Gary Winter was a member of OBIE-Award winning 13P.

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His plays have been produced at the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville (2015 Heideman Award), P.S. 122, The Brick, The Flea, The Chocolate Factory, Defunkt Theater, HERE, and the Cherry Lane Alternative. He was a member of the 2018 Interstate 73 Writers Group (Page 73), and has been a fellow at The Lark Theater Company and The Dramatists Guild.  Readings and workshops with The New Group, Playwrights Horizons, Geva Theatre, The Long Wharf and the Jewish Play Project. Gary has received residencies at MacDowell and YADDO. He wrote the scenario, Pi’ilani and Ko’olau, for composer Jonathan Newman, which was performed in Fall 2019 by the Florida State University Wind Orchestra. You can watch the performance here!

 

Gary’s play, I Love Neil LaBute was published in Shorter Faster Funnier: Comic Plays and Monologues (Vintage, 2011), and his playwriting exercise is published in The Playwright’s Toolbox (Applause, 2024). He taught a workshop on writing ten-minute plays at Carnegie Mellon’s Dramatic Writing MFA program.

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Gary recently completed a young adult novel, The Boy Behind the Camera, and is currently working on his next book.

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For the past ten years Gary has helped organize the non-profit STILLWRIGHT, which offers free contemplative writing retreats to playwrights, serving over 200 playwrights.

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Gary was the director and co-creator of The Scott and Gary Show!, a live music show which featured notable musical guests such as The Beastie Boys and The Butthole Surfers. The show has been included in the Museum of The Moving Image exhibition TV Party: A Panorama of Public Access Television in NYC; the Museum of the City of New York exhibition New York, New Music 1980-1986 and is part of New York University’s Fales Library Special Collections. 

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Gary has tutored incarcerated individuals taking college classes at the Queensboro Correctional Facility, and is a mentor with PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program.