River Gallo (they/them) is a GLAAD award-winning Salvadoran-American filmmaker, actor, writer, model and intersex activist from New Jersey. They are a recipient of the 2019 GLAAD Media Rising Star Award, the 2020 Ryan Murphy HALF Initiative for television directing, and was selected as a 2021 Berlinale Talent fellow. River is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Experimental Theatre Wing and the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts MFA program."Ponyboi" which they wrote, starred in, and co-directed with Sadé Clacken Joseph premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival where it was named one of the "Five not to be missed short films" by Forbes. "Ponyboi" is the first narrative film created by and starring an out intersex person in cinema history. Executive produced by Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson.River was named one of the "Most Exciting Queer People to Follow in 2019" by Out Magazine, PAPER Magazine's list of "100 People Taking Over 2019", and were the cover star of the 2019 Fall/Winter issue UK Hunger Magazine shot by RANKIN. In 2020 they starred in an episode of Hulu's "Love, Victor". They are developing "Ponyboi" as a feature film which they are attached to write and star, produced by actor Ezra Miller.