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J. Kelly NestruckJames Kelleher Nestruck (/ˈnɛsˌtrʌk/ 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] Life and careerNestruck 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] References
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