BIO:

Gloria Calderón Kellett is a writer and producer on the CBS series Rules of Engagement. Before that, she was a writer and co-producer on the CBS series, How I Met Your Mother for three seasons, during which she won an Alma Award for Outstanding Script.  A graduate of the Writer's Guild Showrunner Training Program, Gloria has also shot a webseries for 60 Frames called Get Ripped and her first short film, Wounded, which was an official selection in the Geneva Film Festival and The Palm Springs International Short Fest. She is currently writing a feature film for the Mark Gordon Company.

She has written several plays to critical success, including a sold-out run of "In Her Shoes" (2003) at the Hudson Avenue Theatre; "Baggage" (2004), which was workshopped at The Mark Taper Forums LTI: Women’s Workshop and went on to the Hudson Avenue Theatre; "Left Overs" (2005), at the Odyssey Theatre; "Disconnect" (2006) at the Elephant Theater, "Skirts & Flirts" (2006) at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre, "Bedtime Stories" (2007) at The National Comedy Theater, a sold-out run of "Skirts & Flirts" at the Kraine Theatre in NYC, "Snapshots" (2008) at the Pico Playhouse, "Identity Theft" at the Elephant Theatre and "Drinking Games (2009), at the Pico Playhouse.

Gloria graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a BA in Communications and Theater Arts. She 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. Gloria went on to earn a Masters 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). Additionally, 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).

Since her return to Los Angeles, Gloria 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.

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.

She is represented by UTA and Odenkirk/Provissiero Management.

LAST UPDATED 8/02/09