Gloria Calderón Kellett
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Gloria Calderon Kellett | |
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| Born | April 11, 1975 |
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| Notable work | One Day at a Time |
| Spouse | Dave Kellett (m. 2001) |
| Children | 2 |
Gloria Calderón Kellett is an award-winning writer, producer, director and actress.
She is best known as the executive producer, co-creator, co-showrunner, director, and actress on the critically acclaimed sitcom One Day at a Time. Her Amazon Original series, With Love, is the first series coming out of an overall deal between her company, Glonation and Amazon Studios. Both shows have received 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Along with Blumhouse Television and Spotify, Glonation is also producing The Horror of Dolores Roach based on the hit Gimlet podcast.
The proud 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 numerous shows including Devious Maids, Rules of Engagement, and How I Met Your Mother. Her acting credits include Jane the Virgin, Angie Tribeca, Dead to Me, How I Met Your Mother, and One Day at a Time. She also appeared as a narrator on Drunk History (New Orleans). In directing, Calderón Kellett has worked on episodes of One Day at a Time, Mr. Iglesias, Merry Happy Whatever, United We Fall, and the Mad About You revival. Her first feature film We Were There, Too co-written by Natasha Rothwell is set up at HBO Max.
She is an ambassador for the non-profit ReFrame and launched a "Hollywood 101" web series with Buzzfeed's PeroLike. The series offers free advice to new artists at the beginning of their entertainment careers.
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. [1]
Early life and education
Kellett was born in Portland, Oregon on April 11, 1975. She is Cuban in ancestry.[2] 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.[3] She also attended courses at the Writers Boot Camp in Santa Monica, CA.[4]
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 (Waterstone's Prize). 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 (the London International Festival of Theatre).[5]
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 (episode "The Wedding Bride"), 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 helped to pitch the show to other networks to ensure the show did not end.[6]
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.[7] She has also directed for Mr. Iglesias, also on Netflix.[8]
Kellett is also a lecturer in Screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television.[9]
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 |
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| 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 (GALECA) 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 Voice Award |
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Depression Storyline
(Season 2) |
| Sentinel Award 2018 | Winner
Sentinel Award |
One Day At A Time for story line on mental health |
References
- ^ "IMDB Gloria Calderon Kellett". IMDb. IMDB. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
- ^ Peláez, Ana Sofía (January 26, 2017). "This woman gave 'One Day At A Time' its bicultural, Latino flavor". NBC News. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
- ^ Millers Younger, Sandra. "Gloria Calderón Kellett '97". LMU Magazine. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "Writers Boot Camp". Archived from the original on 2016-09-11. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
- ^ "Gloria Calderón Kellett - Loyola Marymount University". Archived from the original on 2019-02-25. Retrieved 2019-02-25.
- ^ Villarreal, Yvonne (March 1, 2019). "'One Day at a Time's' Gloria Calderón Kellett on being the boss and the Netflix numbers game". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
- ^ Turchiano, Danielle (June 5, 2018). "'One Day at a Time' Co-Creator on 'Creating Room for Everyone'". Variety. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ Simon, Rachel (2019-01-03). "10 Directors Discuss "Making It" In Hollywood When They Thought They Couldn't". Bustle. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "Meet the SFTV Faculty". Loyola Marymount University. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
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