Kristine Nielsen's 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 GreenBird, Jackie, and The Iceman Cometh (1986). Off-Broadway credits include A Lovely Sundayfor 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’s 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 theMorning 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 TimeCrooks. Nielsen is a graduate of Northwestern University and the Yale School of Drama.
