[1] After attending New York City art schools, Kelly commenced his career as an art director in the cosmetics field before becoming a makeup artist and hair stylist in Manhattan's fashion/advertising industry, working behind the camera for fashion magazines, catalogs, television commercials and infomercials.
[2] In 2006, Kelly founded SouthPaw Pictures, a film production company based in Paterson, New Jersey.
His other directing credits include Gallery of Fear (2013), The Blood Shed (2007) and Tales of Poe (2013).
[1] He portrays female characters in these and other films, such as Vindication (2006), Satan Hates You (2010) and Razor Days (2012).
[3] Kelly has been a longtime resident of Wharton, New Jersey, and wrote a history of the borough together with his mother.