Journalist Phoebe Eaton on the Great Wall of China. — ***[IMAGES ON PAGE © PHOEBE EATON 2024]***

[Phoebe Eaton | Author and Journalist]

“A TALENTED WRITER”

— GLORIA STEINEM in New York Magazine

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Overview.

Mariachis of Culiacan waiting for ad hoc gigs from passing cars in the middle of the night in Culiacan. — [CLICK PIC FOR CULIACÁN PHOTO PORTFOLIO *(IMAGE © PHOEBE EATON 2024)*]

Phoebe Eaton is a multi-award-winning journalist, playwright, screenwriter, and sometime photojournalist.

A regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, Vanity Fair, the New York Observer, Harper’s Bazaar, Men’s Vogue, GQ (UK), Air Mail, and The Daily Beast among many others, she’s also had articles appear in the Guardian and the Saturday Telegraph and Observer magazines.

A reporter working internationally and author of the nonfiction book IN THE THRALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING: THE SECRET HISTORY OF EL CHAPO, THE WORLD’S MOST NOTORIOUS NARCO, Eaton has had a unique crash course in how myriad worlds work, in all the ways people get broken. Her stories are cited in umpteen Wikipedia articles and by hundreds of books, academic journals, and studies, according to Google Scholar. Gloria Steinem called her “a talented writer” in New York magazine.

Eaton has appeared on Fox’s Good Day New York, Dateline NBC, Entertainment Tonight, Court TV/truTV’s Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice, NY1, the Recount Network’s News Items with John Ellis podcast, Fox Nation’s The Killer Interview with Piers Morgan, et al. Her long-form pieces have been translated into several languages. Her (yet to be properly utilized) substack is : HERE BE DRAGONS.

Journalist.

Awards: Phoebe Eaton received Mexico’s International Journalism Award 2021 from the Press Club of Mexico for her reporting on the Sinaloa Cartel. She has also been a winner of the Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Award for Investigative Reporting 2020 across all media; three National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards 2020-2021 (Investigative and Hard News); and a 2021 Deadline Club Award finalist designation for her three-part THE MAKING OF A PREDATOR series in Air Mail weekly featuring exclusive, strangely revealing interviews with Harvey and Bob Weinstein exposing the secret demons struggling for both their souls and the dysfunctional family dynamics that led them to this terrible place.

In 2017, Eaton won a New York Press Club Journalism Award for reporting in Guerrero state, Mexico, with the publication of CARTEL WATCH: PENITENTES, PEDOPHILES, POETS, MOVIE STARS, SILVERSMITHS, AND DRUG LORDS in The Daily Beast. This was the first (and to date, only) article to chart one town’s waxing and waning cartel presence as reflected in a religious spectacle dating from the 16th century and its long-held dirty secret of child sacrifices made to an American pederast who’d single-handedly revived the economy and introduced the place to Hollywood types —JFK honeymooning here.

[ “This series was thorough, innovative, and informative. Covering powerful men like Harvey Weinstein is always tricky and difficult, but Phoebe Eaton hit it out of the park, doing a fantastic job not just covering the nitty-gritty of issues surrounding what has been a notorious case, but also getting these men to talk to her. This is what investigative journalism is made for — speaking truth to power.”] —2020 FRONT PAGE AWARD CITATION

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Screenwriter.

Phoebe Eaton's theater and film work considers complex issues involving sex workers; the queer and transgender individual; the mentally ill; PTSD war veterans; immigrants; women; the Black experience; Muslim identity; crime; and the soullessness/hypocrisies of big business and government.

Awards and honors: Eaton is also a finalist-winner of 2022’s TrackingB TV Script Award, a finalist in the 2023 Harvardwood Writers Competition (TV pilot), and shortlisted for 2021’s American Zoetrope studios Screenplay Award (TV pilot). A 2020-2021 Jeff Sagansky Harvardwood Television Writers Program selectee, she was a 2019 Writers Guild East MINY Writers Room finalist and a 2018 Imagine [Entertainment] Impact Content Accelerator finalist (top 1% of 4,000).

Eaton is a past winner of a Scriptapalooza TV Writing Prize (BREAKING BAD: "RESURRECTION"), drawing on sources in the FBI/DEA and rustling up her own meth cook-slash-explosives expert, known to his militia following as "Uncle Fester."

Playwright.

A member of the Actors Studio Playwright/Directors Unit, the Dramatists Guild, and a PEN Prison Writing Program mentor, Eaton has seen her work developed via the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive (Gary Garrison/Mark Bly/Marsha Norman) and a Tina Satter/Half Straddle Writing/Directing Workshop. Readings via the Dramatists Guild, Kennedy Center, Naked Angels, LAMA, Breakthrough Los Angeles, and Actors Studio Playwright/Directors Unit.

