Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2020 ScreenCraft Comedy Contest. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 2,400 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
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Here are the Semifinalists:
| 50 x 50 | Kelly Edwards |
| A CHRISTMAS RAPTURE or (SANTAPOCALYPSE!) | Andy Greskoviak |
| About-Face | Katrina Deaton |
| Adult Acne | Jade Tremblay |
| Ahistorical | Thomas Butler |
| American Puppets | Chandler Kilgore-Parshall |
| And No One Mourned | Ky Rogers |
| Anxiety Is My Boyfriend | Alexis Reliford |
| Arise, Ser Hunchback | David Snee |
| Arranged | Mithra Alavi |
| Autocomplete | Oscar Madrid |
| Avery Carroll Is Not Dead | Anne Junget |
| B.B. | Amanda Verwey |
| Bad Romance | Chad Wellinger |
| Balls and Strikes | Ellen Adair, Chris Carfizzi |
| Banbury Manor | Allie Jennings |
| Bardown: The Billy Buchanan Story | Justin Kueber |
| Beached | Jaime Silverman |
| Being Brave | Ambika Vas |
| Being Keisha | Keisha Prince |
| Best Laid Plans | Kelly Anelons, Megan Anelons |
| BOOMERS | Candice Caccioppi, Staci Caccioppi |
| Breakfast Club | Sumin Kim |
| Bridal Party | Taylor Chukwu |
| Bridesmen | Kevin Revie |
| BROTHER-HUSBANDS | Zach Waggoner |
| Brown Swan | Asmita Paranjape |
| Bugaboo | Morgan Milender |
| BUILDING UTOPIA | John Montgomery |
| Bull Boy | Ryan Ebert |
| Camouflage and Lipstick | Lawrence Daly |
| Captain Midnight | Jay Spenser |
| Cats in The Cradle | John Graney |
| Chosenville | Jessica Kane |
| CINDS & MILLA | Billie Bates |
| Circle of Illumination | Trisha DiFazio |
| CIRCUS TRAIN | Billy Baker |
| Clay | Adi Blotman |
| Coach Mom | Nicole Myrick |
| Confessions of a Former Teen Superhero | Keith Hartman |
| Cookie Crumbles | Eliza Janssen |
| Copycat | Ryan Anker |
| Crazy or Stupid | Hanna Safar |
| Crazy Train. A True Story? | James McDonald |
| Cream Puff | Lloyd Barnett |
| Cupids | Angelo Calarco, Nick Grills |
| Curveballs | Suzanne Reed |
| CUT THE CORD: THE HEDGEHOG'S LEAP | Kostan Chess |
| David Cronenberg Lives Next Door | Heather Baillie-Brown |
| Dead Cat Bounce | Jack Caswell |
| Def Sheppard | Alexandra Keister |
| Definitely Cursed | Brennan Gilpatrick, Erin Walsh |
| Derblin Paranormal | Ryan Manns, Jocelyn Manns |
| Destiny's Child | Taylor Chukwu |
| Dick Allscock: Celebrity Chef | Anthony Petito |
| Die Hard at Comicon | Joel Buxton, Leonard Chan |
| Do Us Part | Reed Arnold |
| Dollar Van | Matt Baetz |
| Don't Panic | Samantha Manning |
| Double Dating | Kevin Walsh |
| EELS | james bray |
| Elephant in the room | Thomas Morris |
| ELLA SPARKS, SMC. | Paul Ashton |
| End of the Line | Rani DeMuth |
| Excellent | Ell Orion, Pepper West |
| Family Valuers | Paula Dixon |
| Fear No Evil | Mia Farmer |
| FEATURE CREATURES | Sophie Hessekiel |
| Feckton Nation | M.M. Kagan |
| Finding the Reins | Lyric Fergusson |
| FIRST AND GWEN | W.E. Richardson |
| First Bro | Eliot Gerstel |
| Five Kingdoms | Craig Koller |
| Five Years Later | Arthur Veenema, Marta Reeder |
