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Anne Nelson
Anne Nelson has worked for many years in the fields of journalism, international affairs, and human rights. In 2001 she wrote her first play, "The Guys," based on her experiences following the September 11th attacks. Since then it has been produced in 48 states and ten foreign countries, and was made into a feature film starring Sigourney Weaver and Anthony LaPaglia. The audible.com recording starred Bill Irwin and Swoosie Kurtz and won the 2003 Audie Best Play of the Year Award. Her play SAVAGES, written at New Harmony, was a finalist for the Humana Festival and the Playwrights First Award. It was produced off-Broadway in 2006 and was published by Dramatist Play Service. Her following New Harmony play, DEPENDENCE DAY, was workshopped in Indianapolis in 2007 and won Nashville's Naked Stages competition for a workshop in winter 2009. Her most recent short play, PETRA, debuted at the Cherry Lane Theater and was a finalist in the 2007 Humana competition. Nelson won a 2005 Guggenheim fellowship for her forthcoming non-fiction book on a German resistance movement in Berlin in the 1930s, to be published by Random House in February 2009. Nelson graduated from Yale. She is currently adjunct associate professor at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, a frequent lecturer for the One Day University, and an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She lives in New York with her husband, British author George Black, and their two teenagers, David and Julia.
THE NEW HARMONY PROJECT
SERVING WRITERS. CELEBRATING THE HUMAN SPIRIT.