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 is also producing 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 theater 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 having directed episodes of How I Met Your Father, Lopez vs. Lopez, One Day at a Time, Mr. Iglesias, 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 assisted 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 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 Washington DC and meeting with members of congress to encourage their support for the National Endowment for the Arts and is the chair for 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.

Gloria is also an industry advocate for greening Hollywood and 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 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.

Kimberly is a theater freelance director whose award-winning work has been seen in 15 states and spans 200+ productions. Broadway: 2013 Pulitzer-winning play Disgraced. Other: Manhattan Theatre Club, Audible Theater, Goodman Theatre (Artistic Associate), Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, Huntington, among others.  Film/TV: Chris Gethard: Career Suicide (HBO). Selected Awards: Alan Schneider Award, 2016 TCG Conference, 2016 Special Non-Equity Jeff Award, Finalist, 2013 SDCF Joe A. Callaway Award. www.kimberlysenior.net

Tanya (she/her) designs performance spaces for theater, opera, and immersive experiences. Collaborations include For The People by Larissa FastHorse and Ty Defoe at The Guthrie Theatre; Big Data by Kate Attwelll directed by Pam MacKinnon at ACT; Oedipus directed by Jenny Koons at The Getty Villa; We the Peoples Before directed by Roberta Uno at The Kennedy Center; The Industry’s Sweet Land, an immersive opera directed by Yuval Sharon and Cannupa Hanska Luger at LA State Historic Park; Long Beach Opera’s Voices from a Killing Jar by Kate Soper, directed by Zoe Aja Moore; LEAR by Marcus Gardley, directed by Eric Ting at Calshakes; and The Kind Ones by Miranda Rose Hall, directed by Lisa Peterson at Magic Theatre. She is a member of Wingspace Theatrical Design and an organizing member of La Gente: The Latine Theatre Production Network. She received her MFA in Scenic Design from CalArts and is a recipient of the Princess Grace Fabergé Theatre Award. www.tanyaorellana.com

Denitsa is happy to return to Pasadena Playhouse where she previously designed The Father. Her theater design work has been seen nationwide at venues including the Geffen Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Old Globe Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Kennedy Center, Cleveland Play House, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Boston Court, and others. Denitsa’s work for opera includes productions at Los Angeles Opera, San Diego Opera, and Santa Fe Opera. Costume design credits for other media include films and music videos. Nominations for Outstanding Costume Design: LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award and Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Award. She is the recipient of the 2020 Costume Design Award from the Costume Society of America. Denitsa is a Professor and the Head of the MFA Design and Technology program in the School of Theatre, TV, and Film at SDSU. www.Denitsa.com.

Jaymi is thrilled to return to the Pasadena Playhouse where she previously designed Uncle Vanya, Pygmalion, and Mauritius. She has been designing around the country for the last 30 years at theaters such as Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center, South Coast Repertory, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Alley Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Hartford Stage, Alliance Theatre, Getty Villa Theater, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theater and Lookingglass Theatre Company, among others. Her work also has been seen in China, Italy, Spain, Scotland, and Ireland. She is currently a professor of Lighting Design and the Associate Dean for Student Success at the University of California, Irvine. Her website is jaymismith.com.

At Pasadena Playhouse: Inherit The Wind, The Sound Inside, Miracle On 34th Street, It’s A Wonderful Life. Select credits include Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, and The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in The Universe at the Mark Taper Forum. Elsewhere: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Cleveland Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company (DC), Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center, Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Los Angeles; Geffen Playhouse, The Wallis, A Noise Within, Antaeus Theatre Company, Circle X Theatre, Echo Theater Company, Rogue Machine Theatre, IAMA Theatre. Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award, Stage Raw and LA Drama Critics Circle Award Winner. Jeff can be seen at L.A. Theatre Works where he regularly performs live sound effects. jeffthomasgardner.net.

