Nikki Massoud

Bio: NIKKI MASSOUD is an Iranian-Canadian-American writer and performer based in New York City. Her work has been developed and produced through Bard at the Gate, Atlantic Theater, Less Than Rent Theater, The Lark, The Coop, CUNY, and a City Artist Corps Grant. She holds commissions from Atlantic Theater, The Acting Company, and Noor Theater. Her television work as a performer includes roles on Succession (HBO), Love Life (HBO), and Mozart in the Jungle (Amazon.) Her acting stage credits include Sanaz Toossi's WISH YOU WERE HERE at Playwrights Horizons and OTHELLO at New York Theatre Workshop, directed by Sam Gold. Nikki has also acted regionally all over the country, including at The Old Globe, South Coast Rep, Berkeley Rep, and Huntington Theatre Company. Nikki is also the Audie Award...

Bio: NIKKI MASSOUD is an Iranian-Canadian-American writer and performer based in New York City. Her work has been developed and produced through Bard at the Gate, Atlantic Theater, Less Than Rent Theater, The Lark, The Coop, CUNY, and a City Artist Corps Grant. She holds commissions from Atlantic Theater, The Acting Company, and Noor Theater. Her television work as a performer includes roles on Succession (HBO), Love Life (HBO), and Mozart in the Jungle (Amazon.) Her acting stage credits include Sanaz Toossi's WISH YOU WERE HERE at Playwrights Horizons and OTHELLO at New York Theatre Workshop, directed by Sam Gold. Nikki has also acted regionally all over the country, including at The Old Globe, South Coast Rep, Berkeley Rep, and Huntington Theatre Company. Nikki is also the Audie Award-winning narrator of over 50 audiobooks, currently available on Audible. She is a graduate of the Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Program, Georgetown University and BADA. “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi.”

Scripts

He Who Has 10,000 Horses

by Nikki Massoud

Synopsis

A newly divorced, newly-arrived billionaire is drawn into the tantalizing world of reverse-aging technology by a charismatic younger man. As his fight against aging intensifies, he grows increasingly isolated from his astute, sensitive ex-wife and his brilliant teenage daughter, who struggles with a life-threatening eating disorder. Will he invest in saving the world---and his family---or sacrifice everything in...

A newly divorced, newly-arrived billionaire is drawn into the tantalizing world of reverse-aging technology by a charismatic younger man. As his fight against aging intensifies, he grows increasingly isolated from his astute, sensitive ex-wife and his brilliant teenage daughter, who struggles with a life-threatening eating disorder. Will he invest in saving the world---and his family---or sacrifice everything in his pursuit of immortality? A Science Fiction thriller inspired by Ferdowsi's 11th century Book of Kings....

Great Expectations

by Nikki Massoud

Synopsis

Pip, a young working class orphan raised by his abusive sister and her kind Blacksmith husband, is summoned to entertain a reclusive heiress and her stunningly beautiful adopted daughter. Shortly after, he receives a life-changing fortune from a Mystery Patron, with the mandate that he "learn to be a gentleman." Who is Pip's mystery benefactor? And can (or should) Pip reinvent himself?

Pip, a young working class orphan raised by his abusive sister and her kind Blacksmith husband, is summoned to entertain a reclusive heiress and her stunningly beautiful adopted daughter. Shortly after, he receives a life-changing fortune from a Mystery Patron, with the mandate that he "learn to be a gentleman." Who is Pip's mystery benefactor? And can (or should) Pip reinvent himself?

Blood+Milk, or Motherland

by Nikki Massoud

Synopsis

At the height of the Mahsa Amini protests, a very young Iranian-American artist/nanny wrestles with a diagnosis that accelerates her decision about whether to become a parent, as she watches the parenting struggles of her employers and receives magical visions and visitations from Lilith, Adam's powerful, pre-Biblical first wife. An exploration of guilt, immigration, bloodlines, freedom, and the declining birth...

At the height of the Mahsa Amini protests, a very young Iranian-American artist/nanny wrestles with a diagnosis that accelerates her decision about whether to become a parent, as she watches the parenting struggles of her employers and receives magical visions and visitations from Lilith, Adam's powerful, pre-Biblical first wife. An exploration of guilt, immigration, bloodlines, freedom, and the declining birth rate in America....

CUT-A Blasphemy

by Nikki Massoud

Synopsis

A riveting, darkly comic encounter between the legendary Samson and the Philistine Delilah, who beguiles him with her wit, her fury as an outsider and her skills at bondage. How deeply embedded is our sense of insider privilege and how does it blind us?

A riveting, darkly comic encounter between the legendary Samson and the Philistine Delilah, who beguiles him with her wit, her fury as an outsider and her skills at bondage. How deeply embedded is our sense of insider privilege and how does it blind us?