Nurit Chinn

Nurit Chinn is a playwright and producer from London, currently based in Brooklyn. Her plays have been developed or presented at Alliance Theatre, the Center for New Jewish Culture, BAM Fisher, VAULT Festival, Dixon Place, and others. Her play Godbird will be presented at The Brick in January as part of Exponential Festival 2026.

She is a 2024/5 New Jewish Culture Fellow, winner of the 2025 Conchord Theatricals OOB festival, and an alum of the Royal Court Theatre’s Writers’ Group. Her plays have been finalists for the Princess Grace Award/Fellowship at New Dramatists, the Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, and the Alliance/Kendeda Award.

Nurit is currently under commission by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and Centro Primo Levi, where she is also the Playwright-In-Residence. She...

Nurit Chinn is a playwright and producer from London, currently based in Brooklyn. Her plays have been developed or presented at Alliance Theatre, the Center for New Jewish Culture, BAM Fisher, VAULT Festival, Dixon Place, and others. Her play Godbird will be presented at The Brick in January as part of Exponential Festival 2026.

She is a 2024/5 New Jewish Culture Fellow, winner of the 2025 Conchord Theatricals OOB festival, and an alum of the Royal Court Theatre’s Writers’ Group. Her plays have been finalists for the Princess Grace Award/Fellowship at New Dramatists, the Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, and the Alliance/Kendeda Award.

Nurit is currently under commission by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and Centro Primo Levi, where she is also the Playwright-In-Residence. She is also the Co-Director of the Exponential Festival, alongside Bailey Williams. BA: Yale University; MFA: Brooklyn College, Playwriting, under Haruna Lee, Elana Greenfield, Dennis A. Allen II, and Sibyl Kempson. nuritchinn.com

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Scripts

GODBIRD

by Nurit Chinn

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Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
romantic comedy

Deb’s up early and can’t sleep. During off-leash hours in a neighborhood park, she meets Hugo and his pitbull. Also lurking in the shrub: a Birdman, with a bird-like view of things. A play about being seen.

(This one's 15 minutes. Also avail: 35 min version!)

Deb’s up early and can’t sleep. During off-leash hours in a neighborhood park, she meets Hugo and his pitbull. Also lurking in the shrub: a Birdman, with a bird-like view of things. A play about being seen.

(This one's 15 minutes. Also avail: 35 min version!)

I LOVE STRANGERS

by Nurit Chinn

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Cast Size
8
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental

In three simultaneous stories, six Jews reckon with their contradictory impulses to be together and to be apart. Inspired by Adrienne Rich’s poem “Yom Kippur 1984,” I LOVE STRANGERS deals with the multiple and lonely ways of existing as a person and a Jew. A play about family, exclusion, nationalism, I LOVE STRANGERS asks: In our effort to be close to one another, do we end up even more alone?

In three simultaneous stories, six Jews reckon with their contradictory impulses to be together and to be apart. Inspired by Adrienne Rich’s poem “Yom Kippur 1984,” I LOVE STRANGERS deals with the multiple and lonely ways of existing as a person and a Jew. A play about family, exclusion, nationalism, I LOVE STRANGERS asks: In our effort to be close to one another, do we end up even more alone?

BOAZ

by Nurit Chinn

Cast Size
3
Genre
adaptation,
faith-based

A young woman uncovers her late father’s apartment, and with it, his eccentric roommate. Based on a Nicole Krauss short story, BOAZ is about the strange bonds and fixations of grief.

A young woman uncovers her late father’s apartment, and with it, his eccentric roommate. Based on a Nicole Krauss short story, BOAZ is about the strange bonds and fixations of grief.