Dana Cain

Aug 30, 2024 | denvergazette.com | Kirsten Dahl |Dana Cain |Selina Fillinger |David Lindsay-Abaire

You can know everything you need to know about a person by how they treat their waitress. Just ask Jessie Nelson, who slung the hash while she pursued her dream to become a film writer and director. “I always called waitressing my Hollywood Finishing School, because I learned everything I know about writing from waitressing,” Nelson told me in a 2017 interview. “You can size up a person’s character in two brushstrokes.