Awards and honors: A 2017 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation playwright fellow, Eaton was a 2018-2019 ScreenCraft Stage Play Award finalist for her A FIELD GUIDE TO THE AMAZON, which is excerpted and included in Smith & Kraus’s BEST STAGE MONOLOGUES 2021 series. Another full-length, WOMAN DESCENDING A STAIRCASE (excerpted in Smith & Kraus’s BEST STAGE MONOLOGUES 2019 series and in Applause Books’ SHE PERSISTED: MONOLOGUES BY WOMEN 2021) was a 2017-18 Woodward-Newman Drama Award finalist-winner and also shortlisted for the 2019 Austin Film Festival Stage Play/Playwriting Award.

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"She Persisted: Monologues by Women" book cover..

With Pulitzer-prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley, at a reading of her play at New York City's Actors Studio Playwright/Directors Unit. — [Above: With playwright JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY in the ACTORS STUDIO PLAYWRIGHT/ DIRECTORS UNIT. Below: ZERO BOY and SAYRA PLAYER in WOMAN DESCENDING A STAIRCASE (PDU).] ***(IMAGES © PHOEBE EATON 2024)***

Zero Boy and Sayra Player in the Actor's Studio PDU reading of Phoebe Eaton's play Woman Descending a Staircase.

[ “From hundreds of plays, yours was selected by our committee as being among the best of the best. That's no small feat.”] —2017-2018 WOODWARD/NEWMAN DRAMA AWARD FINALIST CITATION

Journalist Phoebe Eaton at the gateway to El Chapo's hometown in Sinaloa, Mexico. — **[PHOEBE EATON** **interviewed El Chapo’s family in his** **Sinaloa hometown;** CLICK PIC FOR LA TUNA PHOTO PORTFOLIO *(IMAGE © PHOEBE EATON 2024)]*

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Shag competition at Fat Harold's Beach Club in North Myrtle Beach, where this swingy state dance originated in the Black community some time in the late Thirties. #bustingmoves #shagadelic

Hollywood Boulevard bikini bar, nightfall.
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#cocktails #everydaylosangeles #thaitown #womenstreetphotographers #hoorayforhollywoodblvd

Bulgarian Blofeld and male "showgirl" at Havana's El Tropicana. Sorting through Cuba portfolios last week—with special thanks to world's greatest post-production photo genie (and, as it happens, my Ohio aunt) @sylviaschelkers.
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Res ipsa loquitur, as he liked to say. #ThePhoebeDad #YoursTruly

Speaking of candidates for #ozempic, here's Ernesto Hemingway's bathroom wall at his Havana-outskirts ranch house #fincavigia, where, in his final decade, he was desperately trying to shed weight, obsessively documenting his progress from 1950 onward

"Athletes rejected
Governors corrected
Gangsters, thugs and smugglers
Are thoroughly respected -- "
#lastnight #grandmasterflash #sanctuaryforfamilies

Like a dirty bomb went off here. No filters. #curiousyellow #apocalypsenow #Chernewyork

Et in Arcadia, le Frosé.
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Bensonhurst twins, holding hands. #redrum
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Best signs off the Writers Strike/NYC picket lines, Day One. (Advance with arrow.)
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#bestsigns #writersstrike #wgaeast #kingrat #lookfortheunionlabel

With @lhakpa_sherpa10 at @the_explorers_club last night -- first female to summit Everest ten times -- talking about Tengboche monastery (pic #3) en route to Everest base camp, where mountaineers stop to pray before attempting ascent and where the ba

Yards away, you can get a mean mojito starting at 6 in the morning. 'Cause that's how they roll at #LaPlacita #badasswithclass #Santurcesupermodel
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The moody hole-in-the-wall Marilyn Bar. #viejosanjuan #marilynmonroe #methodbartending

Nightfall at the inexplicably/not so appetizingly named "Chinese foods" restaurant "Han Cream," a wonderful Hopper-style period piece in #viejosanjuan.

Order some shrimp en salsa langosta or enchilado with your fried wontons or

Cortadito break with Greenwich Village-born Franciscan Friar Ramón and a man who once won $100,000 in the lottery....and hopes to win again. #viejosanjuan #callesanfrancisco #cafeteria

Not wildly confidence-inspiring: On the beach in San Juan's primo hotel district. #puertorico #myheartsdevotion

Lower East Side dogsmanship.
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IN THE THRALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING: The Secret History of EL CHAPO, the World’s Most Notorious Narco (In Search of El Chapo Book 1)

By Eaton, Phoebe

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Books.

Phoebe Eaton has sat ringside at the trial of extradited Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, exclusively interviewing his family multiply in his hometown hideout La Tuna deep in the Sierra Madre mountains and in Sinaloa’s capital Culiacán as he stood in the dock back in New York City. She is the author of the nonfiction Kindle Single “IN THE THRALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING: THE SECRET HISTORY OF EL CHAPO, THE WORLD’S MOST NOTORIOUS NARCO” excerpted in the New York Post on 2/3/19 with her own original, rare photography; No. 1 “Organized Crime” Kindle Single its first week out and No. 7 Amazon Hot New Releases/Organized Crime. In December, 2021, she received for this work the Premio Internacional de Periodismo—Mexico’s International Journalism Award—from the Press Club of Mexico (Club de Periodistas de México).

