Nina Kissinger

Nina Kissinger (she/her) is a playwright based in Brooklyn. Her work has been developed/produced by 59E59, MOXIE Theatre, New Light Theater Project, Pendragon Theatre, B Street Theatre, Soho Playhouse, Valdez Theatre Conference, The Tank, Barons Court Theatre (Kibo Productions), Paradise Factory Theatre (RE/VENUE NYC), T. Schreiber Studio & Theatre, Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts, BRAVO Theatre, Over Our Head Players, South Street Players, Ghostlight Theatre Ensemble, National High School Institute, Vertigo Productions, and Northwestern University, and named a Semi-Finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, New Dramatists Princess Grace Fellowship, Ashland New Plays Festival, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Premiere Play Festival, and Morgan-Wixson Theatre New...

Nina Kissinger (she/her) is a playwright based in Brooklyn. Her work has been developed/produced by 59E59, MOXIE Theatre, New Light Theater Project, Pendragon Theatre, B Street Theatre, Soho Playhouse, Valdez Theatre Conference, The Tank, Barons Court Theatre (Kibo Productions), Paradise Factory Theatre (RE/VENUE NYC), T. Schreiber Studio & Theatre, Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts, BRAVO Theatre, Over Our Head Players, South Street Players, Ghostlight Theatre Ensemble, National High School Institute, Vertigo Productions, and Northwestern University, and named a Semi-Finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, New Dramatists Princess Grace Fellowship, Ashland New Plays Festival, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Premiere Play Festival, and Morgan-Wixson Theatre New Works Festival. She is a member of the BMI Advanced Bookwriting Workshop, the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals 2025 Cohort, and the Winner of the 2025 Stanley Drama Award. Nina is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she studied playwriting under Laura Schellhardt and Julie Marie Myatt.

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Scripts

This is Government

by Nina Kissinger

8
Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
political

After a bomb threat places all congressional buildings on lockdown, three summer interns find themselves stuck in the one place no one has ever wanted to work overtime: the U.S. government. As the crisis unfolds and their snack supply runs out, they question what power, if any, they have in this increasingly unstable system. Nina Kissinger's dark comedy, THIS IS GOVERNMENT, grapples with the real-time...

After a bomb threat places all congressional buildings on lockdown, three summer interns find themselves stuck in the one place no one has ever wanted to work overtime: the U.S. government. As the crisis unfolds and their snack supply runs out, they question what power, if any, they have in this increasingly unstable system. Nina Kissinger's dark comedy, THIS IS GOVERNMENT, grapples with the real-time consequences of political disarray.

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On Tuesdays We Fight

by Nina Kissinger

Cast Size
6
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
political

When a bipartisan college debate club must decide whether to help bring a controversial speaker to campus, six student board members find themselves in a volatile clash of the personal and political. As their vote fractures relationships and triggers consequences they can't outrun, they are forced to question whether meaningful discourse is even possible anymore. Nina Kissinger's new dark comedy, ON TUESDAYS WE...

When a bipartisan college debate club must decide whether to help bring a controversial speaker to campus, six student board members find themselves in a volatile clash of the personal and political. As their vote fractures relationships and triggers consequences they can't outrun, they are forced to question whether meaningful discourse is even possible anymore. Nina Kissinger's new dark comedy, ON TUESDAYS WE FIGHT, unravels the real-time fallout of a polarized generation pushed past its breaking point.

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Sorry We're Open

by Nina Kissinger

Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
farce,
holiday

Oh there’s no place like retail for the holidays! As the staff of a Chicago framing and gift shop counts down the days until Christmas, they find themselves on increasingly thin ice with one another. SORRY WE'RE OPEN by Nina Kissinger investigates what responsibilities we have to the people around us, particularly those that we would not have chosen to work (or spend the holidays) with.

Oh there’s no place like retail for the holidays! As the staff of a Chicago framing and gift shop counts down the days until Christmas, they find themselves on increasingly thin ice with one another. SORRY WE'RE OPEN by Nina Kissinger investigates what responsibilities we have to the people around us, particularly those that we would not have chosen to work (or spend the holidays) with.

I Wasn't Planning on Saying Anything

by Nina Kissinger

1
Cast Size
4—8
Genre
comedy,
drama,
farce

When sisters Min and Kit return home for their middle sibling’s unexpected wedding to their girlfriend of six months, they find themselves struggling to write a toast that no one asked them to give. Nina Kissinger’s heartfelt comedy, I WASN’T PLANNING ON SAYING ANYTHING, wrestles with the ways broken family systems not only inform the choices we make in our own relationships, but also how we judge those made by...

When sisters Min and Kit return home for their middle sibling’s unexpected wedding to their girlfriend of six months, they find themselves struggling to write a toast that no one asked them to give. Nina Kissinger’s heartfelt comedy, I WASN’T PLANNING ON SAYING ANYTHING, wrestles with the ways broken family systems not only inform the choices we make in our own relationships, but also how we judge those made by others.

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The Exit Interview

by Nina Kissinger

1
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy

Shortly after dying Sam finds himself in a void with Lenny, a somewhat competent afterlife employee, for his exit interview. Like many things in Sam’s life, this does not go as planned. THE EXIT INTERVIEW by Nina Kissinger is a dark comedy about what it means to reflect on your life after death and, more frighteningly, for someone else to.

Shortly after dying Sam finds himself in a void with Lenny, a somewhat competent afterlife employee, for his exit interview. Like many things in Sam’s life, this does not go as planned. THE EXIT INTERVIEW by Nina Kissinger is a dark comedy about what it means to reflect on your life after death and, more frighteningly, for someone else to.