Gloria Calderón Kellett is an award-winning writer, producer, director and actress. She was an executive producer, co-creator, co-showrunner, director, and actress on the Emmy-winning sitcom One Day at a Time. Her critically acclaimed Amazon Original series With Love is the first series coming out of an overall deal between her company, Glonation and Amazon Studios. Along with Blumhouse Television and Spotify, Glonation also produces The Horror of Dolores Roach, based on the hit Gimlet podcast, reuniting her with star Justina Machado.
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 and How I Met Your Mother. Her acting credits include Jane the Virgin, Angie Tribeca, Dead to Me, How I Met Your Mother
Gloria Calderón Kellett is an award-winning writer, producer, director and actress. She was an executive producer, co-creator, co-showrunner, director, and actress on the Emmy-winning sitcom One Day at a Time. Her critically acclaimed Amazon Original series With Love is the first series coming out of an overall deal between her company, Glonation and Amazon Studios. Along with Blumhouse Television and Spotify, Glonation also produces The Horror of Dolores Roach, based on the hit Gimlet podcast, reuniting her with star Justina Machado.
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 and How I Met Your Mother. Her acting credits include Jane the Virgin, Angie Tribeca, Dead to Me, How I Met Your Mother, and Your Place Or Mine. She also appeared as a narrator on Drunk History (New Orleans). Kellett is also a sought-after director, directing 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.
Calderón Kellett is a champion for women, the Latino/a/x/e community, and other disenfranchised voices. She is an executive committee member of The Television Academy. She assisted Amazon Studios in supporting its inaugural Inclusion Playbook - providing a template for making content inclusively and responsibly. Her advocacy includes being a founding member of the UNTITLED LATINX PROJECT, a group of Latine showrunners 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; she is also the chair of 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.
Calderón Kellett is also an industry advocate for greening Hollywood and has partnered with Scriptation to develop 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.
