Steve Galluccio

Steve Galluccio (born October 9, 1960) is a Canadian screenwriter and playwright, most noted for his play Mambo Italiano and its feature film adaptation Mambo Italiano.^[1]

Background

Born and raised in

By 2002, the film adaptation was in the works;[9] directed by Émile Gaudreault, the film premiered in 2003 in both English and French versions.^[10] The film was acted primarily in English and then dubbed into French; as most of its cast were fluently bilingual residents of Montreal, most actors were able to dub their own parts.^[10] It went on to be one of the most internationally successful films in Canadian film history, and the theatrical version became one of the most widely produced Canadian plays of the 21st century.^[11]

Later work

His subsequent credits include the films Surviving My Mother (Comment survivre à sa mère),^[12] Funkytown,^[13] and Little Italy,^[14] the television series Ciao Bella,^[15] and the theatrical plays In Piazza San Domenico^[16] and The St. Leonard Chronicles.^[17]

He has also been involved in the writing and composition of music for his film soundtracks. He received two

In 2012 he published Montréal à la Galluccio, a tourist guide to the city's cafés, restaurants, bars and other cultural amenities, in collaboration with photographer Mathieu Dupuis.[20]

His theatrical play At the Beginning of Time received an online reading from Centaur Theatre in 2020.^[21] The premiere for "At the Beginning of Time" opens at Centaur Theatre directed by renowned Canadian director Peter Hinton-Davis.^[22] The show features set designed by Michael Gianfrancesco with paintings by Montreal artist Daniel Barkley ^[23]

In 2021 he participated in translating the scripts for

Galluccio is openly gay.[25] His husband, Yves Dionne, died of Alzheimer's disease in 2020,^[21] and the challenges of their relationship after his diagnosis form part of the basis for At the Beginning of Time.^[25]

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