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

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, just released its second season. Along with Blumhouse Television, Gloria also executive produced The Horror of Dolores Roach, based on the hit podcast, reuniting her with star Justina Machado.  

The proud daughter of Cuban immigrants, Gloria graduated from Loyola Marymount University and went on to earn a master’s 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, How I Met Your Mother, and Your Place or Mine. She also appeared as a narrator on Drunk History (New Orleans). Gloria 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 is 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, Gloria 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 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, her 11-part master class offered for free on YouTube for new writers offering advice at the beginning of their career.

Gloria is a member of The Creative Coalition, where she fights to support the arts and arts programs by meeting with members of Congress in Washington, DC to encourage their support for the National Endowment for the Arts. She also chairs The Creative Coalition’s 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 U.S. 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 and the Creative Council for Vote Mama Foundation.

As an industry advocate for greening Hollywood, Gloria 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 television. Her ultimate goal is to merge her advocacy with storytelling to leave a positive impact on the world.

Gloria is currently working on the movie Adult Children with Judd Apatow (Universal), as well as the horror comedy feature Bachelor/Bachelorette with Al Madrigal; a comedy feature with Marcello Hernandez called Wedlock Block (Broadway Video); and a new sitcom with Mike Royce called Crowded House (NBC). Her new play, One of the Good Ones, premieres at the Pasadena Playhouse in March, 2024.

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 and a Huminitas. Gloria is 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 Showrunner issue, Top Women in Entertainment issue, the THR100 list issue, the 50 Agents of Change issue. Additionally, Gloria is a consistent figure in the Industry Producer’s Impact Report and was just named as one of TIME magazine’s Top Latino Leaders in the US for 2023.