J. Kelly Nestruck - Wikipedia
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James Kelleher Nestruck ( NESS-truk; styled as J. Kelly Nestruck) is a Canadian journalist and arts critic. After a longtime stint as the chief theatre critic for The Globe and Mail, he shifted in October 2024 to become a television critic for the paper following the retirement of John Doyle.[1]
Nestruck was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was raised in Montreal. He is bilingual.
Nestruck began writing for the McGill Daily, one of the student-run newspapers at McGill University in Montreal, while studying drama at the school's English department. He began an internship at the National Post as a reporter in 2003. He moved to feature writing shortly after.[2]
In 2006, Nestruck became a subeditor and writer for The Guardian in London, England.
He returned to Toronto in 2008 to take the role of theatre critic for The Globe and Mail. He is a four-time winner of the Nathan Cohen Award for Excellence in Critical Writing,[3][4][5][6] and in 2013, he was a runner-up for a National Newspaper Award in the Arts and Entertainment category.[7]
He completed a masters at the Centre for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies at University of Toronto in 2013.
In 2016, Nestruck married playwright and screenwriter Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman. He cited the need to be more present at home for their children, thus making it difficult for him to attend evening theatrical shows, as a reason for his shift to television criticism in 2024.[1]
- ^ a b Aisling Murphy, "An exit interview with Globe and Mail theatre critic J. Kelly Nestruck". Intermission, November 9, 2024.
- ^ My Job Could Be Your Life: J. Kelly Nestruck Archived 2013-10-18 at the Wayback Machine. The Grid, September 12, 2011.
- ^ "Herb Whittaker and Nathan Cohen Awards presented by CTCA in Toronto". 2 December 2012.
- ^ "Globe critic J. Kelly Nestruck wins Nathan Cohen Award for theatre criticism". The Globe and Mail. 10 November 2016.
- ^ "Globe drama writer J. Kelly Nestruck wins Nathan Cohen Award". The Globe and Mail. 4 December 2019.
- ^ "Globe theatre critic J. Kelly Nestruck wins Nathan Cohen Award for critical essay". The Globe and Mail. 16 December 2022.
- ^ "National Newspaper Awards: Full list of winners and runners-up". The Star. Toronto. May 3, 2013.