Announcing the 2019 ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Contest Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on May 29, 2019
Listed below are the quarterfinalists for the screenplay and concept categories of the 2019 ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Contest, selected from nearly 1,000 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far, and thanks to everyone who submitted. The jury this year includes a producer from Bradley Cooper & Todd Phillip's Joint Effort, executives from Ben Stiller's Red Hour Films and Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions, and a literary coordinator from Artists First Management.
The winner of the concept category will receive an exclusive developmental mentoring prize package with Joseph Garner of Joint Effort.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the semifinalists, finalists, and grand prize winner here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!
And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries in 2020, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the quarterfinalists:
Screenplay Category
| 432 Park Avenue | Tal Almog |
| A Bloody Affair | Scott Jeschke |
| A Carol | Rebekah Hughes |
| Agent Thumb | Alison Parker & Rodriguez Fruitbat |
| Alexa Pops Up | Rylan Rafferty |
| All Art Is Quite Useless | Jeff Racho |
| All The Way Happy | Melinda Hicks |
| Altar Ego | Alexandra Keister |
| Ambush in Courtroom D | Michael de Silva |
| American Ugly | Richard Hoffman |
| At the Hip | Rakel Joyce & Ryan Geffert |
| Balkan-ish | Ani Jarrett |
| Bandwidth Brothers | Zach Pappas |
| Basement | Dax de la Monta |
| Battle of the Exes | Matthew Hoch |
| Beverly West Isn't dead | Craig Donnelly |
| BFF Breakup | Celene Paramo |
| Blue Comedy | Vincent Accettola |
| Born Again | Daniel Schooling |
| Breaking the Law | Heather MacArthur & Kerry Anderson |
| Buddy Price | Eric LaValle |
| Buddy Wanders and the Bad Yogis | Dan Zailskas |
| Bun in the Coven | Sara Lohman |
| Cactus | Maria Edible |
| Center Stage | Christine Feldman |
| Charley New Wave | Gregory Hall |
| Charlie Goes to Peru | Eljohn Macaranas |
| Chassie Loves Satan | KK Wootton |
| Christmas Ape | Dylan Cheely |
| Christmas Dinner | Kristin Goodman |
| Christopher & Classroom 12 | Steve Holinsworth |
| Club Loser | Max Sartor |
| Cold Feat | Trent Tackbary |
| Cooking4Luv | Tony Bracy |
| Cool Extremities | Max Roux & Nicholas Laskin |
| Corso | Eli Proud & Daniel Torres |
| Covfefe | David Gero & Tahir Jon |
| Cyborn | Mark Renshaw |
| D.U.M. | Steve Duncan |
| Dad Joke | Max Ash & Rob Tanchum |
| Darryn the Bold and The Sword of Boldness | Justin Best |
| Death Tax | Alan Adler |
| Derby Queen | Wendy Moulton Tate |
| Downward Dawg! | R.H. Austin |
| Earlybirds | Charlie Schulman |
| Easy as Pie | John Wood |
| Eleven Thirty-Five | Motown Maurice |
| Ellen Flood | Kevin Burke |
| Esther | Annette Siegal |
| Evil Little Crush | Patricia Kalbrener |
| Expiration Date | Joann Buckley Collins & Eric Olson |
| Fag Hags | Simon Corfield |
| Fake It 'Til Ya Make It | Alexander Carver |
| Family of Sons | Andrew Templeton |
| Felix's Bar Mitzvah | Sammy Sultan |
| Finding Cumberbatch | Ivan Tsang |
| Fire and Dice: Legend of the Lost Game | Tom Patrick |
| First Date | Tom Baljak |
| Fitter Families | Caitlin Scherer |
| Flipped | Jacob Rice |
| Florida Woman... | Stephen Fouasnon |
| For One Night Only | Peter Schmidt |
| Frank & Stein | Danny Baram |
| Freefall | Denise Meyers |
| FUJH | Margaret Colligan |
| Funeral of a Lifetime | Sarah Newton |
| Getting Back to Jane | Robin Streichler |
| Ghost Dad | vincent venturella |
| Gina Complicated | Bruce Stirling |
| Glorious Mack | Vern Lien |
| Going Home | John Wojturski |
| Graduate Assassin | Barry Ambrose & Armand Kachigian |
| Grand Theft Rental | Beatrice Lovett |
| Grave | Heather Ellingwood |
| Gray Squad | Guilherme Viegas |
| Gunmetal Rose | Daniel Hart Donoghue |