| Flaking Out | Tessa Shaffer, Shane Shaffer |
| Flew It | Adam Vaughn |
| Florida Man Decides To Kill Guy Who Started The @FloridaMan Twitter Account | Eric Landau |
| For the Culture | Phylicia Pearl Mpasi |
| Fountain Of Youth | Justin Palmer, Kathryn Cord |
| Freddie Prinze Jr. | Jake Duerden |
| Full Moon Over the Nudey Bar | Daniel Bridges |
| GAIL'S CLASSIC VIDEO | Harrison Pierce |
| Gay For Jesus | Jason Laurits |
| GAYFELLAS | Marc Edelstein |
| Get A Life | Irina Prokhorenko |
| Get Happy | Thomas Douglas Mann |
| Ghosted | Timothy Edwards |
| GHOSTED, WITH LOVE | Bob Canning |
| Glitter Box: Dicking Around at Dawn | Jennifer Le Roux |
| GOLDEN SHOWERS: The Search for the Presidential Pee Tape | Joe Ayella |
| Good Vibrations | Nathalie Ahmadzadeh |
| Grandeur | Shaun Perry, Jay Perry |
| Gransassin | Vanessa Leigh, Aaron Bennett |
| Gulls | Jeff Stern, Jay Farrell |
| GUNCLE WEEKEND | Philip Hall, Erin Fredman |
| Half In / Half Out | Eric Stroud, Rory Kulz |
| Hat Trick | Janet Hyde |
| Heavy Metal Heat | Sam Hergott |
| Hebrew School'd | Jessica Jacobs |
| Hell On Earth | Gary Blake |
| Here Come the Bastards | Brian Otting |
| Heroin and Dandelions | Callum Fordyce |
| Hot Girl Summer | Michelle Askew |
| Hothouse Flower | Heidi Hayward |
| How Heather Survived the Apocalypse | Amanda Graham |
| How Soon Is Now | Vincent Venturella, Jack Guimon |
| How To Be A Good Citizen | Allison Kilkenny |
| How We Got Laid | karolyn Carnie |
| I Hate LeBron James | Alan Johnson |
| I LOVE MY DAD | James Morosini |
| Illegal | Dorothy Nguyen |
| Immigrants of Rainbow Heights | Raza Mughal |
| Infancy Edits | J. Steven Madura |
| Influenced | Charlotte Lobdell |
| Inspector Bill -- Thank You For The Murder | James Hannan |
| Institutionalized | Clarissa Carson |
| Jane Dough | Peter Quinn |
| JIYAN | Daniela Saioni, Mazdak Taebi |
| Just Happy to Be Here | Brian Farrey-Latz |
| Just Potential | Piyali Syam, Vick Krishna |
| Kansas, Anymore | Heather Farlinger |
| Koreatown | Noah Kim |
| Lab Rats | Jessica Kim |
| Le Dame In Rosa | Leonardo Foti, Martin Donovan |
| Leakers | Andrew Ford, Matt Moskovciak |
| Les Go! | Catherine Vouvray |
| Lucky Spanish Fools | Joshua Bernard, Fernando Saballos |
| Mad & Frank | Cody Mauro |
| Making A Move | Jessica Hilscher |
| Making it Work | Ian Wittels |
| Mama Jama Joggers | Stef Piermattei |
| Mary and the Early M | Shannon Ayers, Tia Ayers, Andrew Hallisey |
| Maternity Leave | Marguerite Spellman |
| Mating Season | Jon Aird |
| Max and Tony's Epic One-Night Stand | Thomas Kivney |
| Me&Jezebel | Lucinda Spurling |
| Meet Cute | Ariel Bond |
| Merry Little Marketers | Kate Bryce |
| Middle Age: "Village Idiot" (Pilot) | Myles Hewette |
| Milbert's Tortoiseshell | Erik Charbonneau |
| Mildred Wants to Die | Anthony McMillan |
| Million Reasons | Aurora George |
| Missed Connections | Zachary Griffin |
| Missus Softee | Cinder Chou |
| Modern Kicks | Andrew Dawson Smith |
| Mom | Jordan Champagne |
| Mysterious Ways | Rodney Gibbons |
| Nice Briefs | Navid Mehrjou |
| No Place Like Hutch | Jake Farrago |
