Phoebe Eaton

Phoebe Eaton is a producer-writer and award-winning journalist-playwright known for Dateline NBC (2008). For the NY Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, the Guardian, et al., she has covered business, crime, politics, and style. Known for her investigative journalism, she won a 2020 Front Page Award for her three-part investigative series on studio heads Harvey and Bob Weinstein, the most-read story in the history of Air Mail weekly and featuring haunting interviews with the both of them. An organized-crime expert, she won a 2017 New York Press Club Award for cartel reporting 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. Her plays have been developed at Naked Angels, the Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit, the Dramatists Guild, and the Kennedy Center. She grew up in the Republic of Ireland and in New York.