Gloria Calderón Kellett

Gloria Calderón Kellett is an award-winning writer, producer, director, actress and activist.

Most notably, she was an executive producer, co-creator, co-showrunner, director and actress on the Emmy-winning sitcom One Day at a Time, an executive producer, creator and showrunner of the critically acclaimed Amazon Original series With Love, and an executive producer on the critically acclaimed Amazon and Blumhouse Television series The Horror of Dolores Roach, based on the hit podcast, reuniting her with star Justina Machado. Her new critically acclaimed play One of the Good Ones was the first Latine commission for the Pasadena Playhouse, the Tony Award-winning official state theatre of California. One of the Good Ones ended its run with the fifth-highest grossing box office in the history of the playhouse. It will next run in 2025 (official theatre announcement coming soon).

The proud daughter of Cuban immigrants, Calderón Kellett graduated from Loyola Marymount University and went on to earn a Masters degree in Theatre from the University of London, Goldsmith’s College. She spent her early years as a writer/ producer on numerous shows, including Devious Maids and How I Met Your Mother. Her acting credits include Jane the Virgin, Angie Tribeca, Dead to Me, Vivo and Your Place or Mine. She also appeared as a narrator on Drunk History (New Orleans). Kellett is also a sought-after director, having directed episodes of How I Met Your Father, Lopez vs. Lopez, One Day at a Time, Mr. Iglesias and the Mad About You revival, among others.

Gloria is a champion for women, the Latino/a/x/e community and other disenfranchised voices. She served for two years as an executive committee member for The Television Academy. She helped 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. Alongside the Latino Film Institute, LACollab and Amazon she also mentored with The Youth Cinema Project to strengthen the Latino pipeline to Hollywood. Her mentor efforts also included 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,” which is her 11-part master class offered for free on YouTube for new writers offering advice at the beginning of their career.

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 US history and will be launching the Celia Cruz quarter, the first US currency to feature an Afro-Latina. 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. 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. Her last show, With Love, boasts a Gold Seal from the EMA for their sustainability efforts. Her ultimate goal is to merge her advocacy with storytelling with the aspiration of leaving a positive impact on the world.

Awards for her work include The Television Academy Honors, Mental Health America Media Award, ALMA Award, Imagen Award, Vanguard Award, NHMC Award, Sentinel Award and The Voice Award. She has also been nominated for a Peabody Award and a Humanitas Prize. Calderón Kellett is also one of the few creatives to have the distinction of receiving a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, for One Day at a Time and With Love. She has been honored as an industry leader by The Hollywood Reporter in their “50 Most Powerful Showrunners” issue, “Top Women in Entertainment” issue, the “THR100 List” issue, the “50 Agents of Change” issue and the “THR Forces for Change” issue, is a consistent figure in the Industry Producer’s Impact Report and People en Español’s Top 20 Latino Leaders in Climate Change, and was just named as one of TIME Magazines Top Latino Leaders in the US.

She currently has several new projects in various stages of development that she can’t talk about just yet, but she promises it’s all very exciting! Stay tuned…