Biography

Tom Nelis

Film and Television: Recent exciting work includes portraying Howard Hughes in J.J. Abrams new HBO series DUSTER and shooting opposite Paul Mescal in HISTORY OF SOUND. Also: OUT AND ABOUT, GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY, INDECENT, ESTELLA SCROGE, THE TWIN TOWERS, MISSING CHILDREN, WHOPPIE, SMASH, LITTLE KINGS, Conan O'Brien and A GIFTED MAN

Mr Nelis has appeared on Broadway in GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY, INDECENT, THE VISIT, ENRON, THE CAINE MUTINY COURT MARTIAL, and AIDA. Off Broadway he has been seen at The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, The Signature Theater, Classic Stage Company, Theater for a New Audience / The Royal Shakespeare Company, Cafe La Mama, New York Theater Workshop, Second Stage, Dance Theater Workshop, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Mineta Lane, and Manhattan Theater Club as well as at regional theaters across the U.S..

He has been awarded an Eliot Norton Award for Prospero in The Tempest, an OBIE for Marshall McLuhan in THE MEDIUM, and a Drama League Nomination for Leonard Bernstein in SCORE.

Nelis was a founding member of SITI Company and performed with that ensemble for 25 years. He has toured the U.S. and Europe with both Laurie Anderson and Richard Foreman He earned his MFA at UC San Diego.

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