This week’s writing festival is a showcase of the winning Stage Play, the TV Pilot and Spec Screenplay winners, the winning Fan Fiction screenplay, plus 8 winning short screenplays.

They will be performed by some of the top actors working in Toronto today.

Here are the details of the screenplays and stage play being performed:

#1 – Stage Play – TWO MERCHANTS OF VENICE by Stephen M. Hunt

Genre: History, Drama

A radical adaptation of The Merchant of Venice that in the main rearranges Shakespeare’s text to turn the main themes on their head and to tell a very different story for 21st century audiences.

#2 – TV SPEC – RICK & MORTY  “The Rickgotiator” by David Cryan

Genre: Comedy, Animation

When Morty accidentally gets his family kidnapped while trying to stop an alien war, he and Rick must execute an elaborate plan to rescue their family and trick the aliens into calling a truce.

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