Andrea (she/they) is a sound designer and composer for theater, film, audio dramas, immersive installations, and more. Select Theatre Credits: Gloria: A life (Off Broadway); The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Composer – Mark Taper Forum); How to Break (Village Theatre); Nina Simone: Four Women (South Coast Repertory); As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale (Dallas Theater Center – Public Works Dallas); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare at Notre Dame). Tours include As Much I Can (ViiV), Lucy Loves Desi (L.A. Theatre Works), and Wild Fire (Denver Center for the Performing Arts). Andrea also produces music and DJ’s under the name Sherpa Slim. @sherpaslim

Pasadena Playhouse debut! Select Chicago credits: Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Twilight Bowl, Relentless (Goodman Theatre); The Burials (Steppenwolf for Young Adults); Constellations, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, The Most…Miz Martha Washington (Steppenwolf Theatre); The Displaced (Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination) (Haven Theatre); First Love is the Revolution (Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination) (Steep Theatre). Select Los Angeles credits: Cabaret, Destiny of Desire, Dial M for Murder (The Old Globe Theatre), Cassils Human Measure (RedCat Theatre), Radical (IAMA Theatre Company). Select Regional credits: There’s Always the Hudson (Woolly Mammoth Theatre); Othello (Dallas Shakespeare Theatre); West Side Story (Lyric Theatre Oklahoma). Select television credits: Intimacy Coordinator for GLOW 3 (Netflix); You 2 (Warner Horizons); Hunters 2 (Amazon); The Summer I Turned Pretty 2 (Apple TV+); Gaslit (NBC Universal). Education: Rachel is an intimacy coordinator on the SAG-AFTRA registry, the founder and CEO of Intimacy Professionals Education Collective (accredited by SAG-AFTRA), and a certified intimacy director and intimacy coordinator with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators. Rachel is a SAG-AFTRA stunt performer, a certified fight director, and fight instructor with the Fight Directors Canada.

Ryan has made significant casting contributions to the film, television, and theater industry. With over a decade of experience working at one of the world’s premiere casting offices, The Telsey Office, Ryan has built a diverse portfolio spanning across various mediums. From big budget studio features to low budget independent films, from network television to streaming television, and live theater. Ryan’s versatility in the world of casting speaks for itself. For the last 8 years, Ryan has cast many theater productions in Los Angeles, including shows at Pasadena Playhouse and the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Their portfolio also includes notable TV and film projects such as the Wicked Movies, This Is Us, Atypical, Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration, And Just Like That.., and Dear Evan Hansen. Ryan puts inclusion and diversity at the heart of everything they do. Their mission is to celebrate and actively advocate for performers who reflect the full spectrum of human diversity to help expand a multiplicity of narratives; narratives that reflect the real world we live in and challenge conventional boundaries that currently exist in the entertainment industry. @rbtcasting

Past Productions here at Pasadena Playhouse include KATE (assistant stage manager), Inherit The Wind, The Sound Inside (assistant stage manager), The Father (assistant stage manager), Stoneface, Defiance, Showtune (The Music of Jerry Herman), and Sisterella to name a few. Over at Center Theatre Group, highlights include Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème, Curtains, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, God of Carnage, Red, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Bent, Zoot Suit, Archduke, Linda Vista, King James, The Old Man and the Pool, The Secret Garden, and A Transparent Musical. Other Los Angeles: Los Angeles Theatre Center in its heyday from 1985–1990, the Geffen Playhouse. Regional: Seattle Rep, Intiman Theatre. New York: Public Theater. Tours: Europe – Quotations from a Ruined City, Law of Remains (with Reza Abdoh’s Dar a Luz company).

Miriam (she/her) is extremely excited to be returning to Pasadena Playhouse. Credits include Inherit the Wind (Pasadena Playhouse); world premiere of Alma, Tambo & Bones (Center Theatre Group – Kirk Douglas Theatre); 2:22 A Ghost Story; The Secret Garden (Center Theatre Group – Ahmanson Theatre); world premiere of A Transparent Musical (Center Theatre Group – Mark Taper Forum); The Half Life of Marie Curie (Theatre SilCo). An El Paso, Texas native, Miriam teaches and works around the Los Angeles area. She has been a company member of New Swan Shakespeare Festival and has worked for the Walt Disney Company’s Imagination Campus (formerly known as Disney Performing Arts). MFA in Stage Management from the University of California, Irvine.