Gloria Calderón Kellett
Gloria Calderón Kellett is an American writer and actress. Kellett is the co-showrunner of One Day at a Time.
Early life and education
Kellett grew up in Beaverton, Oregon and San Diego, California. She graduated from University of San Diego High School. Kellett graduated from Loyola Marymount University in 1997 with a BA in Communications and Theater Arts. She also attended courses at the in Santa Monica, CA.Kellett was awarded a Kennedy Center/ACTF Achievement in Playwriting Award 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 a MA in Theatre from Goldsmith College, University of London. Her play, When Words Are Many was a finalist for the London Writers Award. Her co-authored play Dance Like No One's Looking won the International Student Playscript Competition, judged and awarded by Sir Alan Ayckbourn. While in London, she worked at the Royal Court Theater and LIFT.
Career
Since her return to Los Angeles, Kellett has been a founding member of the sketch comedy group And Donkey Makes Five, and has written and performed stand-up comedy at The Improv and The Comedy Store. In a successful screenplay collaboration, Kellett's script Passengers and Drivers made it to the semi-finalist round of the first Project Greenlight Competition and she worked for Academy Award-winning writer/director Cameron Crowe on Vanilla Sky.Kellett was a writer, actress, executive story editor, and co-producer on the CBS series, How I Met Your Mother, for which she was won an ALMA Award for Outstanding Script in a Drama or Comedy. She has been a writer and supervising producer and writer on the CBS series, Rules of Engagement, on Lifetime's Devious Maids and on ABC's Mixology, the CW series, iZombie and the ABC series, United We Fall. She is the co-showrunner of One Day at a Time which 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 is helped to pitch the show to other networks to ensure the show did not end.
She has also acted in several shows such as Trophy Wife, Jane the Virgin, Dead to Me, and One Day at a Time.
Her professional directorial debut was on her show One Day at a Time and she has gone on to direct several other episodes. She has also directed for Mr. Iglesias, also on Netflix.
Kellett is also a lecturer in Screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television.
Personal life
Kellett met cartoonist Dave Kellett, creator of the webcomic Sheldon, in high school. The couple married on February 24, 2001.Authored works
Her book, Accessories - 30 Monologues for Women has been translated into Italian and is published by Small Fish Studios in the U.S. and Cassini Press in Italy.Awards
Her awards include: The Television Academy Honors, Mental Health America Media Award, American Latino Media Arts Award, Imagen Award, Vanguard Award, National Hispanic Media Coalition Impact Award, Sentinel Award, and The Voice Award.| Awards Show | Category | Description |
| Primetime Emmy Awards 2018 | Nominee Primetime Emmy | Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series Patricia Barnett For episode "Not Yet" |
| Primetime Emmy Awards 2017 | Nominee Primetime Emmy | Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series Patricia Barnett For episode "A Snowman's Tale" |
| 77th Annual Peabody Awards | Nominee Peabody Award | One Day At A Time |
| American Latino Media Arts Award 2018 | Winner ALMA Award | One Day At A Time |
| Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2019 | Nominee Critics Choice Award | Best Comedy Series |
| Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association 2019 | Nominee Dorian Award | Unsung TV Show of the Year |
| GLAAD Media Awards 2018 | Nominee GLAAD Media Award | Outstanding Comedy Series |
| Imagen Foundation Awards 2018 | Winner Imagen Award | Best Primetime Program - Comedy |
| Imagen Foundation Awards 2017 | Winner Imagen Award | Best Primetime Television Program - Comedy |
| National Hispanic Media Coalition Impact Award 2018 | Winner NHMC Award | One Day At A Time |
| Online Film & Television Association 2017 | Nominee OFTA Television Award | Best Comedy Series and Best Direction in a Comedy Series |
| People's Choice Awards, USA 2018 | Nominee People's Choice Award | Favorite Revival Show |
| Television Critics Association Awards 2018 | Nominee TCA Award | Outstanding Achievement in Comedy |
| The Voice Award 2018 | Winner The Vocie Award | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Depression Storyline |
| Sentinel Award 2018 | Winner Sentinel Award | One Day At A Time for story line on mental health |