Mark Nelson (actor)
Mark Nelson is an American actor, director and teacher.
Biography
Nelson grew up in Westwood, New Jersey, in a Jewish family. Nelson graduated from the Horace Mann School before attending Princeton University, graduating in 1977. He later studied acting with Uta Hagen.Nelson made his feature film debut in the slasher film Friday the 13th. He appeared on Broadway in Angels in America, The Invention of Love, ''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 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 for which he received a Lortel nomination.
Other roles include Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at The Shakespeare Theater, Uncle Vanya, Matt in Talley's Folly, Bluntschli in Arms and the Man and two solo pieces: I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright and Underneath the Lintel by Glen Berger.
His TV work includes roles on Unforgettable, Law & Order and Spin City''. He teaches acting at Princeton University, Circle in the Square Theatre School, and at New York City's HB Studio. He has directed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Drama Dept., McCarter Theatre, George Street Playhouse, and Chautauqua Theatre Company, and is a frequent guest director at the Juilliard School.
In 2013 he received a Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship.