Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Gary Winter

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003, 2006, 2011, 2013, 2019

Gary Winter was a member of OBIE-Award winning 13P. His plays have been produced at the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville (2015 Heideman Award), P.S. 122, The Flea, The Chocolate Factory, Defunkt Theater, HERE, and the Cherry Lane Alternative. Support from Page 73 (2018 Interstate 73 Writers Group), The New Group, Playwrights Horizons, Puffin Foundation, Jewish Play Project, BRIC Intimate Eye, MacDowell, and Yaddo. He has received Dramatists Guild, Lark Theatre and Dash-Epstein (EST) Fellowships. His play, I Love Neil Labute, was published in Shorter Faster Funnier: Comic Plays and Monologues (Vintage, 2011). He wrote the scenario Pi’ilani and Ko’olau for composer Jonathan Newman, performed in September 2019 with the Florida State University Wind Orchestra (directed by Richard Clary). Gary received a Spielberg Righteous Person’s Fellowship to study Eastern European Jewry in Krakow, Poland. He is a mentor with the PEN Prison Writing Program and is a tutor for incarcerated individuals taking college classes at the Queensboro Correctional Facility. M.F.A.-NYU. In residence in 2013, he worked on his new play, Ballad of Bruno and Shale. In 2019, he worked on a new play called Reckless Eyeballing, which is loosely inspired by the work he has done over the past two years as tutoring at the Queensboro Correctional facility. In 2020 his libretto Carnival of Souls (composer Jonathan Newman) will be performed at Shenendoah College.

Studios

Monday Music

Gary Winter worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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