Biography of Anne Nelson

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.