Lance Steen Anthony Nielsen
It's 2023! Let's get you booked!
I have booked actors onto Law & Order, Robyn Hood & other television dramas. Let's make sure you're next!
Looking for some Creative assistance?
Hi I'm Lance and I'm here to help. With over 20 years in the entertainment as an actor, director, casting consultant and writer I can help in a number of ways including:- * Break down scenes
- * Flesh out character/story
- * Run lines
- * Rehearse
- * Breakdown the script
- * Help you practice your English accent
- * Work on that Shakespeare audition
- * Or just have a chat and imbue you with positivity!
AS A DIRECTOR / COACH: I am an experienced director and acting coach, working with actors of all ages and experience, both on and off set.
AS A CASTING DIRECTOR: I can offer some considerable insight towards the audition process. I recently coached someone for an audition for a lead in an American television drama series. They got the part. I just wanted to extend my sincere thanks to them for letting me know they got role and thanking me for my assistance.
AS A WRITER/SCRIPT EDITORS: Written your own play / short film / feature film? I’m experienced at script coaching, editing, reports and delivering narratives in all forms.
About me
I have written numerous scripts for both stage and film, directed written and produced feature films and stage productions. For more a more in-depth look at my work please visit my www.diamondsintheskybookseries.comThank you for such lovely and positive reviews in so short a time. I feel both honoured and humbled by your kind comments. If I’m you’d like to book a session contact me on: <>lancenielsenfilmmaker@gmail.com
ABOUT LANCE: Lance acted at an early age in Bugsy Malone, and several shorts and indy feature films under his acting name Alex Heaton. He soon moved over to writing and directing. He's directed over 15 plays for the London Stage, three of them award winning, a number of shorts and a 2 features, as well as showcases, online web series and currently has two pilots with two major media platform outlets. He's also worked both as and with Casting Directors and can often quickly identify what they're looking for on a self-tape from the pages they send out and has a good track record of advancing actors to the next round in the casting process.
'I'm very proactive and always networking. In addition to teaching and tutoring, I am also interested in collaborating and connecting with actors based in NYC, Chicago and LA who have a theatre background.'
His first stage play ‘Waiting for Hillsborough’ in 1997 won him his first award for the Best Talent in New Writing, at the Liverpool Arts and Entertainment Awards. Theatre work includes: ‘Sticks and Stones’, ‘Fragile’, ‘Hi I’m Vince’ ‘Signing On’ ‘Borderlands’ ‘The Victoria Climbie Inquiry’ earned Time Out magazine Critics Choice, 'Making Time' won a Peter Brook Empty Space Award. ‘Eleven Years down The River - The Marchioness Disaster.’ Won him a Peggy Ramsay Award. His first feature film ‘The Journey' starring Jason Flemyng was shot almost entirely on location in Greece and won him his first award for Best Director. In 2019 he wrote & directed Borderlands, which tackled the subject of immigration, where the audience voted to determine the fate of the character in the play. Much his work tackles issues set within social and political arenas frequently exploring a clash of cultures within the themes and topics that explore historical events of social injustice. He was the writer in residence at the Jackson’s Lane Theatre from 1997 until 2001.
In 2017 the first novel in his Diamonds in the Sky, Parousia, series was published to glowing reviews, the second in the series, The Orphans of Babylon was released in May 2021 and he is currently writing the third in the series.
In 2020 during the pandemic, Lance stayed as pro-active as possible – he wrote no less than thirty scripts, including two stage plays and two television pilots. One of these, Second Skin, has been optioned by Craig Fairbrass. The others included the entire first season of ten episodes for the television series based on his book. He also wrote ‘Hunters’ for director Patrick Ryder, ‘Hexed’ for director James Bushe and ‘Showdown at the Fat Komodo’ for Tripod Productions.
In addition to co-creating Second Skin his projects in development include: ‘Seven Magnificent Egos’. (About the making of the original Magnificent 7 Movie) ‘We Are Home’ (about ill-fated Zambian football squad) ‘Paratrooper’ the true story of the first black Paratrooper in the British Army. and ‘The Kiss That Would Last A Life Time’, a romantic drama set in Italy.
Currently, he is also co-writing the play ‘Who We Are’ with LGBT activist Stephen Hart, about the lives of ten friends who survived the HIV epidemic, only to find themselves facing a drug epidemic and was commissioned recently to write ‘Flight of the Eagles’ for Theresa Cole. He is currently working on two new plays, 'The Tweet' & 'The Mistro of Hollywood - DFZ'
Alongside his frequent collaborator Dickon Tolson, Lance runs The Outcasts Creative. A Film & Theatre Company which runs drop-in acting improvisation classes every Monday in North London and also produces one play a year. During lockdown they produced and directed two online drama series, both adapted from screenplays of his – 13 Seconds in Kent State, which performed live in 2021, and Persecution which was performed live by members of his acting class, The Outcasts in 2020. He also recently wrote a screenplay for actor Phil Davis in which Lance and actor Jason Flemyng will both play his sons and co-direct.
The rights to all of Lance’s screenplays, plays & books are co-owned by his friend, the actor Jason Flemyng.
