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, ''

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'', is the first series coming out of an overall deal between her company, Glonation and

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. Both shows have received 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Along with Blumhouse Television and Spotify, Glonation is also producing ''

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'' 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 ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. Her acting credits include ''

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'', ''

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'', '' 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'', ''

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'', '' United We Fall'', and the ''

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'' revival. Her first feature film ''We Were There, Too'' co-written by

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is set up at

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. She is an ambassador for the non-profit

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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 ''

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'' in their Top Women in Entertainment issue, the THR100 list issue, and their 50 Agents of Change issue.

Early life and education

Kellett was born in

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on April 11, 1975. She is

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in ancestry. Kellett grew up in

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and

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. She graduated from

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. Kellett graduated from

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in 1997 with a BA in Communications and

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. She also attended courses at th
Writers Boot Camp
in

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. Kellett was awarded a

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/ACTF Achievement in

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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

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. While in

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, she worked at the Royal Court Theater and LIFT (the London International Festival of Theatre).

Career

Since her return to

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, Kellett has been a founding member of the sketch comedy group ''And Donkey Makes Five'', and has written and performed

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and

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. In a successful

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collaboration, Kellett's

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''Passengers and Drivers'' made it to the semi-finalist round of the first

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Competition and she worked for

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-winning writer/director

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on ''

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''. Kellett was a writer, actress (episode "

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"), executive story editor, and co-producer on the

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series, ''

'', for which she was won an

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for Outstanding

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in a

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. She has been a writer and supervising producer and writer on the

series, ''

'', on Lifetime's ''

'' and on

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'', the CW series, '' iZombie'' and the

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. She has also acted in several shows such as ''

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'', ''

'', '' 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

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, creator of the webcomic ''

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'', 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

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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.

References

External links

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