Phoebe Eaton is a multi-award-winning journalist and playwright-screenwriter who has appeared on many documentary and news shows including Fox's Good Day New York, Dateline NBC (2008), Entertainment Tonight, truTV (2005), and NY1. For the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, Air Mail, the Guardian, et al. she has covered business, crime, politics, and style. She is also an organized crime expert and won a 2021 International Journalism Award from the Press Club of Mexico for cartel reporting in Sinaloa and a 2017 New York Press Award for the same in Guerrero state, Mexico. After graduating from the University of Chicago, she received a U.S.-Japan Foundation media fellowship to interview Tokyo yakuza and police detectives that launched her career as a reporter.

A member of the Actors Studio Playwright/Directors Unit and the Dramatists Guild, she's also been a finalist-winner for her plays and TV pilots, shortlisted for the American Zoetrope Screenplay Award in 2021 and a finalist in 2023's Harvardwood Screenwriting Competition.