- Phoebe Eaton is a multi-award-winning journalist, playwright, and screenwriter known for The Killer Interview (2023). For the NY Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, the Guardian et al., she has covered business, crime, politics, and style. An organized-crime expert, she received Mexico's 2021 International Journalism Award for cartel reporting in Sinaloa state and a 2017 New York Press Club Award for the same in Guerrero state, Mexico. Traveling to Sinaloa in December, 2018, she exclusively interviewed the family of Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán during his New York trial at his hometown hideout deep in the Sierra Madre. After her Kindle Single series "In the Thrall of the Mountain King" was excerpted in the New York Post, it was the No. 1 "Organized Crime" Kindle Single its first week out, No. 7 Amazon Hot New Releases/Organized Crime. She has appeared on many documentaries, news shows, and podcasts, the venues including Dateline NBC, Entertainment Tonight, Fox's Good Day New York, Court TV, Fox Nation, and NY1. She won three 2021-22 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards for investigative reporting/hard news and a 2020 Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Award for her three-part investigative series on studio heads Harvey and Bob Weinstein, the most read story in the history of Air Mail weekly and featuring haunting interviews with the both of them.
As a screenwriter, she has been a 2022 Trackingb TV pilot finalist-winner, also shortlisted for the 2021 American Zoetrope Screenplay Award and Harvardwood's Writers Award in addition to being a past winner of the Scriptapalooza TV Writing Award. Her plays have been developed at Naked Angels, the Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit, the Dramatists Guild, and the Kennedy Center. Eaton grew up in the Republic of Ireland and in New York.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Administrator
- She has reported from the Middle and Far East (where she interviewed Tokyo yakuza and police detectives), also living in Europe/Istanbul.
- She has taught playwriting to juvenile inmates of the Rikers Island Correctional Facility and is a member of the Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit.
- Named a 2017-2018 Woodward/Newman Drama Award finalist and shortlisted for the 2019 Austin Film Festival Stage Play/Playwriting Award for her play "Woman Descending a Staircase." 2018-2019 ScreenCraft Stage Play Award finalist for her play "A Field Guide to the Amazon." Her work is excerpted in both Smith & Kraus's The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2021 (and 2019) anthologies and also in She Persisted: Best Stage Monologues 2021 (Applause Books).
- Attended Harvard age 15, Columbia, and graduated with a B.A. from University of Chicago.
- If there were such a thing as an "average day" I wouldn't be doing this for a living. That said, certain patterns emerge. Scene One of the The Average Day opens with four newspapers: The New York Post is read first. the Times, last. Assuming there are no action-figure, on-location interviews requiring the wearing of a responsible-connoting suit: Enter Author, wearing lima-green scrubs, the legacy of a surgeon ex, that has fellow condo tenants shooting knowing, respectful glances in the elevator, having decided Author must be "on call" or "just off shift," which is why she is occasionally spotted making 1 a.m. trips to the convenience store across the street in the emergency-room get-up.
- There's something about the money in this case. The money was so stratospheric. It was every rich guy's nightmare. The wife starts carrying on with, you know, one of the below-stairs staffers, and he comes and kills you in the night. (Dateline NBC: "Mystery of the Murdered Millionaire," 2008)
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