After earning a B.A. in Communications from Stanford University and a M.A. in Radio, Television and Film from the University of Michigan, Mr. Conway worked as a sports cameraman, a production assistant for an award-winning New York commercial director, and as a producer/director of documentary and industrial films.
Moving to Los Angeles in 1979, he served as production manager and visual effects producer for low-budget film producer Roger Corman, working alongside many up and coming young talents including director James Cameron and producer Gale Anne Hurd. In 1984, Mr. Conway became a full-time screenwriter. For twenty years, he worked primarily in television, serving on the writing staffs of prime time series such as “Matt Houston”, “Jake and the Fatman”, and “Miami Vice”, for which he co-wrote the final episode.
Since moving with his family to Santa Fe in 1992, he has written numerous freelance scripts for shows including “Matlock”, “Walker Texas Ranger”, “The Marshall”, the Disney Channel's “So Weird”, and “First Wave”, a science fiction drama executive produced by Larry Sugar and Francis Ford Coppola. Also for Larry Sugar, Bill rewrote several family films for Showtime, including “Robin of Locksley” and “Ronnie and Julie” a modern adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet”. Another Showtime project Mr. Conway wrote scripts for was “Dead Man's Gun”, a period western drama created by the Speilman brothers, creators of “Kung Fu”. In 2002 Mr. Conway was the winner of the Santa Fe Performing Arts New Play Contest for the comic drama “Men's Room”.