John Pollono is best known for writing the 2017 film Stronger and the plays Small Engine Repair and Lost Girls, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2013 and 2015, respectively.
15 Facts About John Pollono
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John Pollono was born May 23,1972, in New Hampshire into a working-class Italian-American family; he has three sisters.
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John Pollono was raised in Londonderry, New Hampshire and graduated from Londonderry High School.
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John Pollono has said that his childhood in New England has greatly influenced his work.
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John Pollono attended the University of New Hampshire, from which he graduated with a Bachelors of Arts in 1994.
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John Pollono moved around the country and worked on writing screenplays part-time, before settling in Los Angeles in 2000.
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John Pollono later became interested in acting and helped to found the Jabberwocky Theatre Company in 2004.
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John Pollono's next produced play was Razorback, which was staged in 2008 at Rogue Machine.
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John Pollono starred as Frank, one of the play's three main characters.
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In 2017, John Pollono joined with other Los Angeles-based playwrights to form the playwriting collective The Temblors.
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John Pollono's character appears in all six episodes of the show.
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In 2014, John Pollono guest starred in an episode of Intelligence.
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In 2016, John Pollono began portraying Tyler, a co-worker of the character Randall in This Is Us.
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In 2014, John Pollono was tapped to write the screenplay for what would become the 2017 film Stronger, which starred Jake Gyllenhaal as Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman.
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In February 2019, it was announced that John Pollono was writing a screenplay based on the life of Hulk Hogan for Netflix.