A 3 time NCAA All American soccer player at Hofstra University in New York, Tony was 5th round draft choice by the New York Cosmos as a freshman and junior and a 1st round draft choice his senior year. A high school English teacher in the Hamptons for most of his life he sold his first script ever written The Suburbans (1999) on the advice of a friend to Sony/Columbia Pictures in 1998 after never having seen a script before that. Has done re-write assignments on several high profile movies since 1998. Tony was photographed by Bruce Weber for GQ Magazine throughout the 80s and briefly modeled for the Zoli Agency in New York City.