About Me — James Patrick Nelson
...you can call me Jamie...
I’m an outgoing, exuberant, big-hearted, passionate, queer actor/writer/filmmaker/poet/storyteller, loving life in New York City, with extended work trips to Los Angeles in recent years.
First and foremost, I’m a stage actor. I recently starred in two Off-Broadway world premieres — one a NYT Critic’s Pick. I performed in the LA transfer of Broadway’s Slave Play, the most Tony-nominated production in history. I starred in the world premiere of Immortal Longings, the final play by Terrence McNally, the same year he won the Lifetime Achievement Tony. I starred in two regional transfers of Bedlam’s Off-Broadway hit Sense and Sensibility, in a Broadway try-out at the American Repertory Theatre and a twice-extended production at the Folger Theatre where we won several Helen Hayes Awards. I stepped into Bedlam’s Pygmalion Off-Broadway, and joined the sold-out production in Boston. I began my Off-Broadway career in productions of Chekhov opposite Maggie Gyllenhaal and Ethan Hawke. And a recent article chronicles my adventures on a national tour with a classical repertory theatre early in my career.
