Nurit Chinn is a playwright from London, currently based in New York. Her plays include: I LOVE STRANGERS (Reading at Alliance Theatre, Atlanta; Brooklyn College New Play Lab Reading at Lincoln Center; Finalist, 2025 Alliance/Kendeda Competition; Semifinalist, Eugene O’Neill NPC 2024), GODBIRD (BAM Fisher, Weasel Festival 2024, directed by Kedian Keohan), BEST OF THREE (Etcetera Theatre, Camden Fringe Festival) and BOAZ, an adaptation of Nicole Krauss’s short story, “I Am Asleep But My Heart is Awake.” 

 

Nurit is a 2024/5 New Jewish Culture Fellow and an alum of the Royal Court Theatre’s Writers’ Group. She is currently the Playwright-in-Residence at Centro Primo Levi in New York, where she is working on an adaptation of Internee Number 6 by Maria Eisenstein. Her shorter works have been staged at VAULT Festival and Dixon Place.

Before moving to Brooklyn, Nurit worked as a journalist, writing and editing for the newspaper Haaretz and contributing to the British Journal of Photography. Her creative nonfiction has been published in the Washington Square Review and Off Assignment. In addition, Nurit teaches playwriting at Brooklyn College and curates theatre at The Exponential Festival and The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, the Graduate Center, CUNY. BA: Yale University; MFA: Brooklyn College.