Drew Yanno

Drew was born and raised in upstate New York and earned both his undergraduate and law degrees at Syracuse University.

After serving a clerkship in Albany, New York, Drew joined a large law firm in Boston where he worked for several years before founding his own firm. Throughout that time, he also taught law in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.

In 1993, Drew began writing screenplays. Two years later his screenplay NO SAFE HAVEN was purchased by Universal Studios after an eight hour bidding war.

Drew went on to write a number of screenplays, both on spec and for hire.

In 2000, he founded the screenwriting program in the Film Department at Boston College where he taught for eleven years.

In 2006, his book THE THIRD ACT: WRITING A GREAT ENDING TO YOUR SCREENPLAY was published by Continuum International Publishing Group. The new second edition was released in 2016, and it remains the only screenwriting book dedicated to writing the ending of a film and has received praise from countless screenwriters, producers and novelists.

His second book IDEA TO STORY TO SCREENPLAY: A WORKBOOK FOR WRITING THE FIRST DRAFT OF YOUR SCREENPLAY is based on his popular screenwriting classes at Boston College and was released as a Kindle e-book in 2012.

Drew also served for years as a contributing columnist to SCRIPT MAGAZINE, the number one source for screenwriters for more than fifteen years.

In addition to writing, Drew has also worked as a script consultant for a number of writers, producers and directors, including Will Smith and Overbrook Entertainment.

Drew's first novel IN THE MATTER OF MICHAEL VOGEL was published in 2013 and was a best-selling historical thriller in the Kindle store. Kirkus Reviews called it "...page turning ...unique ...(a)n ambitious, cleverly plotted thriller."

Drew's latest thriller THE SMART ONE was published in October of 2016 and received a starred review in Publishers Weekly which called it "an outstanding Hitchcockian thriller."

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