This screenwriter's debut, "Big Night" (1996), was one of the more impressive of the mid-1990s, earning him both good press and public acclaim. Tropiano attended Yale University, where he sang with an a cappella group and performed in several shows. Moving to New York, he attended Columbia University under a Richard Rodgers Scholarship. Tropiano's professional career began in the early 1990s as a public relations writer for THE WASHINGTON POST. He landed a job with an agency that handled TV clients and Tropiano went on to work for Bill Moyers at PBS, for the CBS series "Picket Fences" and on