[1] He worked on Letterman as a contributing writer for several years before he left to pursue writing film screenplays full-time.
[5] Galletta's first screenplay, Toy's House, was written as the thesis of his degree at Columbia University.
[1] Elements of the screenplay are based on Galetta's experiences as a youth living on Staten Island, but the producers of the film changed the location to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, a move that Galetta endorsed for giving the story "an 'any town' type of feel.
"[1] Galletta has also managed to sell a pitch for a screenplay to New Line Cinema, which he described as "an action comedy set in Rio de Janeiro".
[1] The story was co-written with Todd Strauss-Schulson, who is also slated to direct the film, although Galletta was hired to write the script individually.