Vanessa Ramos

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Vanessa Ramos
Alma mater Texas State University
OccupationWriter Television producer
Known forCreator of Blockbuster

Vanessa Ramos is an American television writer and producer. She created the American workplace comedy television series Blockbuster, [1] which premiered on Netflix in November 2022 but its season 2 was cancelled the following month. [2] She's previously written for shows like Superstore , Bordertown , Crashing and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Biography

Ramos grew up in San Antonio. She graduated from Texas State University and moved to Los Angeles where she worked at the box office of the improv theater iO West. She eventually started stand-up comedy. She was contracted to write jokes for comedians making TV appearances, and joined the staff of Comedy Central Roast . [3]

She was a writer of the workplace comedy Superstore alongside Sierra Teller Ornelas. [4]

In April 2021, she signed a deal with Universal Television to produce a single-camera workplace comedy, [5] the series Blockbuster, which ran on Netflix [1] but was cancelled after one season. [2] The irony of running on Netflix a show about Blockbuster - whose demise was partly caused by Netflix - was part of the advertising twist about the series. [3] She said she heavily relied on her previous experience writing Brooklyn Nine-Nine for Luke Del Tredici and Dan Goor to create the story-line of Blockbuster. [6]

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