· TheMichaels: Conversations During Difficult Times premiered at The Public Theater in New York in the fall of 2019. · WhatHappened?: The Michaels Abroad premiered at the Frederick Loewe Theater at Hunter College in New York inthe fall of 2021. · Both The Michaels and What Happened?: The Michaels Abroad were NewYork Times Critic's Picks. · RichardNelson is a Tony-award winning playwright and director. · Nelsonreceived the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. He has also been the recipient of theRockefeller Foundation Playwright-in-Residence Award (1979-80). · Nelson'splay James Joyce's The Dead received a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.

· His works also include: o The critically acclaimed The Apple Family Plays . o Both The Gabriels and The Apple FamilyPlays were broadcast as part of the "Great Performances" series on PBS. o Nelson wrote the book for the Broadway musical Chess (1988). o The Vienna Notes earned Nelson an ObieAward for Playwriting. o Some Americans Abroad earned him a DramaDesk Award for outstanding new play (2000). · Nelsonis the co-translator with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky on the TCGClassic Russian Drama series.