Painkillers
Painkillers
Television (Half-hour)
· Comedy · 28 pages
Status: Spec
A formidable big city doctor risks her career to save her legacy by turning around her cousin’s quirky, backwater Caribbean medical school.
Written by
Anthony Pirro and Tijuana Ricks
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2 Accolades
Accolade Highlights
Semifinalist,
Raindance Script Competition 2025
Semifinalist,
Filmmatic - Inroads Fellowship Season 8
2 Writers
Los Angeles, CA
My brand is underdog adventure.
Former NYC principal and teacher, I dodged a pandemic sized bullet moving to LA in January 2020.
An avid international traveler who studied abroad in Australia, I opened a scuba diving shop in Belize, and co-founded 2 startups.
A dreamer who gets things done, I'm passionate about telling wildly creative a...
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Los Angeles, CA
Tijuana Ricks is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and has performed as an actor in numerous film, television, and stage productions alongside some of the greats in the industry such as Laura Linney, Viola Davis, Paul Giamatti, and Dustin Hoffman. She's an up and coming writer-director who was a Shondaland! Women in Directing Fellowship Finalis...
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Additional Project Info
Series Fest finalist for Pitch-a-thon 2021 Series Fest Belize Writing Lab 2024