Lance Nielsen was born on 1974 and is an English screenwriter and playwright whose work focuses predominantly on topics set in social and political arenas.
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30 Facts About Lance Nielsen
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Lance Nielsen frequently explores themes of grief, loss, love and friendship.
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Lance Nielsen worked in the US and Africa teaching disadvantaged children drama and video production and creative writing.
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Lance Nielsen won an industrial tribunal against his former employers which enabled him to produce his first film.
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Lance Nielsen is an avid supporter of the independent music band, Rubylux, whom he first saw playing on the streets of Brighton.
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Lance Nielsen is a member of the Timber Theatre Improvisational Acting Class, run by Graham Fletcher-Cooke.
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Lance Nielsen was an early supporter of Meadow's short film festival events in 1996 that were held in the city.
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Lance Nielsen directed a number of shorts and workshops while in Nottingham with Best Shot Films and assisted with casting and directing a number of other shorts.
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Lance Nielsen, who lived in the south was compelled to write the play after feeling he was duped by the media about who was to blame for the disaster.
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Lance Nielsen moved back to North London in September 1997 and his work began to focus on theatre.
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Lance Nielsen quickly became the writer in residence at the North London Arts Venue, the Jacksons Lane Theatre, writing and directing two plays a year for the next six years under The Gutted Film and Theatre Company.
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Lance Nielsen shot a second feature film 30 but was not happy with the result and after limited screenings he withdrew it from release.
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Lance Nielsen spent a considerable amount of time living and working in Los Angeles.
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Shortly after the production Lance Nielsen collapsed with a stroke and fit which hospitalised him for three months.
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Lance Nielsen's doctor told him to avoid stress and he did not direct again for two years.
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Lance Nielsen directed two plays with Tom Hardy's Shotgun Theatre Company in 2006 and early 2007 respectively and wrote Pressure, the documentary drama about the life of Colin Stagg.
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Lance Nielsen was involved in another production with actors Dan Styles and Gideon Turner called Jericho's Walls Are Falling, which he wrote and directed.
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Lance Nielsen directed two plays in 2010,12 Angry Women, with an all female, all ethnic cast, which was a success and Fragile, co-written by Angela Thomas.
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Lance Nielsen wrote two other scripts in 2012, "The Last Submarine" and "Gaddafi" which is about the last ninety minutes of the life of the former Libyan Dictator.
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Lance Nielsen directed a short about Londoners views on Gaddafi in August 2012.
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Lance Nielsen wrote the screenplay of 'We Are Home' which is a drama based on the events which led to the underdog Zambian football team winning the African Cup of Nations in 2012.
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Lance Nielsen is making a short documentary about the life of Danny Nicoletta who found fame himself by his association with Harvey Milk in San Francisco.
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Lance Nielsen is making a documentary about the life of Cameron Adams who is better known as Cameron Bay, the porn star infected with HIV.
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Lance Nielsen has completed shooting The Journey with actors Duncan Pow, Dickon Tolson, Mitchell Lewis, Marc Zammit, Lindsey Coulson and Jason Flemyng.
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In 2016, Lance Nielsen commenced pre-production on the war film Pegasus Bridge about the capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges on 6 June 1944, as part of the Normandy landings during the Second World War.
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Lance Nielsen is known for dedicating his work to friends or actors whom he admires.
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Lance Nielsen has made dedications to regular collaborators Danny Webb and Jason Flemyng.
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Lance Nielsen was one of the friends present during her time in hospital where she fought for but ultimately lost her life over a three-day period.
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Lance Nielsen produced their unfinished play, Fragile in 2010 which he had to complete without her.
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