Adam Kelly (born Adam Kelly Morton, January 9, 1973) is a Canadian
actor, writer, producer and teacher.Born in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
district of Montreal, Kelly grew up in Pierrefonds. He first began
stage acting while attending John Rennie High School, where he met
future collaborators Donovan King and Tetsuro Shigematsu. Electing to
pursue health science at John Abbott College and then biology at
Concordia University, Kelly continued performing, co-founding the
Wahoo Family Theatre Company with Donovan King and with future sketch
comedy partner Matthew Legault.Having completed his Bachelor of
Science degree in 1995, Kelly returned to Concordia in 1996 to begin
his formal actor training in Theatre Performance, (working alongside
future singer-songwriters Pierre Gage and Martha Wainwright.) While
attending Concordia, he was invited by former classmate Tetsuro
Shitematsu to play in his feature film Yellow Fellas. Kelly also
appeared in Canada: A People's History as a boisterous, Irish
supporter of Daniel Tracey.In 1999, Kelly was accepted into the Master
of Fine Arts Acting program at York University, Toronto. There, he
performed in a workshop production of Colleen Murphy's The Piper (with
future film star Rachel McAdams) and studied under David Rotenberg,
David Smukler and Dean Gilmour, among others. As a second year thesis
assignment, Kelly created a play that would eventually become The
Anorak, his critically acclaimed one-man-show about the École
Polytechnique massacre and the life and death of Marc Lépine.
actor, writer, producer and teacher.Born in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
district of Montreal, Kelly grew up in Pierrefonds. He first began
stage acting while attending John Rennie High School, where he met
future collaborators Donovan King and Tetsuro Shigematsu. Electing to
pursue health science at John Abbott College and then biology at
Concordia University, Kelly continued performing, co-founding the
Wahoo Family Theatre Company with Donovan King and with future sketch
comedy partner Matthew Legault.Having completed his Bachelor of
Science degree in 1995, Kelly returned to Concordia in 1996 to begin
his formal actor training in Theatre Performance, (working alongside
future singer-songwriters Pierre Gage and Martha Wainwright.) While
attending Concordia, he was invited by former classmate Tetsuro
Shitematsu to play in his feature film Yellow Fellas. Kelly also
appeared in Canada: A People's History as a boisterous, Irish
supporter of Daniel Tracey.In 1999, Kelly was accepted into the Master
of Fine Arts Acting program at York University, Toronto. There, he
performed in a workshop production of Colleen Murphy's The Piper (with
future film star Rachel McAdams) and studied under David Rotenberg,
David Smukler and Dean Gilmour, among others. As a second year thesis
assignment, Kelly created a play that would eventually become The
Anorak, his critically acclaimed one-man-show about the École
Polytechnique massacre and the life and death of Marc Lépine.
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