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 commercial s and infomercials before switching to a writing career and signing with a literary agent. Kelly began directing, producing and writing screenplays for horror movies in 1999 and hopped onto the indie horror scene with his award -winning debut schlocker I'll Bury You Tomorrow (2002), which has led to a steady and popular directing/acting career in independent horror.

Great grandfather, William Clarence Rowe, did extra work for 'Kalem Moving Pictures, Co.' in silent films such as 'The Runaway Engine' (1911) and 'The Peril of the Plains' (1911) starring Alice Joyce.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.Voted 'Horror Homo of 2004' at 'The Peephole's Choice' Awards/Campblood.orgOwner and producer of SouthPaw PicturesGained over 50lbs. to play Beefteena Bullion in The Blood Shed (2007).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.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.Inductee to the 2009 Dark Carnival Film Festival's Hall Of Fame.Won Best Actor for his performance in A Far Cry From Home (Gallery Of Fear 2010) at the 2009 Terror Film Festival.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.Though 6' 2" tall, is cast mostly in women's roles, playing sassy agents, prostitutes or nefarious femme fatales.Won Best Feature awards in 2002 for his debut film I'll Bury You Tomorrow at the Telluride Indiefest, NY Independent Film & Video Festival, and the 2003 Key West Indie Fest.Won Best Supporting Actor for his role as Urbane in Bart Mastronardi's 'Vindication' at the 2010 Terror Film Festival.Won Best Supporting Actor at the 2010 Dark Carnival Film Festival for his portrayal of Charity Betencourt in the Psycho Street episode- Hypochondriac.