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THIS IS GOVERNMENT - Full Length (2W, 1M, 1NB)
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 dark comedy, THIS IS GOVERNMENT, grapples with the real-time consequences of political disarray.
THE EXIT INTERVIEW - 10 Minute (3 ANY)
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.
I WASN’T PLANNING ON SAYING ANYTHING - Full Length (2W, 3 ANY)
When sisters Min and Kit return home for their middle sibling’s unexpected wedding, they find themselves struggling to write a toast that no one asked them to give. Nina Kissinger’s heartfelt dramedy I WASN’T PLANNING ON SAYING ANYTHING wrestles with the ways broken family systems not only inform the choices we make in our own lives, but also how we judge those made by our siblings, for better or worse.
SORRY WE’RE OPEN - Full Length (4W, 2M)
Oh there’s no place like retail for the holidays! As the staff of a Chicago framing and gift shop counts down the days until Christmas, they find themselves on increasingly thin ice with one another. Nina Kissinger’s new comedy SORRY WE’RE OPEN investigates what responsibilities we have to the people around us, particularly those that we would not have chosen to work (or spend the holidays) with.
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ON TUESDAYS WE FIGHT - Full Length (3W, 3M)
When a bipartisan college debate club must decide whether to help bring a controversial speaker to campus, six student board members are thrust into a volatile clash of the personal and political. As their vote fractures relationships and triggers consequences they can't outrun, they are forced to question whether meaningful discourse is even possible anymore. Nina Kissinger's new dark comedy, ON TUESDAYS WE FIGHT, unravels the real-time fallout of a polarized generation pushed past its breaking point.