Actor, Singer, Writer, and Director, PHILIP PAUL KELLY, has been performing most of his life. He started his career as a backup-singer and went on to perform on cruise ships before landing his first starring role playing “Tony” in “West Side Story” at Bucks County Playhouse. He has appeared in national tour productions of the Broadway shows of “Titanic” and “Camelot” as well as regional productions of “Elf The Musical”, “1776”, “A Christmas Carol”, “The Full Monty”, “Jekyll & Hyde”, “Peter Pan”, “Beauty and the Beast”, and “La Cage Aux Folles.” Most recently he appeared in; “Legacy The Musical” as Hans Luther & Pope Leo X, which received the Best Reading in Festival award at NYMF. Kelly’s other notable appearances include the workshop and concert of “Ragtime on Ellis Island” as Admiral Peary with Brian Stokes Mitchell, Georgia Engel, Brandon Victor Dixon, Michael Park, and Laura Michelle Kelly. He has made appearances in independent films including Onur Tukel’s “Black Magic for White Boys.” In addition, Philip produced and hosted “The Hero’s Benefit” after 9-11 at the Triad Theater which included appearances by Tony Roberts, Louise Pitre (Broadway’s Mama Mia), as well as KT Sullivan, Mark Nadler, Andrea Marcovicci (stars of stage and cabaret), and Grammy Award Winning Composer, Julie Gold. Philip has written a musical titled “Rockquiem For A Wrestler” which features the music of Eddie Star and Paul Castrataro which debuted it’s first staged reading at The Triad Theater in NYC and received remarkable response and interest from both the public and industry professionals. He went on to produce an advanced elevated staged reading of “Rockquiem For A Wrestler” which was successfully received and has now been coined as a “A Rock-n-Roll Wrestling Spectacle” currently being developed for the screen.