| Happy Funland | Devon Armstrong |
| Harry & Mary Escape New York | Patrick Jones & Jessica Jones |
| Helicopter Dad | Joel & Valerie Reeves |
| Hercules Down and Out | Kim Robillard |
| Here Comes the Fraud | Joe Dzikiewicz |
| Heroman | Timucin Leflef |
| Hey Hudson | Varun Raman & Tom Hancock |
| Holy Fool | Kenneth Butler |
| HOLY SH!T | Christian J. Hearn |
| Homesick | Michelle Harper |
| Honour | Richard Sloggett |
| Hope Street | Amisha Patel & Ali Zahiri |
| Hugh Jackman Stole My Husband | Maisie Culver |
| I Gotta Be Me: The Musical! | Rich Figel |
| Industrial Musical | Carolyn Cameron |
| Invasion of the Movie Snatchers | Daniel Shinners & LeeAnn Patrick |
| It Had To Be You | April Hartmann |
| Italy in August | Andrew Stone |
| Jason and the Silent Knight | Eric Sandefur |
| Juicy Hotdogs | Aaron Kozak |
| Just a Hitch | Kate Powis |
| Just Shoot The Fucking Deer | Robert Lowe |
| JYOTI | Jared Goodman |
| Kernel Panic | Eric Wong |
| Killing Nate | Jonatan Bokman |
| King Me | Brian McWilliams & Jayme Petrille |
| L.A. Lies | Jon Paley |
| L.A. Wildlife | K.W. Morgenlander |
| La Peregrina by Starlight | Jake S. Weisman |
| Lisa | Stephen Woodworth |
| Little, But Fierce | Melanie Case-Martin |
| Losing Streak | Laura Messer Jackson |
| Love Sick | Sherrill Schmidt |
| Love's Faire Game | Robert Tolz |
| Low-Level Clone | Lisa Petersen |
| Manapult | John Taylor |
| Mastur Class | Sydney Shea Barker |
| Mavericks | Bulent Ozdemir |
| Max's Journey | Jerome Dean |
| Minor Irritations | Sam Peter Jackson |
| Minyan | Adam Ansell |
| Model Home | Barbara Sundstrom |
| Morning in America | Christian McDonald |
| Mother of the Bride | Tyler Kempf & Lauren McCarthy |
| Murph | Leanna Adams |
| My Next Ex | Rene Eram |
| Namaste! | Brent Benoit |
| Nomads | Brent Hartinger |
| None That I Know Of | Patricia Jones |
| Not My Emergency | Matthew Conlin |
| Now I'm Dating Chicks | Stacy Keane |
| Nutcrackers | Chrissy Lessey |
| Old People | Michael Richey |
| Old Scratch | Tyler Moore |
| One Man's Trash | Kylie Rolincik |
| One Night At Coachella | Coral D'Alessandro |
| One Summer Night at the Royal Athenian | Margaret MacDonald |
| Over It | Joy Goodwin |
| Party of the Year | Benny Diaz III |
| Penelope's War | Sunny & Marc Ellis |
| Perfect copy | Chris Webb |
| Possessive | Ervin Anderson |
| Postpartum | Brie Mitchell |
| Princess Royale | Karel Ebergen & Jonathan Rechter |
| Proudly Made in Buffalo | Erick Pausz |
| Punctured | Shari Grewal |
| Queen + Country | Varun Raman & Tom Hancock |
| Queen of All | Nicholas Carleton |
| Raw Data | Gareth Wronski |
| Remakers of the Lost Ark | Jonathan Meltzer |
| Rendezvous | Victor Rocha |
| Rent A Puppy | Joshua Koske & Greg Gould |
| Robot Love Coach | Julie Bliss Umbreit |
| Rock & Roll Heaven | Leah Baxter |
| Rodeo Clown School | Stan Williamson |
| Role Play | Barbie Ross |
| Ron Runs For Mayor | Roy Rhodes |
| Roomies | Gareth Wronski |
| Sadie Slay | Rosario Pellerito |
| Saigon Special | Kyle Little |
| Saving America | Michael Lederer |
| Searching for Santa | Linda Sherbert |
| Senior Moment | Robert Mangrum |
| Senseless Confidential | Marty Beaudet |
| Seven Seas | Luying Zhang |
| Shakespeare & Marlowe | Chris ONeill |
| She can fly too | Ushmey Chakraborty |
| She's Got Cojones | Esther Geller |
| Shooper | Carolyn Lovie Davis |
| Singletown | Alex Klein |
| Small Dictator Complex | Bree Wyrd |
| Somewhere South Dakota | Theresa Giese |
| Sons of Italy | Dennis Loonan & Ann Paly Loonan |
| Space Junk | Michele Remsen |
| Space Suckers | Rebecca Arnold & Derick Otto |
| Spy Off | Odin Ozdil |
| Stalkers In Love | Lloyd Evans |
| Starting Over | Curt McCray |
| Stone Cold Crazy Mother Tucker | Katterina Powers |
| Str8 to the Altar | Devin Lotfi |
| Suicide at Area 51 | Jac Roberts |
| Superstorm: A Love Story | Tom Bragg |
| Sweet Old Man | Andrew Mescher |
| Terror Town | Matt Morgan |
| The Bad Driver | Russell Smith |
