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| - Called him a “film star!” Toronto’s Now Magazine for his role as the suicidal gambler in Sundance Channel’s cult classic Dogs: The Rise & Fall of An All-Girl Bookie Joint (1996), Nelson was given exclusive permission from the Lenny Bruce Estate and the late producer Marvin Worth to produce and perform a one-person show entitled How to Talk Dirty and Influence People: The Story of Lenny Bruce which ran for a year at Workhouse Theatre before moving to the Off-Broadway house Mother located in New York’s Meatpacking District (1999). The sold-out show which benefited the charity God’s Love We Deliver received critical mentions from the Village Voice which praised his rendition as “restless, brilliant and hilarious” and TimeOut New York’s chief theatre critic, Sam Whitehead, branding him “an impresario, a notorious theatrical madman”. Between performances and during his time with Ethan Hawke’s Malaparte Theater Company, Nelson was charged with assisting company public relation initiatives and found that he enjoyed the work. He soon took a part-time position with PR pioneer Peggy Siegal’s company overseeing the Warner Brothers account and film premieres including Run Lola Run, Flawless, Batman, Rob Roy and House of Spirits. He was wooed by Sak’s Fifth Avenue to handle corporate celebrity wrangling before accepting a full time position at Andew Rasiej’s Irving Plaza Concert Hall as the Director of Public Relations handling promotions for performers Yoko Ono, Eric Bogosian, BB King and more. Moving to Jason Weinberg & Associates as Senior Executive of Public Relations, Nelson served as the chief representative for a stable of celebrity clients including Tim Burton, Debbie Harry, David LaChapelle, Lennox Lewis and Sean "Puffy" Combs. Weinberg soon closed his PR practice to focus on management and moved to Los Angeles to open Untitled Entertainment. Nelson instituted his own firm entitled Workhouse Publicity, in honor of the now defunct Workhouse Theater Company, within a rented kitchen within Gill Holland's CineBlast! Productions in SoHo. His roster included brands and artists including Interview Magazine, David LaChapelle and Francis Ford Coppola. Over the course of eight years, Workhouse eventually took possession of the entire 2,500 square foot space and transformed it into a Sam-Spade-detective-style agency with a private garden. After the tragedy of September 11th, Workhouse Publicity relocated to Chelsea where the agency produced the first production of production of the 24 Hour Plays to aid The NY State WTC Relief Fund with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rosie Perez, Benjamin Bratt, Billy Crudup, Mary-Louise Parker, Julianne Moore, Marisa Tomei, Adam Nelson, Kyra Sedgwick, Lili Taylor, Natasha Lyonne, Scarlett Johansson, Liev Schreiber, Robert Sean Leonard, Drena DeNiro, Catherine Kellner, Brendan Sexton, Jared Harris, Sam Rockwell, Fisher Stevens and Adam Nelson who appeared in six short plays, each written less than a day before the curtain raised. Under the direction of Gregory Mosher, Anna Strasberg, Pippin Parker, six plays written by Frank Pugliese, Warren Leight, Richard LaGravenese, Tamara Jenkins, Nicole Burdette and Chris Shinn debuted and closed in New York on Monday, September 24th, 2001 at the Minetta Lane Theater. Workhouse Publicity produced Interview Magazine’s 30th Anniversary, Richard Branson’s grand opening of New York’s Virgin Megastore, Galleries Lafayette’s 20th Anniversary in France, Dolce & Gabanna’s Hollywood with Jennifer Lopez, Francis Ford Coppola’s Festa Macaroni, Peter Gatien’s grand opening of Circa in Toronto and launch events at Versace, Harry Winston, Van Cleef & Arpels, Gracie Mansion, Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall for Assouline Editions, Bergdorf Goodman, Borrelli of Italy, Carl F. Bucherer of Switzerland, Carolina Herrera, Diane von Furstenberg, Donna Karan, Dolce & Gabbana, Oscar de la Renta. Adam Nelson was selected by the International Who's Who of Entrepreneurs in 2002 and the International Who’s Who of Executives in 2003, Who's Who is a network of recognized purveyors whose credentials are well established and has been documenting biographies on successful professionals since 1928. Nelson has received the National Congressional Committee’s 2003 National Leadership Award and was elected to serve an Honorary Chairman of the Business Advisory Council. He married the stage manager of his show How to Talk Dirty, Alison Nelson in 2002. Alison Nelson is the founding owner of Chocolate Bar whose locations include New York's East Village, Henri Bendel, Long Beach Island and 30 locations in Dubai, India and the Middle East. The couple reside in New York and have two children a daughter, Lulu Scout Nelson and a son, Sailor August Nelson. News and Editorial Mentions
* Space Cadet (New York Post: Page Six Magazine 2008- 4- 18)
* Academy Awards: Culture of Swag (Washington Post, 2 March 2006)
* A Life of Truffles, and It's Flourishing (New York Times 2007-11-16)
* Shoot to Thrill- Photographer David LaChapelle (The Advocate 2007-11-16)
* Shelter (Village Voice 2007-11-16)
* Fast Actin' Relief (New York Magazine 2007-11-16)
* Stunt Man (Gig 2007-11-16)
* La Dolce Musto (Village Voice 2007-11-16)
* The Fall of Rome (Bizbash, 05.26.04)
* Clock is Running (Variety March 6 2002)
* A Hard Day's Night (Vogue/ Style.com 16 March 2002)
* Civil Rites (TimeOut New York Oct 28- Nov 4, 1999)
* Sex & Lies (Show Business September 22, 1999)
* Fall Preview (TimeOut New York September 9, 1999)
* Subways are a Grimy Way to Go (New York Times, February 11, 1999)
* Watched the Birdie (interview Magazine, January 1999)
* Dirty Talk (TimeOut New York, August 13-20, 1998)
* Cast of Characters (Take One! Hamptons FIlm Festival, 1998)
* Florida Exile (The Villager, October 18, 1995)
* Stars Electrify Party Scenarios (Now Magazine September 17-23, 1998)
* Downtown Sensibility (Backstage Magazine 25 July 1997)
* Go West (TimeOut New York, July 24-31, 1997)
* Notions in Motion (TimeOut New York, July 24-31, 1997)
* Cast of Characters (Take One! East Hampton Film Festival October 19, 1997)
* Performance Unreality (New York Magazine, June 23-30, 1997)
* Notions in Motion (Backstage Magazine, June 27, 1997)
* Great Acting, Spunk carry Updated Satire (The Star-Ledger, July 23, 1997)
* Theater (Chelsea Clinton News, July 31, 1997)
* Pirandello, Now Dressed All in Black and Angst (New York Times, June 3, 1997)
* How To Talk Dirty (Downtown Express, November 19- December 2, 1996)
* How To Talk Dirty (TimeOut New York, December 12-19, 1996)
* Tallahasse (Downtown Express, October 15, 1995)
* Tallahasse (TimeOut New York, October 25- Nov 1, 1995)
* Easy Come (Village Voice, May 2, 1995)
* Adam Nelson (Seventeen Magazine, February 1994)
* The Play's the Thing (Manhattan File Magazine, December 1994)
* These Bubbles Never Burst (NY Post, 12 Nov 1994)
* The Iconoclast as Icon: Filling Lenny's Shoes (New York Times, Friday, June 24, 1992)
* Arden Theater Company Stages Hamlet (Philadelphia Inquirer, February, 1991)
* Play's the Thing in Offbeat Hamlet (The News Journal, Feb 8-10, 1991)
* Arden's Hamlet is Original and Chilling (Catholic Standard and Times, Feb 21, 1991) REFERENCES: IMDB: FAME GAME: A SMALL WORLD:
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