Anne Nelson
Anne Nelson is an award-winning author and playwright. Her 2001 play THE GUYS has been produced in all 50 states and at least 15 countries, often as a benefit for local fire companies and burn centers... Read more
Anne Nelson is an award-winning author and playwright. Her 2001 play THE GUYS has been produced in all 50 states and at least 15 countries, often as a benefit for local fire companies and burn centers. It was published by Random House and Dramatists Play Service. The audible.com version, starring Swoosie Kurtz and Bill Irwin, won the 2003 Audie Award for best recorded play. SAVAGES, Nelson's anti-war play, opened Off-Broadway in 2006 and was a finalist in the Humana Festival. The New Yorker called it "a work of lacerating beauty." Nelson won a Guggenheim Fellowship towards her research for RED ORCHESTRA, the story of an anti-Nazi resistance circle in Berlin. It was published by Random House in 2009 and named an Editors Choice by the New York Times. Nelson recently completed a screenplay version and is currently at work on a sequel set in wartime Poland. Nelson is a graduate of Yale University and a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. She teaches at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.