Mark Nelson (actor)

Mark Nelson is an American actor, director and teacher. He appeared on Broadway in Angels in America,The Invention of Love,[1] After the Fall and Three Sisters at Roundabout Theatre Company, and the original casts of A Few Good Men, Rumors, Biloxi Blues and Amadeus. For his performance as Einstein in Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile[2] he received the Obie, Drama League, Carbonell and San Francisco Critics Awards. He played Herr Schultz in the 2016 national tour of "Cabaret," and acted off-Broadway in My Name is Asher Lev[3] for which he received a Lortel nomination. Other roles include Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at The Shakespeare Theater,[4] Uncle Vanya (in Bartlett Sher's production at the Intiman Theatre), Matt in Talley's Folly (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Bluntschli in Arms and the Man (Long Wharf Theatre) and two solo pieces: I Am My Own Wife[5] by Doug Wright (Carbonell Award) and Underneath the Lintel[6] by Glen Berger (Connecticut Critics Award). His TV work includes roles on "Unforgettable", “Law & Order” and “Spin City.” He teaches acting at Princeton University[7] and at New York City's HB Studio.[8] He has directed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Drama Dept.,[9] McCarter Theatre, George Street Playhouse,[10] and Chautauqua Theatre Company, and is a frequent guest director at the Juilliard School. He graduated from Princeton and then studied acting with Uta Hagen. In 2013 he received a Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship.[11]

Nelson is a faculty member at HB Studio. [12]

Filmography
Film and Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
1980Friday the 13thNed RubensteinFeature film
1981The ChosenFighting StudentFeature film
1985Remington SteeleLinoEpisode: "Gourmet Steele"
1989Bloodhounds of BroadwaySam the SkateFeature film
1991ThirtysomethingLeonard KatzEpisode: "Melissa and Men"
1993The Seventh CoinLibrarianFeature film
1996Law & OrderSteinEpisode: "Custody"
1996The First Wives ClubEric LoestFeature film
1997Liberty! The American RevolutionLoyalistEpisode: "Are We to Be a Nation? (1783-1788)"
1998Suddenly SusanPaulEpisode: "Not in This Life"
1998–2000Spin CityTherapistRecurring role (4 episodes)
1999Law & Order: Special Victims UnitRobert StevensEpisode: "Payback"
1999Now and AgainDoctorEpisode: "A Girl's Life"
2000Law & OrderJulius ReinhardEpisode: "High & Low"
2002Law & Order: Criminal IntentMancusoEpisode: "Badge"
2002EdSid PenningtonEpisode: "Neighbors"
2004Law & OrderDr. Stuart BartonEpisode: "Cut"
2007American ExperienceNathaniel PendletonEpisode: "Alexander Hamilton"
2010Law & OrderSymposium OrganizerEpisode: "Brazil"
2013UnforgettableDr. Eugene LustigEpisode: "Memory Kings"
2014The RewriteJoshFeature film
2014The Good WifePrincipal Adam EnglehardtEpisode: "The Trial"

References
  1. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/30/movies/theater-review-housman-s-hell-stoppard-s-style.html
  2. https://variety.com/1995/legit/reviews/picasso-at-the-lapin-agile-3-1200443315/
  3. https://www.vulture.com/2012/12/theater-reviews-great-god-pan-my-name-is-asher-lev.html
  4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mark-nelson-is-lone-highlight-in-contrived-merchant-of-venice-at-shakespeare/2011/06/28/AGxoFtpH_story.html
  5. http://blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2009/02/plain_dealer_review_of_2005_i.html
  6. https://variety.com/2006/legit/reviews/underneath-the-lintel-1200516056/
  7. http://www.princeton.edu/arts/arts_at_princeton/theater/professor_bios/
  8. HB Studio Faculty Page
  9. https://www.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?pagewanted=print&res=9500E6D71F39F935A25752C0A96E958260
  10. https://www.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?pagewanted=print&res=9C0DE3D61E38F934A35751C0A96F958260
  11. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-01-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. https://hbstudio.org/instructors/nelson-mark/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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