Dennis Kelly

Dennis Kelly (born 1970) is a British writer for film, television and theatre. He is perhaps best known for co-writing BBC Three's sitcom Pulling with actress Sharon Horgan, for co-writing Matilda the Musical with comedian Tim Minchin, and for the controversial Channel 4 conspiracy thriller Utopia.

Early life

Kelly grew up in Barnet, North London, in an Irish family and was brought up a Catholic. One of five children, he left school at 16 to work in Sainsbury's.

While working in supermarkets, he discovered theatre when he joined a local youth group, the Barnet Drama Centre. At the age of 30, he graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London with First Class Honours in Drama and Theatre Arts.

Work

Kelly wrote his first play Debris when he was 30; he says he wrote it imagining he'd give himself a part. Staged at Theatre 503 in 2003, it transferred the next year to Battersea Arts Centre. It was well received and he went on to write the controversially titled Osama the Hero which was produced by Hampstead Theatre, beginning a long-running relationship with the theatre that he would return to often.

Dennis Kelly (American football)

Dennis Andrew Kelly (born January 16, 1990) is an American football offensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). After playing high school football for Marian Catholic in Chicago Heights, Illinois followed by college football for Purdue, he was drafted by the Eagles in the fifth round of the 2012 NFL Draft.

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