PLAYS
Gary Winter is a member of OBIE award winner 13P-13 playwrights who self-produce. Gary's plays include Cooler (defunkt theater); At Said (PS 122-13P production #4); Golem and Dead Reckoning (Cherry Lane Alternative); Execution of a Reindeer and The Impotent General (Brick Theater); Ominous Bastard of Czsherpishnek (HERE); The Lake and Aeneas (The Flea); Jigsaw Nation (South Coast Rep, Curious Theater Co. and 2005 New York Fringe Festival, with Relentless Theatre Co.), Eye of Horus (Audacity Theater Lab). Short plays at Little Theater and Sticky.

Gary's ten-minute play, The White Room, was a finalist for ATL's 2009 Heideman Award and was published in Eleven Eleven Journal #8. Centrifugal Force received readings at Playwrights Horizons and Geva Theater. Centrifugal Force was also a runner up for the 2002 Princess Grace Award and received a reading at EST's Octoberfest. At Said was workshopped and read in March 2005 at the Long Wharf Theatre. Cooler was workshopped at NYU in fall 2006 as part of their First Look @ New Plays series.

Cooler will have its NY premiere at The Chocolate Factory April 9-24, 2010.

LIBRETTO
Gary recently completed his first libretto, Carnival of Souls, based on the 1962 cult classic film of that title. Jonathan Newman is composing music for the piece.

SUPPORT
Gary has received support/fellowships from Rita and Burton Goldberg, the Lark Theater, The Dramatists Guild, Dasha-Epstein, John Golden Fund, MacDowell and YADDO. In 1997 he was awarded a Spielberg Foundation Righteous Persons Fellowship to study Eastern European Jewry in Krakow. MFA-NYU.

ETC...
Gary occasionally reviews books, plays and art for the The Brooklyn Rail. From 1998-2008 Gary volunteered as Literary Manager of the Flea Theater. He continues to be involved with the Flea, and helps organize the Flea's Pataphysics Workshops for Playwrights. From 1984-1989 Gary directed and co-produced The Scott & Gary Show for air on cable television. The program featured experimental bands performing before a live studio audience, and included The Beastie Boys, The Butthole Surfers, 1/2 Japanese, The Ben Vaughn Combo and Shockabilly. A retrospective of the show was seen at film festivals around the country, 200-2001. In 2008 The Scott & Gary Show was acquired by NYU's Fales Library Special Collections.

CONTACT
Gary.Winter@nyu.edu

ARTISTIC ADVISORS
Sheila Callaghan
Kip Fagan
Rob Handel
Jonathan Newman
Jim Simpson
Anne Washburn