How One of the Finest Actors, Lee Mark Nelson, Gave up the Stage for A

Community Community The off icial Visiting inaugural German P6ceremony P16 conductor and oath leads orchestra to taking of Aster enthral audience Volunteers at Qatar National takes place. Convention Centre. Monday, September 16, 2019 Muharram 17, 1441 AH Doha today: 300 - 380 TURNAROUND: Former actor-turned- physician Dr Lee Mark Nelson poses for a photo outside the Guthrie Theater where he once acted, and near Mill City Clinic where he now works. Leap of faith COVER How one of the finest actors, Lee Mark Nelson, STORY gave up the stage for a new life in medicine. P4-5 2 GULF TIMES Monday, September 16, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.02am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.21am Zuhr (noon) 11.30am Asr (afternoon) 2.58pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.39pm Isha (night) 7.09pm USEFUL NUMBERS Pailwaan downtrodden people. 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E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Monday, September 16, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY The second essay Lee Mark Nelson made the most dramatic leap of his life a decade ago, quitting his highly respected stage career to embark on a daunting path to become a physician. Rohan Preston on how he made it It’s hard to have courage in this world — to say your true feelings, be honest with yourself and follow your passion. Mark has that — Michelle O’Neill, ‘ spouse ’ IN HIS ZONE: Dr Lee Mark Nelson poses for a photo outside the Guthrie Theater and an image of Anton Checkov, famed Russian playwright and physician, where Nelson once acted. orget about a 40-year- said Michelle O’Neill, a celebrated but medicine’s gain.” Twin Cities, a place the Utah native thought seriously about law, taking old virgin — how about a actor and teacher who also is Nelson, whose brother, Kris fi rst worked in 1996, he looked the LSATs and gaining admission 40-year-old med school Nelson’s wife of 21 years. “It’s hard Nelson, and sister-in-law, Tracey around at the community and tried into schools on the East Coast. But student? to have courage in this world — to Maloney, also are highly regarded to imagine where he would be in a one day while in New York, he was Lee Mark Nelson made say your true feelings, be honest performers, sees it diff erently. The decade or two. walking in Manhattan when he saw Fthe most dramatic leap of his life with yourself and follow your professions, he says, have a lot in What he saw was both a crowd gathered on a sidewalk at a a decade ago, when he was at the passion. Mark has that.” common. encouraging and discouraging. famous law building. An attorney top of his game, celebrated for Nelson had the encouragement After a lifetime of honing their had plunged to his death, probably a essaying the shy assistant manager of family, mentors and the “Medicine has the perfect skills and building up their suicide. He took that as an omen. in She Loves Me at the Guthrie, the community. But it takes more combination of so many of the résumés, some veteran actors were It was, coincidentally, about the dutiful Father in Ragtime at Park than that to go back to school with things I loved about theatre,” he still cobbling together a living from same time that Dr Jon Hallberg, Square and the big-hearted Daddy kids who could be your kids, and said. “You never stop learning, so bits and pieces of theatre work and a physician and arts lover who Warbucks in Annie at the Children’s take pre-med courses like organic every time you do a play, you’re teaching. Such instability seemed teaches at the University of Theatre.

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