth in refugee camps in Northern Uganda and Palestine and with LGBTQI+ youth in New York City making theater. To see what she was up to as a journalist once upon a time, please scroll.
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JOURNALISM
Winter has written more than 90 articles for The New York Times, as well as for New York Magazine, The Boston Globe, The International Herald Tribune, Variety, Huffington Post, The Village Voice, and Ms. Magazine. Her first job out of college was an NBC Page. She never returned her uniform.
She has also committed acts of journalism in surprising places such as: a week with Elvis fans at Graceland, investigating Scientology in Clearwater and chasing a tornado in Alabama for Fox News. For The New York Times, tailing Eliot Spitzer and a murder stakeout in Queens (those last two are unrelated). She was Nicholas Kristof’s researcher for four years and traveled with him to the Sudan border to write her play In Darfur.
Here are just some of the people she encountered at The NYT:
Cat Power Sobers Up, The New York Times
Standing Up For Your Gay Friend, The Boston Globe
Coffee, Tea or Meat? The New York Times
Spangles All Around The New York Times
Beyond Cute Boys in Their Underpants The New York Times
Supplies Dwindle at Food Pantries The New York Times
Love at First Sight The New York Times
A Freakish Tornado The New York Times
Warning System The New York Times
One Person’s Costume The New York Times
SNL New Wild and Crazy Guys -The New York Times
Female Playwrights New York Magazine