Nina Kissinger

Nina Kissinger (she/her) is a playwright based in Brooklyn. Her work has been developed/produced by the 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, Over Our Head Players, South Street Players, Ghostlight Theatre Ensemble, National High School Institute, Vertigo Productions, and Northwestern University, and recognized by the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Ashland New Plays Festival, and Morgan-Wixson Theatre New Works Festival. She is a member of the 2024-2025 BMI Bookwriting Workshop, 2024-2025 Purple Light Productions Artist Palette Cohort, and a graduate of Northwestern University, where she studied...

Nina Kissinger (she/her) is a playwright based in Brooklyn. Her work has been developed/produced by the 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, Over Our Head Players, South Street Players, Ghostlight Theatre Ensemble, National High School Institute, Vertigo Productions, and Northwestern University, and recognized by the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Ashland New Plays Festival, and Morgan-Wixson Theatre New Works Festival. She is a member of the 2024-2025 BMI Bookwriting Workshop, 2024-2025 Purple Light Productions Artist Palette Cohort, and 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

6
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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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.

I Wasn't Planning on Saying Anything

by Nina Kissinger

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 Shop Play

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. THE SHOP PLAY 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. THE SHOP PLAY 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.