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Television (Half-hour)
· Comedy · 34 pages
Life gets complicated for a gay Afro-Latino drug dealer in Bed-Stuy when he falls for a closeted police officer. A queer Black RAMY meets LOVE LIFE.
Written by
Dallas Rico
4 Accolades
Accolade Highlights
Finalist,
WeScreenplay TV Pilot Lab 2019
Quarterfinalist,
ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2020
Recommended by ScreenCraft (Coverage)
1 Writer
N Hollywood, California
Dallas Rico, originally from — you guessed it — Dallas, TX, graduated from U.T. Austin with a degree in Film & Television, and spent several years as a high school Spanish teacher while honing his voice as a writer. His work nimbly moves between genres, and through it he seeks to celebrate black, queer, and blerd culture. Most recently, Dallas sold ...
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Dallas’s voice is the perfect intersection of his own black queer identity and his relentless fandom of comic books, video games, and the like. He has experience in the writers room at HBO, and has garnered interest in his feature from Amazon. With strong TV samples, and a strong business sense, we recommend him to literary managers or agents looking for a driven writer.
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Coverfly VP of Development
Additional Project Info
A dramedy tonally similar to FX's Atlanta and Dave.