Nina Kissinger

Nina Kissinger

Nina Kissinger is a playwright originally from San Francisco and now based in Chicago. Her short play THE EXIT INTERVIEW was a winner of Vertigo Production’s 2022 10-Minute Play Festival and the Over Our Head Players’ 2023 Snowdance 10-Minute Comedy Festival. Her full-length work, THIS IS GOVERNMENT, was a winner of the 2022 Agnes Nixon Playwriting Festival, the 2023 Alley Stage Reading Series at the Shake Rag...
Nina Kissinger is a playwright originally from San Francisco and now based in Chicago. Her short play THE EXIT INTERVIEW was a winner of Vertigo Production’s 2022 10-Minute Play Festival and the Over Our Head Players’ 2023 Snowdance 10-Minute Comedy Festival. Her full-length work, THIS IS GOVERNMENT, was a winner of the 2022 Agnes Nixon Playwriting Festival, the 2023 Alley Stage Reading Series at the Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts, and a Semi-Finalist for the 2023 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she studied playwriting under Laura Schellhardt and Julie Marie Myatt.

Plays

  • This is Government by Nina Kissinger
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: comedy, political + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, political
    Keyword: comedy, political, American government, College-aged roles, a role for an older actress, contains LGBTQ characters
    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 new 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 new dark comedy, THIS IS GOVERNMENT, grapples with the real-time consequences of political disarray.
  • The Exit Interview by Nina Kissinger
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: 10 minute comedy, afterlife + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: 10 minute comedy, afterlife, 3 person cast, any genders
    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.