Writer

Writing

Rick Fonté has written several award-winning screenplays and has had several short films or stage plays produced. He is managed by Alex Ross of Talentscout.

Two of his screenplays have been Grand Prize winners in contests and four have been Finalists.

Most recently, Rick has been the writer/director behind the popular A$$ Wipers, Inc. Internet Sitcom series and its accompanying vlog, Scatting with Giselle, both co-written with Brad Fletcher.

Rick has also written two stage musicals with John Vallone, and is currently recording the demo for the most recent one, Schoolgirl Pillowfight Massacre.

Her Fortune

coming-of-age

Seventh-grader WALTER protects his first love from her foretold death.

Grand Prize - Writemovies.com

Grand Prize - Anything but Hollywood

3rd Place - Indie Fest Chicago

Finalist - Final Draft

Semifinalist - Screenwriter’s Expo 5

Quarterfinalist - Monterey County Film Commission

Quarterfinalist - Big Bear Lake International Film Festival

Quarterfinalist - Page International Screenwriting Awards

top 10% - Nicholl Fellowship

The North Puddle

co-written with Don Zolidis
animated comedy

A ten-year-girl must save Santa and Santa’s workshop from death and destruction due to global warming.

currently entered in contests....

SCREENPLAYS

Birth Rate

science fiction

TAYLOR leads the last remnants of the human population as they gather into preserves after an alien attack.

2nd Place - Tennessee Screenwriting Association

Finalist - One-in-Ten Screenplay Contest

Semifinalist - Anything but Hollywood

Semifinalist - Shriekfest

Quarterfinalist - Fade In Awards

Quarterfinalist - The Writers Network

Postage and Handling

romantic comedy

GARY searches for love and a way out of his accidental career as a mail sorter.

Finalist - Page International Screenwriting Awards

Quarterfinalist - Monterey County Film Commission

Most Biggest Sleepover Ever

comedy

TOMMY hides in the Mall of America while he proves his father’s innocence.

Grand Prize - Ohio Independent Film Festival Screenplay Awards

2nd Place - American Accolades

Finalist - Tennessee Screenwriting Association

Finalist - Thrills and Chills (script) magazine

Semifinalist - The Writer’s Network

Semifinalist - The Screenplay Festival

Inheritance

ghost story

Three women in three different times face the terrors a New Orleans Mansion has kept hidden.

Semifinalist - The Writers Network

Schoolgirl Pillowfight Massacre

Book, Music and Lyrics by Rick Fonté and John Vallone

A send-up of 80’s slasher flicks, guaranteed to offend just about everyone. Four high school girls at a sleepover are picked-off, one-by-one, by either:
1) an escaped lunatic cannibal,
2) an all-American quarterback who worships Satan and is experimenting with
bisexuality,
3) the butch-dike mother of one of the girls who is a little too anxious to get her

daughter out of the way,
4) the principal of the school who also happens to be the ringleader of a child

pornography ring, or
5) the vaguely hound-like, trench-coat-wearing Officer McGraft.

With songs such as “The GIrl is Like an Instant Hard-On,” “Dyke Out,” “Little Girls in Bondage,” and “Anal Rape Kinda Hurts,” SCHOOLGIRL PILLOWFIGHT MASSACRE is as deviant as musical can get and makes Avenue Q look like My Fair Lady.

One Night Stand

Book, Music and Lyrics by Rick Fonté and John Vallone

Two story lines set years apart interweave as Amanda falls in love after a one night stand in much the same way as her mother Maureen did twenty-three years earlier. Maureen’s lies and secrecy create disastrous effects for Amanda as she begins a relationship with someone who just might be her own brother.

Twisted in a Sense (Decisions and Revisions)

original one-act

First produced at Bloomington Playwrights Project as part of the Dark Alley Series, Twisted In a Sense explores the slippery slope on which a high school poetry teacher finds himself when he becomes convinced one of his students is in love with him. When he cannot get the visions of his past loves out of his head, he is barely able to see what is real and what is imagined.

Pick Nick

original one-act

First produced at Bloomington Playwrights Project as part of the Dark Alley Serie

s, Pick Nick involves a girl and the two roommates fighting for her affection, and the third roommate, who may or may not be currently just a head in a cooler.

The Red Hand

10 minute play

Performed as part of the Texas NonProfit Theatre Association Annual Conference. Every now and then a mother must make a sacrifice. Which child will she give up this time when the Angel of Death comes knocking?

Winner - Texas Non-profit Theatre Association Short Play Competition

MUSICALS

Stage Plays

tHe RiTes of AntigonE

full-length adaptation of the Sophoclean Tragedy

First performed at Bloomington Playwrights Project as part of their subscriber season, this sci-fi version of the classic greek tragedy finds a post-apocalyptic world still clinging to the last remnants of culture from a nearly forgotten past. As they perform the ancient Greek play Antigone as a religious ceremony, demanding a sacrifice of one of their own, people finally begin to question the authority of the priest and the doctrine upon which their society is founded.