| Full given name: | Kristine Nielsen |
| Hometown: | Bethesda, MD |
| Zodiac sign: | Gemini |
| Audition song/monologue: | "Zip" from Pal Joey/"Southern Comfort" from Terrence McNally's Whiskey |
| Special skills: | Cooking and eating |
| First Broadway show ever saw: | Actual in NY B'way show was Chicago, but saw Hair at the National in D.C. |
| If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be? | A Streetcar Named Desire, but any of the original Marx Brothers' shows. My dad had the time of his life as a young naval officer experiencing one of their events and I've always been envious. |
| Favorite show tune: | "You'll Never Walk Alone" from Carousel with "This Nearly Was Mine" from South Pacific a very close second. |
| MAC or PC? | PC |
| Most played song on your iPod: | "Beautiful Day" by U2 |
| One CD you couldn't live without: | Any and all Bruce Springsteen |
| Last book you read: | "No Country for Old Men" |
| Must-see TV show: | "In Treatment," but "Damages" will be back! |
| Last good movie you saw: | "There Will Be Blood" |
| Favorite board/card game: | I hate card games and that's a main feature of what I have to do in Les Liaisons! HELP!!!!!!! |
| Performer you would drop everything to go see: | Maggie Smith |
| Pop culture guilty pleasure: | "Project Runway" and/or "The Chelsea Handler Show" |
| First stage kiss: | I'm sure there was an errant shepherd in an early Christmas pageant, but Michael Esper in Crazy Mary last summer left a lasting impression. |
| Favorite post-show meal: | Late-nite popcorn, always at home. |
| Worst flubbed line/missed cue/onstage mishap: | At Northwestern, just grasping all the possibilities and truthfulness of a school production - I played Suzie in Hot L Baltimore and insisted on heavy, realistically packed suitcases for my departure from the hotel. A cab driver was supposed to enter and help scoot me off the stage for a great final exit. Of course, the black box theatre door got locked by mistake, and the young actor playing the cab driver could not make his entrance. So I started to leave, dragging one suitcase off at a time. Then would have to come back on and retrieve another, improvising horrible Lanford Wilson like lines like "O.K. now I'm really going," or "This time I mean it!" or "I don't need this bag"..... (an actor's nightmare in slo-mo) |
| Who have you played on "Law & Order"? Which edition? | I've been a Clipboard character on the original, "Criminal Intent," and "Conviction." |
| Cats or dogs? | Dogs |
| Favorite cereal: | McCann's Irish oatmeal |
| Who would play you in the movie? | I wish Maureen Stapleton was still around...... |
| Worst job you ever had: | Information operator on Cape Cod when the lines went out in Boston and all 411 calls were sent to us and everyone who seemed to call was Italian with a very complicated name or Chinese with a frighteningly similar name with subtle tonal differences. |
