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Jessie Nelson is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. She is best known for directing and producing I Am Sam, for which she won the Stanley Kramer Award and the Naguib Mahfouz Award for the Best First or Second Work at the Cairo International Film Festival.
Nelson studied for a time at University of California, Santa Cruz, but left to work with Mabou Mines. She starred in the Shakespeare in the Park production of The Tempest with Raul Julia.
Nelson co-authored the 2011 children's book Labracadabra with Karen Leigh Hopkins.
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