Announcing the 2019 ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Contest Finalists
Listed below are the top 50 finalists 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 grand prize winner here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!
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Here are the top 50 finalists:
Screenplay Category:
| 432 Park Avenue | Tal Almog |
| A Bloody Affair | Scott Jeschke |
| Alexa Pops Up | Rylan Rafferty |
| Altar Ego | Alexandra Keister |
| Breaking the Law | Heather MacArthur & Kerry Anderson |
| Charlie Goes to Peru | Eljohn Macaranas |
| Chassie Loves Satan | KK Wootton & Ben Fasching-Gray |
| Cold Feat | Trent Tackbary |
| Covfefe | David Gero, Tahir Jon |
| Derby Queen | Wendy Moulton Tate |
| Fag Hags | Simon Corfield, Kim Taylor |
| Felix's Bar Mitzvah | Sammy Sultan |
| Finding Cumberbatch | Ivan Tsang |
| Fitter Families | Caitlin Scherer |
| Glorious Mack | Vern Lien |
| Heroman | Timucin Leflef |
| Honour | Richard Sloggett |
| Hugh Jackman Stole My Husband | Maisie Culver |
| Industrial Musical | Carolyn Cameron |
| Jason and the Silent Knight | Eric Sandefur |
| Kernel Panic | Eric Wong |
| Love Is Where You Find It | Tony Bracy |
| Manapult | John Taylor |
| Mother of the Bride | Tyler Kempf & Lauren McCarthy |
| Murph | Leanna Adams |
| Nutcrackers | Chrissy Lessey |
| Postpartum | Brie Mitchell |
| Princess Royale | Karel Ebergen & Jonathan Rechter |
| Remakers of the Lost Ark | Jonathan Meltzer |
| Ron Runs For Mayor | Roy Rhodes |
| Roomies | Gareth Wronski |
| Sadie Slay | Rosario Pellerito |
| Saigon Special | Kyle Little |
| Singletown | Alex Klein |
| Stone Cold Crazy Mother Tucker | Katterina Powers |
| The Chemistry of Joy | Monique Patterson |
| The G.O.A.T. | Sid Patwa |
| The Sherwood Forest | Christian Wolf |
| The Steven of Planet Earth | David Sajadi |
| This Is the Year | Jerome Velinsky |
| Turf Wars | Kelsey Ross |
| Turnover | Matthew Borlik |
| Victoria's Dirty Secret | Heather MacArthur & Kerry Anderson |
| When the Joke Tells You | Peter Gazdag |
| White Lie Wedding | Whitney Powell |
Concept Category:
| Do As I Say | Jenny Chang |
| How To Be Paki | Vedesh Nath |
| Mourning After Pitch | Kathleen Caprario-Ulrich |
| Wedding Day | Alison Hogge |
| Win Streak | Chaco Daniel |
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