J. Kelly Nestruck is the television critic for The Globe and Mail.
Previously, he was the newspaper’s theatre critic from 2008 to 2024 - a period that saw the premieres of Kim’s Convenience and Come From Away and the entire performing arts scene shuttered by governments due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During that time, Nestruck was a four-time winner of the Nathan Cohen Award for Excellence in Critical Writing and spent a stint in Berlin as guest critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
In 2018, Nestruck broke one of Canada’s major #MeToo stories - reporting on four actresses who launched civil suits against a founder of a Toronto theatre company.
Before joining the Globe, Nestruck worked in arts and entertainment journalism at The Guardian (in London, UK) and at the National Post. He grew up shuttling back and forth between Montreal and Winnipeg - both great cities for arts and culture.
