Nurit Chinn

Nurit Chinn is a playwright and screenwriter from London, currently based in Brooklyn. Her plays have been developed at The Bushwick Starr, Alliance Theatre, CUNY Segal Center, Centro Primo Levi, and supported by the Brooklyn Arts Council. Her play Godbird was produced at The Brick as part of the 2026 Exponential Festival, and will be published by Concord Theatricals. She is currently developing an original TV project with Amazon.

Nurit is a first year fellow in the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard. She is an alum of the New Jewish Culture Fellowship, the Neighborhood’s Working Artist Group, and 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 U.K.’s Women’s Prize in Playwriting. Nurit won the Concord Theatricals OOB Festival in 2025.

Nurit is the Co-Director of The Exponential Festival. She has taught undergraduate playwriting at Brooklyn College. BA: Yale University. MFA: Brooklyn College, Playwriting. NPX

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

Management: Alain Carles, Range Media Partners

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News

🎓 I will be a fellow in the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard in the fall!

🐣 Godbird will be published by Concord Theatricals! More info here.

Expo 2027 season announced!

🐦 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. More info here.

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

Finalist, Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship. 2025 + 2026.
Finalist, Princess Grace Award/Fellowship at New Dramatists. 2025 + 2026.
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.

Publication with Concord Theatricals.
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.
Finalist, Austin Film Festival Stage Play Competition. 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.

Commissioned by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and Centro Primo Levi.
Works-in-Process reading at the Segal Center. Directed by Dara Malina. 2025.