Began artistic career as a make up artist/hair stylist in Manhattan's fashion/commercial industry. Spent years behind the camera styling photo shoots for fashion magazines, TV commercials and infomercials before switching to a writing career and signing with a literary agent. Kelly began directing, producing and writing screenplays for horror ...
Awarded Best Director with producing partner Bart Mastronardi for the film Tales Of Poe at the 2015 Killer Valley Horror Film Festival and also for Best Special Effects.
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Profiled in "Out in the Dark: Interviews with Gay Horror Filmmakers, Actors and Authors", Sean Abley, author. ( Lethe Press, 2013).
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Profiled in "Fervid Filmmaking: 66 Cult Pictures of Vision, Verve and No Self-Restraint", Mike Watt, author. ( McFarland Press, 2013).
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Guest host and M.C. at the 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 New York City Horror Film Festival.
Awarded Best Actor at the 2012 Macabre Faire Film Festival for his performance as aging screen star Peggy Lamarr in Bart Mastronardi's The Tell Tale Heart - part of Tales of Poe (2014)).
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Won 'Best Editing' for his work on the The Tell Tale Heart segment for Tales of Poe (2014) at the 2011 Buffalo Screams Horror Film Festival.
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Won Best Supporting Actor at the 2010 Dark Carnival Film Festival for his portrayal of Charity Betencourt in Psycho Street (2011) episode- Hypochondriac.
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Won Best Supporting Actor for his role as Urbane in Bart Mastronardi's Vindication (2006) at the 2010 Terror Film Festival.
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Won Best Feature awards in 2002 for his debut film I'll Bury You Tomorrow (2002) at the Telluride Indiefest, NY Independent Film & Video Festival, and the 2003 Key West Indie Fest.
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Though 6' 1" tall, is cast mostly in women's roles, playing sassy agents, prostitutes or nefarious femme fatales.
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Awarded the Jury Award at the 2009 Long Island Gay & Lesbian Film Festival for Most Exciting New Filmmaker with his film A Far Cry From Home.
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Won Best Actor for his performance in A Far Cry From Home / Gallery of Fear (2012) at the 2009 Terror Film Festival.
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Inductee to the 2009 Dark Carnival Film Festival's Hall Of Fame.
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Has co-authored a book with his mother, Charlotte Kelly, called "Wharton" (Arcadia Press), a historical biography on the small northwest New Jersey mining town where they were both born and raised.
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Family's ancestry dates back to early 16th Century and the Lenni Lenape Native American tribes from the Delaware Valley regions of northern New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, who eventually mixed with Dutch settlers and Hungarian immigrants around the end of the 18th Century.
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Gained over 50lbs. to play Beefteena Bullion in The Blood Shed (2007).
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Owner and producer of SouthPaw Pictures
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Voted 'Horror Homo of 2004' at 'The Peephole's Choice' Awards/Campblood.org
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Named Best director and Best writer and Best Independent Feature for 2003 for his debut film I'll Bury You Tomorrow (2002) by Next Tuesday Magazine.
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