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 imp