Hank Nuwer
- Actor
Hank Nuwer is a full-time actor and author based in Fairbanks, Alaska.
His secondary locations are Warsaw, Poland and Union City, Indiana.
His performances as
an actor in 2023-2024 include Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street,
the Professor in University of Alaska's
Something in the Living Room, and Prince Escalus in Romeo and Julet.
His 25 books have titles such as Wrongs of Passage, High School Hazing,
Broken Pledges: the Deadly Rite of Hazing and The Legend of Jesse
Owens. Broken Pledges was adapted for the screen as an NBC-TV movie
called Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges, with Linda Gray, Leon Russom
and Barry Bonds, a San Francisco Giants baseball player. It was
directed by Jorge Monte and filmed in Vancouver, Canada.
Nuwer has been interviewed about ways to combat hazing and binge drinking by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, NBC Nightly News, Fox on Education, and the ABC Home Show.
Holder of a bachelor's degree in English education from Buffalo State College (NY), he was named a BSC distinguished alum in 1999 and granted a State University of New York honorary Doctor of Human Letters (with actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson) in 2006 from Buffalo State. His master's degree is in English from New Mexico Highlands University.
Nuwer has been interviewed about ways to combat hazing and binge drinking by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, NBC Nightly News, Fox on Education, and the ABC Home Show.
Holder of a bachelor's degree in English education from Buffalo State College (NY), he was named a BSC distinguished alum in 1999 and granted a State University of New York honorary Doctor of Human Letters (with actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson) in 2006 from Buffalo State. His master's degree is in English from New Mexico Highlands University.
