Guy, born in Manhattan, was transplanted to Los Angeles in junior high. He graduated cum laude from Wesleyan University in the College of Letters program and later earned his MFA in filmmaking from UCLA. His early short films were prizewinners but he found his professional niche on the literary side of things. He was a studio reader for Tristar and later was a creative exec for Ron Shelton, Roger Spottiswoode, and Jon Davison. He has worked shoulder to shoulder on material with Martin Amis, John Sayles, Paul Verhoeven and others.
At some point he leapt to the other side of the desk and became a film/TV writer. He has written produced episodes of the one-hour TV dramas Walker, Texas Ranger, and Dead Man’s Gun (Writers Guild of Canada Award Nominee). He is also the co-author of Wasp Woman (Roger Corman!) and his latest produced credit was the successful action/thriller Dinoshark on the SyFy Channel. Many of his original screenplays have been optioned.
In 2018 an Academy Award winning writer/director hired Guy to be a “ghost collaborator” on a script for a big budget action film to be shot in China. That’s still in the works so stay tuned (confidential details on request!).
This year Guy and the Haitian novelist Mario Malivert co-wrote the screenplay Taxi Moto, a crime/drama/romance set in contemporary Port-au-Prince.
Guy’s background also encompasses work as a college teacher and fiction writer. His short stories have appeared in SQ Mag(contest prizewinner), The Nonbinary Review, The North Atlantic Review, The London Reader, and elsewhere. He has just competed a novel, Vermont Rocks.
He lives in Los Angeles and is currently working on limited series adaptation of his published short story “Morenci -1904,” which concerns the shocking eruption of racism in an Arizona mining town brought on when Mexican citizens adopted white children from the orphan trains.
Guy, born in Manhattan, was transplanted to Los Angeles in junior high. He graduated cum laude from Wesleyan University in the College of Letters program and later earned his MFA in filmmaking from UCLA. His early short films were prizewinners but he found his professional niche on the literary side of things. He was a studio reader for Tristar and later was a creative exec for Ron Shelton, Roger Spottiswoode, and Jon Davison. He has worked shoulder to shoulder on material with Martin Amis, John Sayles, Paul Verhoeven and others.
At some point he leapt to the other side of the desk and became a film/TV writer. He has written produced episodes of the one-hour TV dramas Walker, Texas Ranger, and Dead Man’s Gun (Writers Guild of Canada Award Nominee). He is also the co-author of Wasp Woman (Roger Corman!) and his latest produced credit was the successful action/thriller Dinoshark on the SyFy Channel. Many of his original screenplays have been optioned.
In 2018 an Academy Award winning writer/director hired Guy to be a “ghost collaborator” on a script for a big budget action film to be shot in China. That’s still in the works so stay tuned (confidential details on request!).
This year Guy and the Haitian novelist Mario Malivert co-wrote the screenplay Taxi Moto, a crime/drama/romance set in contemporary Port-au-Prince.
Guy’s background also encompasses work as a college teacher and fiction writer. His short stories have appeared in SQ Mag(contest prizewinner), The Nonbinary Review, The North Atlantic Review, The London Reader, and elsewhere. He has just competed a novel, Vermont Rocks.
He lives in Los Angeles and is currently working on limited series adaptation of his published short story “Morenci -1904,” which concerns the shocking eruption of racism in an Arizona mining town brought on when Mexican citizens adopted white children from the orphan trains.