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Yale School of Drama.
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Paul Gallo
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He made his Broadway debut at the age of 27 with Passione, starring Jerry Stiller. Subsequently, he has had the privilege of working with the amazing talents of Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Bradley Cooper, Hugh Jackman, Whoopi Goldberg, Cher, Renée Zellweger, Liam Neeson, Ben Stiller, Victor Garber, Christopher Walken, Stockard Channing, Patti Lupone, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Patrick Stewart, Joanne Woodward, Christopher Plummer, Jessica Tandy, Rex Harrison and Elizabeth Taylor. Gallo was born in New York City near Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, the son of Lola (Morales) Gallo and Albert Gallo who were ballroom dancers in the 1950s.
Gallo attended Ithaca College on an acting scholarship but soon discovered his aptitude for lighting.
He then went on to study lighting with Tom Skelton and Ming Cho Lee as a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. Grown Ups (1981)
Beyond Therapy (1982)
Come Back To The Five And Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1985)
The House of Blue Leaves (1986)
Smile (1986)
City of Angels (1989)
Lend Maine a Tenor (1989)
Six Degrees of Separation (1990)
Crazy for You (1992)
Smokey Joe"s Cafe (1995)
Titanic (1997)
Triumph of Love (1997)
The Civil War (1999)
Three Days of Rain (2006)
A Bronx Tale (2007)
Mauritius (2007)
November (2008)
Wonderland (2011)
Anything Goes (1987)
Guys and Dolls (1992)
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1996)
The Sound Of Music (1998)
The Rocky Horror Show (2000)
42nd Street (2001)
Manitoba Of Louisiana Mancha (2002)
The Crucible (2002)
Pal Joey (2008)
O.C. and Stiggs (1985)
The Comedy Of Errors (1987)
The Manitoba Who Came To Dinner (2000)
Chicago (2002)
for Best Lighting Design:
1986 The House of Blue Leaves
1988 Anything Goes
1990 City of Angels
1992 Crazy for You
1992 Guys and Dolls
2001 42nd Street
2002 The Crucible
2006 Three Days of Rain.
Achievements
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In a career that spans over 3 decades, Gallo has designed over 50 Broadway productions, an achievement matched by only 6 other lighting designers. Gallo has received eight nominations for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design and ten nominations for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design, which he won for the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls. He won the Henry Hewes Design Award, Collaborative Design Achievement-Lighting Design for the Public Theater production of Vienna: Lusthaus in 1986, and was nominated for Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design, for The Crucible (2002). He feels very privileged to have been given the opportunity to work on the Broadway stage but his proudest achievements are his 27-year marriage to his beautiful wife, Jody, and his two wonderful children, Francesca and Nicholas.
