BILL GULLO

Bill's writing life began on cocktail napkins in the city of New Orleans. His interest in fiction turned toward screenwriting when he adapted his unpublished novella into Redmond, a feature screenplay that won Best Screenplay at the IFP Market in New York City. His next script, The Long Blue Yonder, was a semi-finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship, selected for the Black List, and eventually optioned and sold. He hasn’t stopped writing since.

His screenplay, Bastard, attracted Martin Scorsese to executive produce in 2018, with Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto directing and Topic Studios financing. Despite all the name-dropping, the film stalled and is now resting on Bill's shelf.

His first produced feature, +1, directed by Dennis Iliadis (The Last House on the Left), was a NY Times Critic's Pick, and he wrote the screenplay for The Quitter which the NY Times called "a textured, heartfelt drama."

He’s been a visiting professor of screenwriting and serial storytelling at multiple universities including NYU, and he served as Associate Director of Almanack Screenwriters, where he helped find and support emerging storytellers for the screen.

In 2025, he founded Storytellers Social Club as a way to provide social and professional opportunities for hard working humans across all creative disciplines.

He has also worked as an elevator man and one of the worst bartenders ever.