Gloria Calderon Kellett | |
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Born | April 11 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Loyola Marymount University |
Notable work | One Day At A Time |
Spouse(s) | Dave Kellett |
Gloria Calderón Kellett is an American writer and actress. Kellett is a writer and producer on the CW series iZombie.
She grew up in Beaverton, Oregon and San Diego, California. She graduated from University of San Diego High School in 1993. Kellett graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a BA in Communications and Theater Arts. Kellett also attended courses at the Writers Boot Camp 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 master's degree in Theatre from the 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).
She met cartoonist Dave Kellett, creator of the webcomic Sheldon, in high school. The couple married on February 24, 2001.
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.