A TALENTED WRITER
— GLORIA STEINEM in New York Magazine

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.


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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.



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 PeriodismoMexico’s International Journalism Awardfrom 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.)


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)

[ 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 thoroughly utilized) substack is: HERE BE DRAGONS.]

Eaton has traveled extensively (Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, Israel/the West Bank, pre-détente Cuba, Argentina, 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.

Affiliations.

Phoebe Eaton is a member of PEN. Also: Women in Film. Society of Business Editors and Writers. Association of Foreign Press Correspondents. Foreign Press Association. Frontline Freelance Register. National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

Education.

University of Chicago (additional degree work at Harvard University and Columbia University), B.A. English Literature.

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EATON DRAGS PEOPLE TO THE EDGE AND MAKES THEM LOOK OVER.
— PASQUINO

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