James Kelleher Nestruck ( ; styled as J. Kelly Nestruck) is a Canadian journalist and theatre critic. He is currently the chief theatre critic for ''

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Life and career

Nestruck was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was raised in Montreal. He is bilingual. Nestruck began writing for the ''

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'', 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 ''

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'' as a reporter in 2003. He moved to feature writing shortly after. In 2006, Nestruck became a

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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, and in 2013, he was a runner-up for a National Newspaper Award in the Arts and Entertainment category. 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.

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