Steve Galluccio is a Canadian screenwriter. His credits include the films Mambo Italiano (based on his play Mambo Italiano), Surviving My Mother and Funkytown, and the television series Ciao Bella. He has also been involved in the writing and composition of music for his film soundtracks, garnering two Genie Award nominations for Best Original Song: for Mambo Italiano's "Montréal Italiano" in 2004, and for Funkytown's "Waiting for Your Touch" in 2011.Galluccio is openly gay.
[on 'Funkytown'] I was a disco guy in the '70s. I loved watching 'American Bandstand' and looking at people dancing all these different dances, like the Hustle and the Elevator. It was all about the glamour; it was about feeling like you were a star for that one night. But there's also the other side - what happens when the lights come up.
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I was like, wow, this is unbelievable. I mean, you guys get paid, you guys have agents, you've got premieres, you've got major coverage in the paper, you've got people coming and encouraging you and not pissing on you all the time. And I said, this is where I want to be. [on switching from English to French-language theatre in Montreal]
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Currently writing all the episodes for a television series he has co-created, Ciao Bella. [February 2003]
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