Adam Nelson

Adam Nelson has lived at the intersection of performance and American storytelling for more than three decades — as an actor, filmmaker, and founder of Workhouse, the New York public relations agency he has run since 1999, representing filmmakers, artists, and cultural institutions. A professor at the New Jersey Film Academy, he is a merit winner of the Writer's Digest International Screenplay Competition. His debut novel, Huckleberry Jim — a BookLife Editor's Pick, longlisted for The Masters Review Novel Excerpt Prize in the top 3% of submissions — draws on his own 1991 tour performing a two-man Huckleberry Finn for schools across the Northeast. It publishes October 6, 2026, during Banned Books Week, with the audiobook simultaneously from Blackstone Publishing.