Broadway credits include Present Laughter, You Can't Take It With You, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony Award nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Spring Awakening, The Green Bird, Jackie, and The Iceman Cometh (1986). Off-Broadway credits include A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur; Taylor Mac's Hir; How I Spent Last Summer; Omnium Gatherum; Our Leading Lady; The Killer; Dog Opera (Obie Award); and Christopher Durang'fs Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them; Miss Witherspoon; and Betty's Summer Vacation (Obie). Nielsen has worked regionally all over the country, including at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, Goodman Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Folger Theatre (D.C.), and most recently at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton in Durang's Turning Off the Morning News. Television: "Happyish," "Elementary," "Political Animals," NBC's "The Sound of Music Live," Amazon's "Z: The Beginning of Everything." Film: Trouble, Morning Glory, The Savages, Small Time Crooks. Nielsen is a graduate of Northwestern University and the Yale School of Drama.
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Kristine Nielsen, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Kristine Nielsen, Hir
Kristine Nielsen
Kristine Nielsen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Kristine Nielsen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Kristine Nielsen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Kristine Nielsen, Why Torture is Wrong
Kristine Nielsen, the People Who Love Them
Kristine Nielsen, Betty's Summer Vacation
Kristine Nielsen, Dog Opera
The Dramatists Guild previously announced that playwright Christopher Durang will receive a Lifetime Achievement award at this year’s ceremony. He will be joined by two additional recipients, George C. Wolfe and Emily Mann.
The online ticket lottery for Lincoln Center Theater’s staged reading of Christopher Durang’s Tony Award-winning play VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE is now open. Learn how to purchase tickets.
On May 17th BAM will present IRONWEED: An Evening of Art & Humanity, based on William Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.
Join Stephen Moyer, Kristine Nielsen, Santino Fontana, Miriam Silverman, Jacob Ming-Trent, and more as they kick off Red Bull Theater’s Anniversary Festival this Monday.
Dorset Theatre Festival has announced full casting for The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh and Sidekicked by Kim Powers in their upcoming 2024 Main Stage season, scheduled from June 21 through September 7, 2024 at the Dorset Playhouse.
Stephen Moyer from True Blood and Tony Award winner Miriam Silverman star in MACBETH for Red Bull Theater's 20th Anniversary Festival. Directed by Nathan Winkelstein, the play features a strong ensemble cast.
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This morning, nominees for the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® honoring outstanding individual, cast and ensemble performances for the past year were announced. Check out the full list of nominations, which include Danielle Brooks, Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Hannah Waddingham, the cast of The Gilded Age, and more.
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The National Theatre has released new production images for Infinite Life, a co-production with the National Theatre and Atlantic Theater Company. Check out the photos here!
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Kristine Nielsen has appeared on Broadway in 12 shows.
Kristine Nielsen has not appeared in the West End.
Kristine Nielsen has been nominated for several prestigious awards throughout her career. These include Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play at the Tony Awards for "Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus," Distinguished Performance Award at the Drama League Awards for "Hir" and "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," "Why Torture is Wrong," "the People Who Love Them," and "Betty's Summer Vacation," Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play at the Tony Awards for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," and a Performance award at the Obie Awards for "Dog Opera." Additionally, she was honored as a Legend of Off Broadway.
Kristine Nielsen has won the Legend of Off Broadway Honoree award for her performance in "Dog Opera" at the Obie Awards.
Kristine Nielsen's next show will be Infinite Life which opens on 9/12/2023 on Off-Broadway.
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