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Corey Mandell and Chuck Tatham
Date: February 24, 2025
Venue: TIFF Lightbox
Doors Open: 6PM
Event: 7PM – 10PM
Corey Mandell, famed UCLA Screenwriting Instructor, award winning screenwriter and playwright and Toronto Screenwriting Conference favourite returns to the TSC to deliver an essential master class on writing scenes that grab the reader’s attention and keep them reading.

Corey Mandell
Corey Mandell is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter who has written projects for Ridley Scott, Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, John Travolta, Warner Brothers, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox Family, Working Title, Paramount, Live Planet, Beacon Films, Touchstone, Trilogy, Radiant, Kopelson Entertainment and Walt Disney Pictures.
Corey is also a distinguished instructor at UCLA, where he earned his MFA. He teaches workshops in LA, and across the world. His students have sold scripts to Warner Brothers, Paramount, HBO, Netflix, FX, Amazon, Disney, Universal, MGM, Peacock, Showtime, NBC, ABC, MTV, Sony, Nickelodeon, A24, Hulu and Apple TV.
Others have gotten staffed on such shows as Stranger Things, Ted Lasso, Wandavision, Mr. Robot, Station Eleven, This is Us, Bojack-Horseman, The Leftovers, Yellowstone, Marvel’s Agents of Shield, Orange is the New Black, Selena, The Walking Dead, You’re the Worst, Community, Schitt’s Creek, Catastrophe and Succession.

Chuck Tatham
The Showrunners of Degrassi
Date: March 24, 2025
Venue: TIFF Lightbox
Doors Open: 6PM
Event: 7PM – 10PM
Featuring Lynda Schyler and Stephen Stohn discussing how they built one of the preeminent showrunner training habitats in the last 30 years and joined by Sarah Glinski and Michael Grassi discussing what they learned at Degrassi and how those lessons have helped them become two of Canada’s top showrunners.

Linda Schuyler
Executive Producer/Showrunner, HOLLY HOBBIE, DEGRASSI: NEXT CLASS
In 1994, in recognition of her contribution to Canadian television programming, Linda was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2012, she was also appointed to the Order of Ontario, and has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from both Wilfrid Laurier University, and the University of Toronto.

Stephen Stohn
Stephen Stohn is perhaps best-known over the decades as the executive producer of the Degrassi television franchise, and its related webisodes, merchandising and web sites. Consisting of over 500 episodes, the Degrassi franchise (1979-2017), has won the prestigious Peabody Award, two International Emmys, over 25 Gemini/Canadian Screen Awards, two Prix Jeunesse International Awards, two Teen Choice Awards, the Critics’ Choice Award and was nominated four times for a Prime-Time Emmy Award.
In 2023, Stephen was made a Member of the Order of Canada for his long-time contributions to the Canadian entertainment industry. That same year, Stephen and his wife Linda Schuyler were inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame on behalf of the Degrassi Franchise.

Sarah Glinski
Executive Producer/Showrunner, HOLLY HOBBIE, DEGRASSI: NEXT CLASS
Sarah Glinski is an Emmy-nominated TV writer/producer currently serving as Executive Producer and Showrunner on the Hulu/DHX/Universal Kids series HOLLY HOBBIE. Previously, she ran DEGRASSI for Netflix/DHX. Over the last decade, Sarah’s produced over 200 episodes of television and 2 MOWs. She has also staffed on LITTLE MOSQUE ON THE PRAIRIE, and BILLABLE HOURS.
Sarah’s been nominated for three Emmys, won three Canadian Screen Awards and was named one of Hollywood Reporter’s Next Generation. When Sarah’s not brainstorming ways to get characters in trouble, she’s keeping her two young daughters out of it.

Michael Grassi
In addition to his work on Lost Girl, Grassi also spent time in the writing room on Schitt’s Creek, and executive producing Riverdale and Pretty Little Liars.
MOWs and Procedurals
Date: April 14, 2025
Venue: TIFF Lightbox
Doors Open: 6PM
Event: 7PM – 10PM
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