About us

About Us

The problem human beings face is not that we aim too high and fail,
but that we aim too low and succeed.

Born from an eye for detail and military precision, Nelson Management prides itself on it's ability to deliver quality without comprising on our morals. With a wealth of industry experience, both on stage and off, Elizabeth Pratt guides the team and clients through the challenging market to ensure that everyone feels supported and understood.

Having attended dance classes since she could stand, as well as playing a number of instruments, Liz went on to play in a band and then teach, choreograph and perform with a small touring group and appeared in a number of musical theatre shows.
After an aerial stunt went wrong, injury took Liz away from the stage. She learned more about senior management, discipline and sales before the industry pulled her back in when her eldest child started performing herself.

Nelson management is founded on the belief that everyone deserves a chance and that taking the time to be supportive and kind costs nothing. This industry is tough enough, we believe in supporting fellow actors and creatives. Their journey is not ours and we are on our own path.

LEE NELSON 18th May 1945—30th June 2009

Nelson Management is named after Liz's beautiful and talented mother, Lee Nelson. Born in Woking UK in 1945 as Jane Miriam Whitaker, Lee's stage name was derived from part of her mother's maiden name, and a nickname she adopted in the early 1960s as the stage presence of a Latin American dance band, in her home town of Burgess Hill Sussex.

She was on stage from an early age first as an actor then as a dancer.

She took the Royal Academy of Dance examinations and in 1963 became a student member, later she became a full member and a Licentiate of the RAD as a dance teacher as well as an associate of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance.

During the 1960s she worked as an entertainer, a TV show hostess and a photographic model. First in the UK then in Ireland.

She was a keen advocate of young dancers, convinced that early dance training should be both rigorous and safe. She spent many hours with young and old, but her real enthusiasm was for her “babies” many of whom grew up to become dancers and actors in their own right.

She was noted for her looks and her bubbling, vibrant personality as well as her wicked sense of humour. Along with a compassionate heart for those less fortunate than herself. Lee died aged 64, in 2009, after a three year battle with ovarian cancer, but her legacy lives on in the young people she taught and the people she touched.