Gloria Calderón Kellett

Gloria Calderon Kellett
Born	(1975-04-11)April 11, 1975 Portland, Oregon
Education	Loyola Marymount University Goldsmiths, University of London
Notable work	One Day at a Time
Spouse	Dave Kellett(m. 2001)
Children	2

Gloria Calderón Kellettis an American writer, producer, director and actress.

She is best known as the executive producer, co-creator, co-showrunner, director, and actress on the sitcomOne Day at a Time.Her Amazon Original series,With Love,is the first series coming out of a deal between her company, Glonation andAmazon Studios.Along with Blumhouse Television and Spotify, Glonation is also producingThe Horror of Dolores Roachbased on the Gimlet podcast.

The daughter of Cuban immigrants, Calderón Kellett graduated from Loyola Marymount University and went on to earn a master's degree in Theatre from the University of London. She spent her early years as a writer/producer on shows includingDevious Maids,Rules of Engagement,andHow I Met Your Mother.Her acting credits includeJane the Virgin,Angie Tribeca,Dead to Me,How I Met Your Mother,andOne Day at a Time.She also appeared as a narrator onDrunk History (New Orleans).In directing, Calderón Kellett has worked on episodes ofOne Day at a Time,Mr. Iglesias,Merry Happy Whatever,United We Fall,and theMad About Yourevival. Her first feature filmWe Were There, Tooco-written byNatasha Rothwellis set up atHBO Max.

Early life and education

Kellett was born inPortland, Oregonon April 11, 1975. She isCubanin ancestry.Kellett grew up inBeaverton, OregonandSan Diego, California.She graduated fromUniversity of San Diego High School.Kellett graduated fromLoyola Marymount Universityin 1997 with aBAin Communications andTheater Arts.She also attended courses at theWriters Boot CampinSanta Monica, CA.

Kellett was awarded aKennedy Center/ACTF Achievement inPlaywritingAward for her first play,Plane Strangers,which also went on to win the Del Rey Players Achievement in Playwriting Award, and the LMU Playwright of the Year Award. Kellett went on to earn anMAin Theatre fromGoldsmith College, University of London.Her play,When Words Are Manywas a finalist for theLondon Writers Award(Waterstone's Prize). Her co-authored playDance Like No One's Lookingwon the International Student Playscript Competition, judged and awarded by SirAlan Ayckbourn.While inLondon,she worked at theRoyal Court Theaterand LIFT (the London International Festival of Theatre).

Career

Since her return toLos Angeles,Kellett has been a founding member of the sketch comedy groupAnd Donkey Makes Five,and has written and performedstand-up comedyatThe ImprovandThe Comedy Store.In a successfulscreenplaycollaboration, Kellett'sscriptPassengers and Driversmade it to the semi-finalist round of the firstProject GreenlightCompetition and she worked forAcademy Award-winning writer/directorCameron CroweonVanilla Sky.

Kellett was a writer, actress (episode "The Wedding Bride"), executive story editor, and co-producer on theCBSseries,How I Met Your Mother,for which she was won anALMA Awardfor OutstandingScriptin aDramaorComedy.She has been a writer and supervising producer and writer on theCBSseries,Rules of Engagement,onLifetime'sDevious Maidsand onABC'sMixology,theCWseries,iZombieand theABCseries,United We Fall.She is the co-showrunner ofOne Day at a Timewhich was released on Netflix for the first three seasons, and is currently airing its fourth season on Pop TV. Along with the other writers, producers and the cast, she helped to pitch the show to other networks to ensure the show did not end.

She has also acted in several shows such asTrophy Wife,Jane the Virgin,Dead to Me,andOne Day at a Time.

Her professional directorial debut was on her showOne Day at a Timeand she has gone on to direct several other episodes.She has also directed forMr. Iglesias,also on Netflix.

Kellett is also a lecturer in Screenwriting atLoyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television.

Advocacy

Gloria is a champion for women, the Latino/a/x/e community and other disenfranchised voices. She is an executive committee member for The Television Academy. She assisted Amazon in supporting their inaugural Inclusion Playbook - providing a template for how to make content in an inclusive and responsible way. Her advocacy includes being a founding member of the UNTITLED LATINX PROJECT, a group of Latine show runners who advocate on behalf of the Latine community (by such efforts as the Dear Hollywood initiative) to help studios identify ways to support and tell Latine stories. As an ambassador for the non-profit ReFrame, which celebrates and encourages gender parity in front of and behind the camera and a partner with the Latinx House/Adelante she supported up and coming Latina directors and DPs by having them shadow on the set of With Love on Season 2. Alongside the Latino Film Institute, LACollab and Amazon she also mentors with The Youth Cinema Project to strengthen the Latino pipeline to Hollywood. Her mentor efforts also include working with the Pillars Artist Fellows, co-founded by Riz Ahmed to support Muslim writers and directors. To offer free advice to new artists at the beginning of their careers, she partnered with Buzzfeed's Perolike to release a web series titled: “Hollywood 101”.

She is a member of The Creative Coalition where she fights to support the arts and arts programs by going to DC and meeting with members of congress to encourage their support for the National Endowment for the Arts and is the chair for their Pay Gap Initiative which gives grants of 10k to entry level BIPOC candidates to help them start their Hollywood journey. As an Ambassador for the National Women's History Museum, she is focused on highlighting the countless untold stories of women throughout history. As a part of the Celebrity Ambassador Cabinet for The National Hispanic Media Coalition, she supports their woman-led non-profit civil and human rights organization founded to eliminate hate, discrimination, and racism toward the Latino community. She's also a part of the Creative Council for Emily's List which is the nation's largest resource dedicated to electing Democratic women to office and the Creative Council for Vote Mama Foundation which is the leading source of research and analysis about the political participation of moms.

Gloria is also an industry advocate for greening Hollywood and has partnered with Scriptation to come up with solutions to make a positive environmental impact and reduce Hollywood's carbon footprint while also advocating for stories about the environment on TV.

Awards for her work include The Television Academy Honors, The Geffen TrailBlazer Award, Mental Health America Media Award, ALMA Award, Imagen Award, Vanguard Award, NHMC Award, Sentinel Award, and The Voice Award. She has been honored as an industry leader by The Hollywood Reporter in their Top Women in Entertainment issue, the THR100 list issue, and their 50 Agents of Change issue.

Personal life

Kellett met cartoonistDave Kellett,creator of the webcomicSheldon,in high school. The couple married on February 24, 2001.

Authored works

Her book,Accessories - 30 Monologues for Womenhas been translated into Italian and is published by Small Fish Studios in the U.S. and Cassini Press inItaly.

External links

• Gloria Calderón KellettatIMDb