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Meet Bruce Nelson | Arizona Legacy Project

01/20/2012 7:00 pm
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20
7pm | Meet Bruce Nelson | Arizona Legacy Project
Bruce Nelson
Award-winning actor, writer, and storyteller Bruce Nelson performs a dramatic reading of his Arizona Legacy Project: An Arizona African American History Project. Created in honor of the upcoming celebration of Arizona’s centennial anniversary, the Arizona Legacy Project includes five short films, five short stories, and five audio drama recordings based on Nelson’s experience growing up in Washington Park Neighborhood, a small segregated African-American community in Mesa.

ABOUT BRUCE NELSON
Award winning actor/filmmaker Bruce Nelson is a local artist with a credible reputation as a producer and performer throughout the theater and film industry in Arizona. Nelson work for six years as Artistic Director for LA Free Clinic’s Project ABLE where he wrote a series of one act plays. His one-act play Anansi and The Sky God was an official selection of The Last Frontier Theater Conference in 2009. His first Short Story The Porch: The Hangin Man that he turned into a short film, entitled Raglin Tales Chapter 3, was an official selection of the Arizona Black Film Showcase and the Phoenix Film Festival. Nelson’s vocals were featured on Jazz Antiqua’s Midtown Sunset CD recording, he has often been referred to as the voice of Jazz Antiqua. His recent production of “Simply Sammy,” a musical celebration of Sammy Davis Jr., had great success produced at the Desert Foothills Theater. He was nominated for AriZoni Awards for choreographing Fame the Musical, at Desert Foothills Theater. Nelson’s film acting credits include: No Code Of Conduct, Blind Eye, Arizona Summer, Neatherbeast Incorporated, and Take Me Home Tonight.
Location: 
Street:
6428 S McClintock Dr.
City:
Tempe
,
Province:
Arizona
Postal Code:
85283
Country:
United States
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