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
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 awards throughout her career, including 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," Distinguished Performance Award at the Drama League Awards for "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," Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play at the Tony Awards for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "Why Torture is Wrong," Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "the People Who Love Them," Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "Betty's Summer Vacation," and a Performance award at the Obie Awards for "Dog Opera." Additionally, she was honored as a Legend of Off Broadway.
Kristine Nielsen has been honored with the Legend of Off Broadway Honoree award for her performance in "Dog Opera" at the Obie Awards.
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