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Worcester native John J. Lynch \u201998 has been following the call to write for the big screen since he was kid. His latest short film is gaining attention as it shows in film festivals around the country.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/h4>\n

Story and photos by Nancy Sheehan<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

John J. Lynch took a gamble on an idea close to his heart\u2014and hit the creative jackpot.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lynch, a 1998 graduate of Worcester State and adjunct faculty member in the English Department, wrote a screenplay loosely based on his life experiences when he was younger. The resulting short film, called <\/span>The Gambler<\/span><\/i>, is winning accolades, honors, and acceptance into film festivals across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

An April showing at the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival in Worcester, which was its first festival screening, was a sellout. Submissions for upcoming screenings at festivals in New York City, Philadelphia, and elsewhere have already netted Lynch several awards. The film is the first solo screenwriting credit for Lynch, who started in TV as an assistant writer on <\/span>That \u201970s Show <\/span><\/i>and also wrote jokes for Tim Allen and other comedians.<\/span><\/p>\n

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John J. Lynch with actor Mark Rolston, one of the stars of the short film The Gambler.<\/p><\/div>\n

Lynch, who grew up in Worcester and now lives in Burbank, Calif., no longer gambles, but based <\/span>The Gambler<\/span><\/i> screenplay on the exploits of his younger self. The main character, Joe Sullivan, finds himself in a dangerous gambler\u2019s bind\u2014laying a bet with one bookie to pay off another. The 17-minute film involves Joe sitting in a movie theater as he waits for the results of the NBA game that he has placed his do-or-die bet on, another nod to Lynch\u2019s younger years.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was growing up, we had something like six movie theaters in Worcester, and my friends and I practically lived in them,\u201d he said.<\/span> His film fixation led Lynch to make movies with friends in his backyard and to guess all the Academy Award winners in a school contest when he was 13. A teacher at Worcester Central Catholic High School called the local daily newspaper about the young phenom, and Lynch found himself on the cover of the entertainment section.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey did a story about how I make movies with neighborhood kids and took a picture of me striking a pose in front of <\/span>The Empire Strikes Back<\/span><\/i> marquee at the old Showcase Cinemas downtown (now the Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts). The headline was something like \u2018Whiz kid picks the Oscars at 13,\u2019\u201d he said. But he\u2019s not one to take much credit for the feat, even now. \u201cThe big movies were <\/span>Coming Home<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>The Deer Hunter<\/span><\/i>, so it was a pretty easy year,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

After high school, Lynch\u2019s youthful movie-making dreams were put on hold as he set out to find a way to make a living. He eventually got a job at a company that made packaging from recycled cardboard. It paid well\u2014no small prize for a working-class Worcester kid. \u201cI was a night foreman on a corrugator machine, which sounds pretty far away from screenwriting,\u201d he said. \u201cBut they liked me and wanted to keep me on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, though the money was good, he found the work unfulfilling. He quit his job and enrolled at Worcester State. He was the first in his immediate family to go to college, so it was a big step, but he quickly sensed he had done the right thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI took a class with Ken Gibbs, a longtime English teacher there, and he was talking about a Thomas Pynchon novel, Mason & Dixon, and he was so excited about the ideas behind it, the philosophy of life behind it, and what the writer had to go through to create it, and I was like, \u2018Yes, I want more of this. This is where I belong,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

After Lynch expressed his newfound enthusiasm for literature to another of his professors, Ruth Haber, he was urged to sign up for a school-sponsored trip to Worcester, England, to study Shakespeare. \u201cAnd so, I went to Worcester, England, with Worcester State, and this was my introduction to college\u2014taking all these really cool classes and being flown to England to study Shakespeare.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

His Worcester State experiences led the former night foreman to think outside the box. His Worcester State English professors became role models, and Lynch decided he would follow in their learned footsteps.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But Hollywood and his love of writing led him to follow a different career path, although teaching has remained a part of his life. He teaches an online screenwriting class at Worcester State as well as online courses at Southern New Hampshire University and at Santa Monica College. \u201cI think I\u2019ll always be involved with teaching one way or another, which is great because I just love it,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lynch moved from Worcester to California after he enrolled in a master\u2019s degree program at Emerson College. He majored in writing, literature, and publishing the first year and then \u2026 he took a screenwriting class. The professor, a successful screenwriter himself, encouraged Lynch to go Los Angeles. \u201cAnd I said, \u2018L.A., like <\/span>Hollywood<\/span><\/i>?\u2019 And he goes, \u2018Yeah, you can finish your degree out there.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

So, Lynch switched to a creative writing program and set off for a new adventure. \u201cI just packed up my car with another graduate student I knew from Emerson, and we drove across the country,\u201d he said. An early success came when he defended his master\u2019s thesis before an Emerson professor who also worked in the entertainment industry. \u201cMy thesis was a screenplay, and he optioned it,\u201d Lynch said. \u201cThat\u2019s where people give you money to not show it to anybody else.\u201d It was the first of several movie script options that would keep Lynch financially afloat even though, as is the case with most optioned scripts, the movies never actually got made.<\/span><\/p>\n

His first job after graduating was as a gofer with the production company for the hit TV show <\/span>3rd Rock from the Sun<\/span><\/i>. The company also produced <\/span>That \u201970s Show<\/span><\/i>. A secretary from <\/span>3rd Rock<\/span><\/i> intervened to cut short Lynch\u2019s gofer stint. \u201cShe said \u2018You have an MFA from Emerson? What are you doing being a gofer?\u2019\u201d She made a call and found <\/span>That \u201970s Show <\/span><\/i>needed an assistant writer, and he got the job.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lynch said he learned a lot in that show\u2019s writer\u2019s room, including that TV wasn\u2019t his calling. \u201cI learned that it\u2019s the same formula every single week. They just put them in different situations,\u201d he said. \u201cIt’s the same set-up: two jokes by page three, four jokes by page eight, complete resolution by page 20. Everybody’s happy at the end. It\u2019s almost a mathematical process.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, Lynch was inexorably drawn to movie scriptwriting, perhaps a reflection of those endless hours spent in theaters growing up. To support himself, he does a variety of writing jobs but always comes back to the movies. \u201cI knew that I really had to be true to my talents as far as what I could produce,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, I\u2019ve written three movies and all of them sold, but none of them got made.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Until <\/span>The Gambler<\/span><\/i>, that is. \u201cThat\u2019s my first sole screenwriting credit\u2014after all this time\u2014with just my name and no one else,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lynch got an honorable mention at the<\/span> New York Screenwriting Awards<\/span><\/a>, so he will go to New York this summer to show his latest project around\u2014a full-length script of <\/span>The Gambler<\/span><\/i>. \u201c<\/span>This summer in New York I\u2019ll be seeing a lot of people and saying, \u2018Well, this is what I have. If you liked the short, here’s the feature,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cI think it has a great shot.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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