Lance Nielsen
London, England, United Kingdom
Lance Nielsen
London, England, United Kingdom
He is an award winning Writer, Director and an occasional Actor. Hestudied at Epsom School of Art and design in Surrey and performed in the WestEnd in Bugsy Malone in his youth. He worked on two low budget feature films andwas an active member of the New Producers Alliance in the 1990s. Since 1997 hedirected 12 Theatrical Productions in London and been a member of both AnnaScheer and Timber Theatre drama workshops. His first play 'Waiting ForHillsborough’, won him critical acclaim and the best talent in new writing withthe Liverpool Art and Entertainment awards. He received Time Out’s critic’schoice for his play about The Victoria Climbie and Marchioness Inquiries and aPeter Brook empty space award for the black comedy ‘Making Time’. Other workincludes ‘Sticks And Stones’ a sweeping play set over three decades of theconflict in Northern Ireland which ran twice, the musical 'East End of Chicago'and ‘Hi I’m Vince’ about HIV, Twelve Angry Women, an all ethnic femalemodern jury room drama inspired by the play 12 Angry Men and Fragile, aplay dealing with sexual abuse in Nigerian families. He has written severalother feature films, three of which are under development and also ghost writesbiographies for celebrities. He regularly runs creative writing workshops andgives talks at the London Screen Writers Festival and has also worked onnumerous shorts, wrote and directed the trailer for the feature film ‘Jericho's Walls Are Falling’starring acclaimed actor Jason Flemyng and Gideon Turner. He just finished thefeature film 'The Journey' with Jason Flemyng, Duncan Pow, and Lindsey Coulson whichhas so far been nominated for 5 awards and won one. Currently working on adocumentary about the life of the photographer of Harvey Milk, Danny Nicolettaand a second one about Cameron Bay. His production company is Eagles Dare filmswhich he runs with Alex Tabrizi. Their company is also making a documentaryabout the recent 'Banksy' artwork in Cheltenham. Lance is currently writing'Pegasus Bridge' which is set during D-Day 1944 and just finished 'We Are Home'about the Zambian football disaster.