John Belluso

November 13, 1969 (age 36)

Warwick, Rhode Island

He also directed a writing program for disabled people. Born in Warwick, Rhode Island, he began using a wheelchair at the age of 13 due to a bone disease, Camurati-Engelmann syndrome. In 2001, he wrote The Body of Bourne, based on the life of Randolph Bourne, a World War I pacifist and author lieutenant was produced in Los Angeles by the Mark Taper Forum. He also directed the Forum"s Other Voices program for writers with a disability. After that, he wrote Pyretown, which criticises America"s managed care health system through a romance between a divorced mother and a young, wheelchair-using manitoba A stream of other works also emerged, including: The Rules of Charity, in which the resentful caregiver adult daughter of a wheelchair user with cerebral palsy tries to rebel against the care-giving, and pursue her own desires, with variously disastrous consequences; Gretty Good Time, about a 32-year-old disabled woman living in a nursing home; Travelling Skin, about a waitress with cerebral palsy; Henry Flamethrowa, about a comatose woman who is believed to cause miracles. And A Nervous Smile, about the parents of a severely disabled child who consider abandoning her. Belluso joined the crew of the Home Box Office western drama Deadwood as a writer for the first season in 2004, writing "The Trial of Jack McCall". He died in February 2006 in New York City, where he was writing a play for New York"s Public Theater about a disabled veteran returning from Iraq. Season 1, episode 17, of Ghost Whisperer is dedicated to his memory.

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He completed both Bachelors and Masters degrees at New York University"s Tisch School of the Arts Dramatic Writing program

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He also directed a writing program for disabled people. Born in Warwick, Rhode Island, he began using a wheelchair at the age of 13 due to a bone disease, Camurati-Engelmann syndrome. In 2001, he wrote The Body of Bourne, based on the life of Randolph Bourne, a World War I pacifist and author

lieutenant was produced in Los Angeles by the Mark Taper Forum.

He also directed the Forum"s Other Voices program for writers with a disability. After that, he wrote Pyretown, which criticises America"s managed care health system through a romance between a divorced mother and a young, wheelchair-using manitoba

A stream of other works also emerged, including:

The Rules of Charity, in which the resentful caregiver adult daughter of a wheelchair user with cerebral palsy tries to rebel against the care-giving, and pursue her own desires, with variously disastrous consequences;

Gretty Good Time, about a 32-year-old disabled woman living in a nursing home;

Travelling Skin, about a waitress with cerebral palsy;

Henry Flamethrowa, about a comatose woman who is believed to cause miracles. And

A Nervous Smile, about the parents of a severely disabled child who consider abandoning her.

Belluso joined the crew of the Home Box Office western drama Deadwood as a writer for the first season in 2004, writing "The Trial of Jack McCall".

He died in February 2006 in New York City, where he was writing a play for New York"s Public Theater about a disabled veteran returning from Iraq. Season 1, episode 17, of Ghost Whisperer is dedicated to his memory.

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