Exclusive Video: Gloria Calderón Kellett and Kimberly Senior Talk ONE OF THE GOOD ONES

Hi Broadway world! I'm Gloria Calderon Kellett. I'm Kimberly Sr. I'm the director of Gloria's

amazing play, One of the Good Ones, at the Old Globe in San Diego. It's about bringing home

someone for the first time, which is like a classic trope in American theater and this

particular family through this Latino lens who are affluent, who live in Pasadena, who their

daughter is bringing somebody home for the first time and there's a lot of surprises. There are a

generational relationships some of the greatest comedy actually comes between the generations which

I really love it's my favorite thing my favorite thing to write I feel like we never stopped working

on it because we've had this wonderful opportunity here at the globe to be able to revisit in several

workshops over the years so basically from when we closed it last year to now we've had all these

great chances and to hear so many different voices and you know I can say that I believe Gloria's

play is going to join the canon of incredible American plays. It deserves to win a Pulitzer

It captures an American moment. And I think what we've learned over these two productions

is how strong the play is and how much it resonates in more than one community

I very excited to do the play here in San Diego which is even closer to our current Mexican border And with the population here coming to see the play it going to be so exciting as it was exciting to make it in Pasadena where it takes place

I went to classes in Junior Theater here in San Diego when I was 14, 15 years old

And my mom worked downtown San Diego, and she would drop me off here, and I would just dream that one day I would have a play at the Old Globe

And so to be here now making it for this community that I also love so much

for San Diegans to come out and see it is really meaningful. I think for people that have seen it before

there are fun new surprises. I also think this play to look for when you're coming to see it is

I think, who do you identify with for sure? But also, like, I find allegiances switch back and forth

I'm like, oh, I agree with you. Oh, no, no, no, I agree with you. And so, and I think that happens with the characters on stage

and also as an audience member, sort of whose side you're on at any given moment

I think is very clear in this production. I will say in the writing of it, as is true in life

I feel like we have such a deep desire for things to be black and white and to be simple, and they're not

And so for this, I really wanted each character to also, in my mind

be right and wrong in different places. And to show the humanity of that, that there's no person that knows everything

or is walking this world perfectly and we kind of need to hold each other accountable What I hear so much is oh well I just we just the family just doesn talk about that And every time I

hear that it makes me hurt. It's painful. Because I understand you want to keep the peace, it's your

family, you guys, everyone has to live their lives, but oh what a missed opportunity to not have hard

conversations with the people that you love because if you can't do it there, how are we

going to do it out in the world? It used to be a line in the play. Was it? Yeah, it's not there

anymore. When you just said it, I was like, where have I heard that before? Oh, because it used to be a line in the play. If we can't do it here with this family, how are we going to do it

No, that's a question that everyone who lives in this country gets to ask. And what does that

actually mean? Because we are living in a moment where we're reshaping what the phrase American

dream means that's right everything feels completely like excavated at the moment and now

we get to like reassemble these pieces yeah into what the meaning of america is which is why i

believe this play is a part of the like cultural fabric of it's asking the questions that we're all

asking and i think comedy is a fun place to explore these difficult things because it makes it i think

easier for people to sit through the hard conversations because they also laughing They laughing So it gives permission it like softens us up so that we can maybe receive this information and think about it in a way that we don feel on alert

Clearly the play feels more political right now. It does. It also creates community. It requires this audience

which is going to inevitably have diversity in it. And when we're all laughing together

with people who... It happens. It's beautiful. People who don't look like us

or didn't come from where we come from. And we share this moment. and we're connected to them

I really do think that it is very bonding to be in the audience of this play

It's funny because I had a meeting today and people were talking about AI and I thought, you know where AI can't exist

is live theater. We have to have this experience live with one another

and there's something really raw and really human about gathering together to experience human beings on stage saying things

It's really thrilling to be able to have that experience and have that conversation

and we're excited to hear what people say after. We're excited to hear about the conversations that happen when you guys are in your cars going home and tweet at us or whatever

Is anyone on Twitter anymore? Instagram. I don't know. Hey, Old Globe. No, that's where we are

Hey, Broadway world. We're inviting you to come out and see one of the good ones in San Diego at the Old Globe Theater until June 22nd

See you here