Biographie
Phoebe Eaton is a multi-award-winning American journalist, playwright, and screenwriter. For the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, Air Mail, the Guardian et al., she has covered business, crime, politics, and style. An organized-crime expert, she received Mexico's 2021 National Journalism Award for cartel reporting in Sinaloa state and a 2017 New York Press Club Award for the same in Guerrero state, Mexico. Traveling to Sinaloa in December, 2018, she exclusively interviewed the family of Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán during his New York trial at his hometown hideout deep in the Sierra Madre. After her Kindle Single series "In the Thrall of the Mountain King" was excerpted in the New York Post, it was the No. 1 "Organized Crime" Kindle Single its first week out, No. 7 Amazon Hot New Releases/Organized Crime. She has appeared on many documentaries, news shows, and podcasts, the venues including Dateline NBC, Entertainment Tonight, Fox's Good Day New York, Court TV/TruTV, Fox Nation's The Killer Interview with Piers Morgan, and NY1. She won three 2021-22 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards for investigative reporting/hard news and a 2020 Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Award for her three-part investigative series on studio heads Harvey and Bob Weinstein, still the most read story in the history of Air Mail weekly and featuring haunting interviews with the both of them. Her investigations of 2025's Manhattan retrial of Harvey Weinstein for The Hollywood Reporter won two further Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards.
As a screenwriter, she has been a 2022 Trackingb TV pilot finalist-winner, also shortlisted for the 2021 American Zoetrope Screenplay Award and Harvardwood's Writers Award in addition to being a past winner of the Scriptapalooza TV Writing Award. Her plays have been developed at Naked Angels, the Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit, the Dramatists Guild, and the Kennedy Center. Eaton grew up in the Republic of Ireland and in New York. After graduating from the University of Chicago, she received a United States-Japan Foundation media fellowship to interview Tokyo yakuza and police detectives that launched her career as a journalist-storyteller.
