Kelly Candaele

Kelly Candaele
Born	Vancouver British Columbia
Occupation	politician, writer, documentary filmmaker
Years active	1982-present
Parent(s)	Helen Callaghan, Robert Candaele

Kelly Candaele is a politician, filmmaker, teacher, and writer. For the past fifteen years he has written extensively for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, The Nation and other national publications. While writing for the Los Angeles Times, he traveled to Ireland three times during President Bill Clinton’s attempts to push the Northern Ireland peace process forward. His journalistic work has focused primarily on the political developments in Los Angeles, history, athletics and culture. In addition to Northern Ireland he has worked as a journalist in Great Britain, Brazil, Sweden, Cuba, Spain, Vietnam and India. He has lectured at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Occidental College, and University of California, Irvine. He has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy and Communications at California State University, Chico.

Attended Lompoc High School in Lompoc, California. His brother Casey Candaele is a former Major League Baseball player for the Houston Astros and Montreal Expos.

Kelly Candaele has produced and directed a number of documentary films.

His documentary film A League of Their Own, about his mother’s years as a professional baseball player in the 1940s, was awarded an Emmy as part of a public television series. He wrote the story for the Columbia Pictures feature film about the women’s league which starred Tom Hanks and Madonna. His mother Helen Callaghan was a left-handed center fielder who played five seasons in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and won the batting title in 1945.

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