Writer / Creator / Storyteller
Screenwriter & Creator
■ Los Angeles, CA
Stories about what you lose when you cross a border and who you become on the other side.
■ 2025
About
David M. Ramirez is a Colombian-born, Miami-raised television writer and NYU Tisch alumnus whose work lives at the intersection of Latin identity, family trauma, and genre.
A 2020 graduate of the Walt Disney Television Writers Program, he sold and developed Los Leyendas with Disney General Entertainment. He has staffed on Disney Channel's Gabby Duran and the Unsittables and Nickelodeon's reboot of The Rugrats, and got his start as a writer's assistant on CBS's Evil and The Good Fight, with earlier stints at Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
His scripts range from Everglades survival horror to queer coming-of-age drama to culture-clash comedy. All stories about what you lose when you cross a border, and who you become on the other side.
Projects & Credits
Original Pilot / Horror Comedy
Disney General Entertainment
Sold and developed with Disney General Entertainment. An original horror-comedy pilot rooted in Latin American folklore and mythology.
Pilot SaleStaff Writer
Disney Channel
Staffed on the Disney Channel live-action comedy series. Contributed to story breaking and episode writing for the network's family audience.
StaffedStaff Writer
Nickelodeon
Staffed on Nickelodeon's revival of the beloved animated series, contributing to the reimagining of one of animation's most iconic franchises for a new generation.
StaffedWriter's Assistant
CBS / Paramount+
Began his TV career as a writer's assistant on two of CBS's flagship drama series, learning the craft at the table with some of the industry's sharpest voices.
Writer's Asst.Production
NBC / Broadway Video
Early career production experience at one of television's most storied live comedy institutions.
ProductionProduction
NBC / Jimmy Fallon
Early career production experience at NBC's flagship late night program, developing a foundation in fast-paced, high-volume television production.
ProductionPress & Links
Writing
Published
On writing The Little Fiery Coal, why kids carry more pressure than we give them credit for, and what it means to tell a story for the youngest readers in the room.
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Plot is what happens. Character is who it happens to. But theme is why any of it matters. On writing toward something true, and why a character arc without a thematic spine is just motion.
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For a long time I wrote around the things that scared me most. Faith, identity, what it means to belong to something larger than yourself. On finally writing toward the questions I've been carrying my whole life.
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