Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Kelcey Watson is a highly skilled, classically trained stage and film actor, He attended The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) in New York City in 2001. In 2004 he received a scholarship to attend "The School" at Steppenwolf in Chicago. And for 10 years has worked with John Beasley, ( Everwood (2002) The Soul Man (2012) Walking Tall (2004) The Purge: Anarchy (2014) at the John Beasley Theater and Workshop specializing in African American plays or adaptions of other popular plays with African American casts. He has done numerous films and stage plays and continues to explore measures of being an artist and engages the challenges and joys that come with it.