Nurit Chinn

Nurit Chinn is a playwright from London. Her plays have been developed or presented at The Bushwick Starr, Alliance Theatre, CUNY Segal Center, Center for New Jewish Culture, and others. She is a 2024/5 New Jewish Culture Fellow and an alum of the Royal Court Theatre’s Writers’ Group. Her plays have been finalists for the Princess Grace Award, the Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, the Alliance/Kendeda Award, and shortlisted for the Women’s Prize in Playwriting. Nurit has been commissioned by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and Centro Primo Levi, where she was also the Playwright-In-Residence. Nurit is the Co-Director of Exponential Festival 2026. She has also taught undergraduate playwriting at Brooklyn College. BA: Yale University. MFA: Brooklyn College, Playwriting. NPX

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Theatre (U.K): Ella Radley, Alan Brodie Representation

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News

🐦 Tickets on sale for Godbird at The Brick as part of Exponential Fest! Jan 21-24. Link here!

⭐ Reading of This Big Cell at The Bushwick Starr as part of the 2025 Starr Reading Series. Dec 12. RSVP here!

Works-in-process reading of Internee Number 6 at the Segal Theatre Center. Nov 17. Free. RSVP here!

♡ I LOVE STRANGERS was named a finalist for the 2025 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting & 2025 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship.

Godbird won the 2025 Concord Theatricals Off Off Broadway Festival. Info here.

We announced our Expo 2026 season!

Did a workshop of Internee Number 6 at Centro Primo Levi. Info here.

Named Co-Director of Exponential Festival 2026. Wahoo! Announcement here.

Named New Jewish Culture Fellow 2024-2025.

Plays

I LOVE STRANGERS

In simultaneous stories, six Jews reckon with their contradictory impulses to be together and to be apart. A play about family, exclusion, nationalism.

Finalist, Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship. 2025.
Finalist, Princess Grace Award/Fellowship at New Dramatists. 2025.
Shortlist, The Women’s Prize in Playwriting. 2025.
Reading, Alliance Theatre, Kendeda Festival, dir. Avital Shira. 2025.

Reading, New Play Lab, Brooklyn College MFA, Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theatre, dir Katy Early. 2023.
Finalist, Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Award. 2024-2025.

Godbird

Deb’s up early and can’t sleep. Lurking in the shrub: a Birdman, with a bird-like view of things. A play about being seen.

Upcoming: Production at The Brick as part of Exponential Festival. 2026.
Winner, Concord Theatricals Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival. 2025.
Weasel Festival, BAM Fisher, dir. Kedian Keohan. 2024.

BOAZ.

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

Reading, Center for New Jewish Culture, dir. Tara Elliott. 2025.
Reading, FourPlaysAnd, dir. Tara Elliott. 2025.
Semi-finalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. 2025.

This Big Cell

There’s a whistle everyone hears all the time. Dee and her daughter Lila sit in a diner, waiting to order. Outside, a waitress and a cook share an herbal cigarette. Somewhere else, four soldiers sweep through a partially destroyed hospital. This Big Cell explores how war ripples through our relationships, our bodies, and our dreams.

Starr Reading Series, Bushwick Starr. 2025.
Finalist, Come to the Table Residency, SPACE on Ryder Farm. 2024.

Internee Number 6

In development. An adaptation of Internee Number 6 by Maria Eisenstein, a memoir about the fascist internment of Jewish women in Italy during the Holocaust.