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Guy Gallo was a playwright, screenwriter, poet and essayist, and a professor of Screenwriting at Columbia University's School of the Arts and Barnard College, as well as NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

With over a dozen feature screenplays under his belt, four of them produced, Gallo is best known for his adaptation of "Under the Volcano" directed by John Huston and starring Albert Finney.

His book, "Screenwriter's Compass: Character as True North," was published in 2012 by Focal Press.   "It's simply the best book about writing for the screen I've read," wrote Terry Jones, screenwriter of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and "Life of Brian."