Nina Kissinger (she/her) is a playwright originally from San Francisco and currently based in Brooklyn.

Her plays include THIS IS GOVERNMENT (2025 Stanley Drama Award Winner, B Street Theatre’s 2024 New Comedies Festival, 2024 Valdez Theatre Conference, Shake Rag Alley’s 2023 Alley Stage Reading Series, 2023 NHSI Theatre Division Reading Series, 2022 Agnes Nixon Playwriting Festival, 2025 ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition Quarterfinalist, 2023 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist, 2023 Ashland New Plays Festival Semi-Finalist, 2023 Morgan-Wixson Theatre New Works Festival Semi-Finalist), THE EXIT INTERVIEW (Soho Playhouse’s 2024 Lighthouse Series, Barons Court Theatre’s 2024 Reboot Festival, T. Schreiber Studio & Theatre’s 2024 Schreiber Shorts Festival, Ghostlight Theatre Ensemble’s 2024 Festival 10, Over Our Head Players’ 2023 Snowdance 10-Minute Comedy Festival, South Street Players’ 13th Annual Tri-State Theatre Festival, Vertigo Productions’ 10-Minute Play Festival), I WASN’T PLANNING ON SAYING ANYTHING (The Tank’s 2024 Limefest Summer Festival, Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts’ 2024 Scherbarth Residency), and SORRY WE’RE OPEN (RE/VENUE NYC 2024 Festival @ The Paradise Factory Theatre).

Nina 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 majored in political science and philosophy, minored in music, and studied playwriting under Laura Schellhardt and Julie Marie Myatt.