Cancer Culture
Cancer Culture
Television (Half-hour)
· Comedy · 32 pages
Status: Spec
Based on the real experiences of Becky Braunstein and Brianna Barrett, Cancer Culture tells the story of an aspiring comedian who faces the possibility of losing her voice forever when she is diagnosed with thyroid cancer and finds unexpected friends in an activity-oriented young adult cancer survivor support group. (It's 'Friends', if the reason th...
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Written by
Becky Braunstein and Brianna Barrett
1 Accolade
Accolade Highlights
Semifinalist,
ScreenCraft Comedy Competition 2023
2 Writers
Los Angeles, CA
Becky grew up on a mountain in Alaska, moved to America after getting metastatic thyroid cancer & almost losing her voice - but she didn’t & now she won’t shut up. She has a special on MGM+, and appears on Chad, Trinkets & Shrill, recently directed a music video & co-wrote an award winning pilot. She competed in the National Spelling Bee, is half fl...
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Santa Monica, CA
Brianna Barrett is a writer, performer and cancer survivor, recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize in Comic Playwriting, twice-voted Portland’s Best Storyteller in Willamette Week and has short plays published by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals and Applause Books. This Portland-born weirdo beat cancer, teaches writing, and has an MFA i...
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Additional Project Info
WINNER - 2022 Yes And Laughter Lab (sponsored by Comedy Central, NBC Universal, and many others)