Kelly grew up in a small Southern town and still says “y’all.” After graduating from Florida State with a BA in Theater, she moved to LA for acting, but after signing her first insanely high rent check, and getting yelled at by an angry customer at Pottery Barn, she realized she needed to get a “real” job.
She worked PR at Comedy Central during the day, and took Groundlings and UCB classes at night, studying improv and sketch. She finally got tired of publicizing how funny other people were, and decided to leap fully into the creative side. She became a writer/performer on multiple sketch teams, including iO West’s first House Sketch team, attained SAG status, and became a Tour Guide at Universal Studios. She earned TV & Feature Film Writing Certificates from UCLA Extension, and an MFA in Writing from Lindenwood University.
Kelly considers herself a “jack of all writing,” and loves writing all genres except Horror – she’ll do it, but she’ll go to bed terrified every night! Her Ancient Egyptian Comedy Adventure “Pyramid Scheme” won The Writers Lab 2022, supported by Meryl Streep & Nicole Kidman, and was recommended to Sundance. The script reached Finals at the Golden Script Competition, Semifinals at Page International, and Semifinals at Austin Film Festival. It’s also won a bunch of other stuff – check out her other scripts & wins on her Good News page, or on her Coverfly.
Her drama feature “Michelangelo vs. Giants” was recently an Academy Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist.
A comedic short she wrote and produced, “The Bachelorette Party,” won “Best Ensemble” at the Austin Comedy Short Film Festival, won 1st Place/Audience Choice at the Universal Studios Film Festival, and was featured on Elizabeth Banks’ WhoHaha site. Check out her Shorts & Web Series page to watch it and others.
Through her MFA studies, she rekindled her love of children’s literature, and adapted her family-friendly (and ScreenCraft quarterfinalist) screenplay “Max & The Underdogs” into a Middle Grade Novel. It will be released in the Summer of 2025, and she’s currently working on a sequel.
Twitter: @KellCamps
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