| The Bayside Boyz | Zachary Swickey |
| The Bijou Chronicles | Demetra Pittman |
| The Blood Grinder | Dave Conte, Nick Schwartz & Matt Braunsdorf |
| The Cemetery Plots | Donahue Silvis |
| The Chemistry of Joy | Monique Patterson |
| The Curse Of The Cum Rag | Matt Clemons |
| The Ex Factor | Gary Sharp |
| The Franchise | James Grayford |
| The Frat Boyz | Spencer Pesce |
| The Further Adventures of Jimmy Lynch | Robert Rossetti |
| The G.O.A.T. | Sid Patwa |
| The Garfield Guy | Jeff Longsworth |
| The Good News Desk | Judith Coppinger & Megan Day |
| The Gospel of What Went Wrong | Jason Garrison |
| The Hive | Margaret MacDonald |
| The Lakeosaurus | Steve Holinsworth |
| The Lift | Richard Mallett |
| The Love Spell | Wendy Urrico |
| The Monster of Perfect, California | Paul Sheridan |
| The Oughthousers | Ari Krause |
| The Real Thing | Matthew Papadopoulos |
| The Reality of Dirk Fathom | James Sweeney |
| The RomCom | Rafael Diez |
| The Sherwood Forest | Christian Wolf |
| The Steven of Planet Earth | David Sajadi |
| The Super Surprising Saga of Serena Andrew | Rick Rosenberg & Jeremy Dobrish |
| The Wedding Toaster | Elisabeth Tyler |
| There Goes Patrick | Martin Thuernau |
| This Is the Year | Jerome Velinsky |
| Throw Back Thursday | Lisa Nardini & Gina Nardini |
| Till Debt Do Us Part | Mirana Comstock & Elizabeth Joyce |
| Tilt | Pearse Lehane |
| Tinderella | Jane Henning |
| Together Again | Owain Paciuszko |
| Toy Box | Steve Holinsworth |
| Trade Show | Rich Orstad |
| Tragically Famous | Lisa J Cristoforo |
| Tres Banditos | Thomas Leupp |
| Turf Wars | Kelsey Ross |
| Turn in Poachers | Christopher Anderson |
| Turnover | Matthew Borlik |
| Tuxedo Terrace | Carmine Bicchetti |
| Twisted Hearts | Dave Vaughan |
| Two Legs for Bubba | Jeremy Filiatrault |
| UFO Phil | Eric Huffman |
| Under Miss Management | Jean-Paul Churchward |
| Under The Jello Mold | Jennie Fahn |
| Undercover Down Under | Georgina Love |
| Unvali-Dated | Joe Borg |
| Upbeat | Jessica Keaveney & Pam Przybylski |
| Vampires For Beginners | Boris Coll |
| Victoria's Dirty Secret | Heather MacArthur & Kerry Anderson |
| Wanna Be Spies | Terence Murphy |
| Warrior Pose | Jessica Jolly |
| We Love Celebrities | Tom Slevin |
| When Loved Ones Are Near | Aurora George |
| When the Joke Tells You | Peter Gazdag |
| White Lie Wedding | Whitney Powell |
| White Wedding | Lina Khan |
| Wistful Thinking | Ohad Ira Amram |
| Xarno the Space Boy Gets Payback | Alex Schor |
| Yes, And... | Christine Sneed |
| You Look Rested | Ted Ryan & Christopher Sloan |
| Yule Logs & Snow Balls | Don Ammon |
| Zandari | Esmeralda J. Kendall |
Concept Category:
| A Brooklyn Christmas Carol | William Suarez |
| An Undeleted Life | Rich Eckardt |
| Betting on a Wedding | Laurie Turner |
| Bingo Cop | Jessica Joens |
| botox fiction | yoann kimfoko |
| Coho Hotel | Karla Jacobs |
| Comic Collateral | Jay Stamatis |
| D.I.Y. | David Sokol |
| Do As I Say | Jenny Chang |
| Don Senator | Alex Beattie |
| Don't Let Me Down | Nick Boocock |
| Exile on Vain Street | Tom McKenna |
| Freight Dogs | W. Colin McKay |
| Happily Deader After | Mark Solomon |
| How To Be Paki | Vedesh Nath |
| JavaGinas | Denisha Read |
| King of the Spiders | Matthew White |
| Mourning After Pitch | Kathleen Caprario-Ulrich |
| Murder for Dummies | Kristofer Seppälä |
| Pocho | Marco Patino |
| Pox: A Dirty Love Story | J.J. Bitters |
| Rebuilding Year | Sheila Boyd & Debra Boynes |
| Saint Nick'Lost | Tina Field Howe |
| Space Suckers | Rebecca Arnold & Derick Otto |
| Super Villain | Troy Graham |
| Surprise Party | Ryan Case |
| The Fake Heroes: Volume I | Ali Yildirim |
| The Horror! | Ben Bushell |
| The One | Brooke Fenton |
| They Knew too Much | Eric Seale |
| Three Unwishes | Troy Graham |
| Upon My Soul, A Wicked Lie | Debby Huvaere |
| Wedding Day | Anonymous |
| Win Streak | Chaco Daniel |
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