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What I do:
Journalist-playwright-screenwriter
A little more about me:
Phoebe Eaton
https://www.phoebeeaton.com
Phoebe Eaton is a multi-award-winning journalist, playwright, and screenwriter. Much of her creative work draws on her investigative journalism, and her awards include: Mexico's International Journalism Award 2021; the Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Award 2020, and a New York Press Club Award in 2017. A regular contributor to the New York Times, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, the New York Observer, Harper’s Bazaar, British GQ, The Daily Beast, et al., she's also had her work also published in the Observer (UK) and in the Saturday Telegraph Magazine. A member of the Actors Studio Playwright/Directors Unit, she's a 2022 trackingb TV script finalist, also shortlisted for Francis Ford Coppola's 2021 American Zoetrope Screenplay Award. She has been a 2017 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation playwright fellow, a 2019 Writers Guild East MINY Writers Room finalist, a 2018 Imagine [Entertainment] Impact Content Accelerator finalist (top 1% of 4,000 applicants), and 2018 semifinalist for the 21st Century Fox Writers Lab. Her A FIELD GUIDE TO THE AMAZON re: the sex-abuse lawsuit industry is a 2018-19 ScreenCraft Stage Play Award finalist and semi-finalist 2018's LaBute New Theater Festival (as shorter, one-act iteration GOOD PEOPLE). Goodman Theatre literary manager Jonathan L. Green: “A sharp analysis of contemporary society. Dialogue is snappy and distinctive.” 2019 Papatango New Writing Prize committee (Second Round): “You write some really cracking dialogue. Nicely structured, and there is real skill on display throughout.” Her full-length London-set play, WOMAN DESCENDING A STAIRCASE, is a 2017-18 Woodward/Newman Drama Award finalist. ("From hundreds of plays, yours was selected by our committee as being among the best of the best. That's no small feat.") Short list, 2019 Austin Film Festival Stage Play/Playwriting Award. Playwrights Horizons literary director Sarah Lunnie: "A yearning and melancholic drama, rendered in lovely precise language." Her play PAN was shortlisted for the 2016 Stanley Drama Award. O’Neill Conference 2016 citation: “Our readers expressed great admiration for PAN.” Playwrights Horizons literary manager Sarah Lunnie: “A linguistically rich and endlessly clever comedy of manners.” ACTRESS/WAITRESS/ MODEL/'HO tracks a woman’s path to sex work (New Georges new-play advocate: “Great fun.”) Scriptapalooza TV Writing prize ("Breaking Bad" episode). Japan Society Fellow 2003 (interviewed yakuza). Winner 2021 Press Club of Mexico International Journalism Award, and 2021 finalist Deadline Club Award. 2021 and 2021 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards and 2020 Front Page Award/Investigative Reporting for a series on Harvey and Bob Weinstein. 2017-18 Press Club Award for Mexican cartel reporting. Dramatists Guild.

EDUCATION: University of Chicago, Harvard University, Columbia University.
Location:
Location
Projects I’m working on:
Various and sundry.
Personal Website/CV:
http://www.phoebeeaton.com
Twitter @username:
byPhoebeEaton

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