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Anne Nelson

ANNE NELSON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Anne Nelson is an acclaimed playwright, author and lecturer. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including a 2005-06 Guggenheim Fellowship and a New Harmony Dramatists Fellowship. Her books and articles have been published widely and her play the Guys, one of the first major plays to address the September 11th attacks, has been published and staged throughout the world over the past four years, starring actors such as Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Swoosie Kurtz, Helen Hunt, Dan Lauria, and Bill Irwin. It premiered at the Flea Theater on White Street not far from the site of the World Trade Center. Anne adapted the play for a film version, directed by Jim Simpson, starring Sigourney Weaver and anthony LaPaglia, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, September 11, 2002, and had its New York premiere at the New Directors series at Lincoln Center in April 2003. In addition to her theatrical pursuits, she was an award-winning reporter on the conflicts in Central America and the Philippines. As a war correspondent in El Salvador and Guatemala from 1980 to 1983, her reports and combat photography appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and in many other publications.

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         Anglo-American Alliance, The         Guys, The
Anglo-American Alliance, The

Synopsis:
one-act screwball comedy about marriage and music

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1st Produced:
Orlando/Ucf Shakespeare Festival     2005

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Guys, The

Synopsis:
Paralyzed by grief and unable to put his thoughts into words, Nick, a fire captain, seeks out the help of a writer to compose eulogies for the colleagues and friends he lost in the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001. As Joan, an editor by trade, draws Nick out about "the guys," powerful profiles emerge, revealing vivid personalities and the substance and meaning that lie beneath the surface of seemingly unremarkable people. And Nick and Joan, two people who under normal circumstances never would have met, jump the well-defined tracks of their own lives, and so learn about themselves, about life, and about the healing power of human connection, through talking about the guys

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1st Produced:
Flea Theatre, NY     2002

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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