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Phoebe Eaton

Phoebe Eaton is a multi-award-winning journalist, playwright, screenwriter, and sometime photojournalist. Gloria Steinem called her “a talented writer” in New York magazine.

She is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, the New York Observer, New York Post, Harper’s Bazaar, GQ (UK), Air Mail, Daily Beast, and the Guardian and Telegraph magazines.

Awards: Mexico's International Journalism Award (2021); Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Award (2020); three National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards (2020-2021); New York Press Club Award (2017).

Books: In the Thrall of the Mountain King: The Secret History of El Chapo, the World’s Most Notorious Narco

Education: University of Chicago, Harvard University, Columbia University, Jeff Sagansky TV Writers Program

Fellowships: Helene Wurlitzer Foundation playwright fellow, U.S.-Japan Foundation Japan Society media fellow (interviewed Tokyo yakuza/police)

Affiliations: Actors Studio Playwright/Directors Unit, Dramatists Guild. 2017-18 Woodward-Newman Drama Award finalist

Author/photographer: "In the Thrall of the Mountain King: The Secret History of El Chapo, the World's Most Notorious Narco." #1 Amazon Kindle Single Biography/Memoir New Release 2019

Eaton has reported ringside at the trial of Sinaloa Cartel boss El Chapo Guzmán. She's taken tea with Tokyo yakuza and the man trying to clone the woolly mammoth, traveled the French Riviera with high-end escorts, and walked the cemeteries of Juárez/Sinaloa. Her articles are fables on power starring such subjects as Harvey and Bob Weinstein, Anthony Weiner, Katie Couric, Ivana and Ivanka Trump, Ralph Lauren, Valentino, Sony’s Tommy Mottola, mafia defense attorney Gerry Shargel, screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, and shock-photog Terry Richardson.

A published playwright, Eaton is included in 2021 & 2019's "Best Women's Stage Monologues" (Smith & Kraus). Eaton's theater/film work considers issues involving the mentally ill; PTSD vets; immigrants; Black/Muslim/LGBTQ identity; crime; and the hypocrisies of big business/government.

Eaton is a 2023 Harvardwood Writers Competition finalist and 2022 TrackingB TV Pilot finalist-winner also shortlisted for a 2021 American Zoetrope Screenplay Award. 2019 Writers Guild East Writers Room finalist. 2018 Imagine [Entertainment] Impact finalist. 2018-19 ScreenCraft Stage Play Award finalist. Winner, Scriptapalooza TV Writing prize. Source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phoebeeaton/

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July 30, 2024 Edited by MargotMacomber Added Journalism page as related to the book given she's a Sinaloa Cartel specialist and these are related writings
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