[ “Extraordinario trabajo.”] —2021 PRESS CLUB OF MEXICO INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM AWARD CITATION, for reporting in Sinaloa on Sinaloa Cartel jefe El Chapo Guzmán.

Eaton was a 2019 recipient of a Steven Sotloff Memorial 2Lives Foundation Global Journalist Security (GJS) HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS SCHOLARSHIP to support her news-gathering from Sinaloa state (gunfire/kidnapping reaction; basic weaponry; combat medic training; digital security). She has additional riots and civil-unrest training from Columbia University’s Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and is HEFAT certified (Vice Media, 2022). Via multiple (2020/2021/2022) Women Photograph Workshops, she’s also had ACOS Alliance safety-module instruction. (Translation: she’s got some sense of what to do if she’s being tear-gassed, kidnapped, or shot at.)

Photojournalism.

Phoebe Eaton has photo-documented unusual goings-on all over the world to accompany her reported stories and support her TV and feature-film scripts. (See PHOTO PROJECTS in the Menu and/or CLICK HERE FOR PHOTO GALLERY.)

A "host club" billboard in Kabukicho, Tokyo; photo by Phoebe Eaton. — [KABUKICHO HOST CLUB, TOKYO, CIRCA 2003 *(IMAGE © PHOEBE EATON 2024)*]

Back story.

Eaton’s career as a writer was launched as a United States-Japan Foundation Japan Society Media fellow in Tokyo, where she was charged with interviewing yakuza, police detectives, beat journalists, and academics, taking tea not only with members of the Sumiyoshi-kai crime syndicate but also the man cloning the woolly mammoth. Eaton has also traveled the South of France with high-end call girls. Walked the tequila-bottle-scattered cemeteries of Juárez/Culiacán and also: Cairo’s most tumultuous traffic island, Tahrir Square. Her magazine stories are fables of power and its attainment, her subjects as varied as studio heads Harvey and Bob Weinstein (interviewed multiply, pre- and post-scandal; parts I, II and III linked here), Anthony Weiner, Katie Couric, Ivana and Ivanka Trump (interviewed Donald, too), Karl Lagerfeld, Ralph Lauren, Valentino, Mick Jagger’s suicided girlfriend L’Wren Scott, Sony’s Tommy Mottola, Nicole Richie, Gwen Stefani, mafia defense attorney Gerry Shargel, screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, shock fashion photographer Terry Richardson, et al.

[ U.S. Senate Candidate K.T. McFarland had recovered memories of abuse and in dramatic handwritten letters cut off both parents and a brother dying of AIDS. “Unanswered: Where did Eaton get the letters, [and] will Ed Rollins keep talking to the press (or at least to Eaton)?”] —ABC NEWS’S THE NOTE

“ES PRECISAMENTE EL REPORTAJE DE PHOEBE EATON QUIEN SE ADENTRA EN ESE MUNDO DE LOS PERSONAJES QUE LINDAN EN LA LEYENDA DEL NARCOTRÁFICO.”

— MEXICO'S INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM AWARD (2021)

Iroquois land notice inside the Akwesasne reservation straddling the New York and Canada border. — [**CLICK PIC FOR AKWESASNE MOHAWK TERRITORY PHOTO PORTFOLIO** ***(IMAGE © PHOEBE EATON 2024)***]

Cigarfellas in Bronx Little Italy, New York City. — [CIGARS, ARTHUR AVENUE *(IMAGE © PHOEBE EATON 2024)*]

[ Eaton has appeared on Fox’s Good Day New York, Dateline NBC, Entertainment Tonight, Court TV/truTV’s Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice, NY1, The Recount network’s News Items with John Ellis podcast. Fox Nation’s The Killer Interview with Piers Morgan, et al. Her long-form pieces have been translated into several languages.
Her (yet to be properly utilized) substack is: HERE BE DRAGONS.]

Eaton has traveled extensively (Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, Israel/the West Bank, pre-détente Cuba, Morocco, Dubai, Russia, India, Nepal, Thailand, Hungary, Tokyo, Kobe, Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Kenya, Sicily, Malta, Mexico, et al.). She has experience reporting everywhere from Indian reservations on Native American issues (a branch of the family is Northern Cheyenne) to the Middle and Far East, Africa, and Mexico (Guerrero state/Ciudad Juárez, Tijuana, Guadalajara, Sinaloa, and Mexico City, where her family lived).

Phoebe Eaton grew up in New York and in the Republic of Ireland but has lived, too, in Japan (Tokyo) and coastal (Muslim) Kenya in addition to London, Rome, Paris, and Istanbul.