Blood and Milk

An Irons in the Fire Project

October 10, 2025 @ 6:00pm
Theatre Row, Studio Theatre

By Nikki Massoud
Directed by Sivan Battat

Synopsis

A young nanny gets an unexpected diagnosis that forces her to weigh her desire to become a parent against her health, her lack of money, and the unhappiness she witnesses among the parents who employ her. As she struggles with the decision, violent protests erupt in her parents' home country and she begins to receive a series of supernatural visitations....

Playwright

NIKKI MASSOUD (she/her)is an Iranian-Canadian-American writer and performer based in New York City. She is a 2050 Artistic Fellow at New York Theater Workshop and a commissioned playwright with Atlantic Theater Company, Noor Theater, and The Acting Company. Her work has been developed through Ground Floor/Berkeley Rep, Bard at the Gate, Atlantic Theater Company, Less Than Rent Theater, The Lark, The Coop, CUNY, and a City Artist Corps Grant. Her television work as a performer includes roles on Succession (HBO), Love Life (HBO Max), and Mozart in the Jungle (Amazon.) Her New York stage credits include multiple plays/musicals written by the intrepid kids of the 52nd Street Project, Sanaz Toossi's Wish You Were Here at Playwrights Horizons, and Othello at New York Theatre Workshop, directed by Sam Gold. Nikki has also performed at regional theaters all over the country, including the Goodman Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, South Coast Rep, Berkeley Rep, and Huntington Theatre Company. Nikki is the Odyssey Award-winning narrator of over 70 audiobooks, currently available on Audible. She is a graduate of the Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Program, Georgetown University and BADA. “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi.”

Director

SIVAN BATTAT (she/they) is a theatre director, producer & organizer based in New York City. Sivan’s work is across genres - in the theatre, in community, in ritual celebration, and beyond & seeks to make deeply individual stories into universal ones, helping us understand how our liberation is, and will always be, collectively bound.

Sivan is the Director of New Work Development at Noor Theatre Company, an Obie-winning company dedicated to supporting, developing and producing the work of theatre artists of Middle Eastern descent.

Sivan has developed new works and reimagined classics with companies including Playwrights Horizons, The Old Globe, Roundabout, NYTW, the Atlantic, Ars Nova, National Queer Theatre, New Georges, Goodman, Victory Gardens, New York Stage & Film, MCC and more.

Poster Sketch by Sean Devare