Community College Student Horrified to Discover His Screenwriting Teacher Never Sold a Script 0 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 0 user reviews.

A Glendale Community College student was devastated to learn that his screenwriting instructor, Professor Jerome Conway, had never actually sold a screenplay in his life. The 57-year-old Conway, who has taught Introduction to Screenwriting 101 for the last 15 years at Glendale Community College, was eventually exposed by his student.

“This truly is my ‘all is lost’ moment.” said Steve Purvis, referring to the point in a screenplay where the character’s world falls apart. “I feel like everything he ever taught me was a sham.”

Purvis first became suspicious that Prof. Conway never sold a screenplay when he caught him writing a desperate query letter to a boutique literary agency located in the San Fernando Valley, seeking representation. After an extensive Internet search, Purvis could not find any record of Conway ever selling a screenplay in Hollywood or any other place, for that matter

An angry Purvis then confronted his teacher about his suspicions, but Prof. Conway claimed he had in fact been hired to do numerous uncredited rewrites on such films as “Corky Romano,” “The Adventures of Pluto Nash,” and “The Love Guru.” Still unconvinced, Purvis demanded to see Conway’s Writers Guild of America card and that’s when the teacher broke down and admitted he had never actually sold a screenplay.

“In my defense, I tried extremely hard to sell a screenplay,” Conway said. “They just weren’t very good.” Conway went on to explain that those who can’t do usually are the best teachers.

“I am outraged,” Purvis said. “Not only did he never sell a screenplay, but he made me buy every book he wrote about screenwriting.”