Chris Kelly is currently a staff writer and director for The Onion News Network, which won the 2009 Peabody Award, and earlier this year was a writer on a Comedy Central pilot created by Matt Besser.

Currently at UCB, Chris wrote, directed, and acts in his new one-act play "OH MY GOD, I HEARD YOURE DYING!". He is also the director of Michael Hartneys one-man show, "SO I LIKE SUPERMAN", and is a writer and actor on the Maude Team STONE COLD FOX.

Chris is also a sketch teacher at UCBNY and has performed monologues at ASSSSCAT in both New York and LA. He has written and acted for the Maude Teams 27 KIDNEYS and THUNDER GULCH, directed the ridiculous 2PAC: THE MUSICAL and has written for SKETCH CRAM out at UCBLA.

He also writes an important, revelatory, and stunning blog, which can be found at www.chriskelly.tumblr.com. But you already knew that, as it is open in another tab on your browser right now.

Finally, Chris loves his mother and hates high-fives.

Hometown: Sacramento, CA