| O'Shea's | Taylor Fox |
| Off Camera | Shalice Coutu |
| Olive's Alter Ego | Anna Verbuk |
| Option | Amber Lane |
| Oregon Decorative Rock | Grant Davis |
| Pablo Escobear and the Lost Girls of Neverland | Christopher Hood |
| Peyton | Rachel Chapman |
| Physical | Dylan Murphy |
| Plumeria | Megan Wilcox-Free |
| Polite | Caitlynn Richard |
| Popped | Sam Rosati |
| Pops | Jane Miller |
| Pride and Prep School | Alexandra Calamari |
| Producing People | Andrea Metz |
| Prom Night | Samantha MacAdam |
| Proudly Made in Buffalo | Erick Pausz |
| Publish or Perish | David Liban |
| Quest Friends Forever | Chris Iredale |
| Real Bitches of Alabama | Salina White |
| Regal | Pete Tellouche |
| Remember Love | Alexandra Calamari |
| Republic of Winneconne | Lisa Franek |
| Revelation | Jacob S. Wydra |
| Reversing Around Corners | Lee Maddox |
| Rewinder | Arun Narayanan |
| Road to Bernal | Guillermo Lozano Martínez |
| Rock + Roll (Anthology) | Moutaz Jad |
| Runner | Adrian McNair |
| S-Watch | Joe Haar |
| Sasquatch Down | Casey Cooper Johnson |
| Seldon Seen | Peter R Feuchtwanger |
| Series W | Erin Conroy, Katie Novotny |
| Seville | Paul A. Mendelson |
| Sexy Teen Squad: Undercover Monster Hunters | Jon Bershad |
| She's Electric | Brandon Gale |
| Shelter County | Micah Taylor |
| Show People | Josie Andrews |
| Site 106 | Callum Campbell, Benjamin Green |
| Smart Puck | Ryan Anker |
| Space Captain Smith | John Palfery-smith, Bruce Hanson |
| Space Girl Liar | Tony Faria |
| Spacewiched | Isaac Smith |
| Spotter | Joshua Brine |
| Sprawled Out | Connor Savage |
| Stalemates | Daniel Van Nostrand |
| Stay | Janine DeMaria |
| Steve | Maryanne Melloan Woods |
| Storied Cloisters | Sacha Waters |
| Straight Up | Alexia Verbeke |
| Strange Events in Crimson Grove | Dino Sardella |
| Stuck Inside | Christopher Seehase |
| Stuck-Up Scumbags of the 8th Grade: Illustrated | Luke Johnson |
| Suit Stuff | Timothy Mason |
| Swan and Crow: The Tulum Machine | Vera Neverkevich, Katherine Eyres |
| Synchronized | Allie Jennings |
| Tamber Dawn | Benjamin Lewis |
| Team Player | Kris Crenwelge |
| The Administrators | Damien Higginbotham |
| The Amazingly Spectacular | Amelia Watson |
| The Andy Special | Andy Kozel, Stephen Laddin |
| The Anklebiter | Andy Jones |
| The Artificial Heart | Henry Mason |
| The Bad Yogis | Dan Zailskas |
| The Bat Boy | Ryan Dingus |
| The Betrothal | Jacob Menke |
| The Boswell Show | Zane McWilliams |
| The Companion | Christine Sneed, Michael Marcus |
| The Compound | Heather Stiteler, Mikaela Shwer |
| THE COOLERS | Steve Carey |
| The Day We Tried to Live | Sergio Padilla |
| The Diamond Exchange | Timothy Ammendola, Steven Wear |
| The End is Nearish | Rosario Pellerito |
| The Flutist | Justin Rubner |
| The Franchise | James Grayford |
| The Freshmen | Adam Karlson, Joe Hayes |
| THE GIRL, THE CAKE, AND THE COMEDIAN | Wesley Bernick |
| The Golden Age | Shaun McLaughlin, Tom Mason |
| The Happy Body Killer | Jonathan Hurtado |
| The Healdsburg Home for the Terminally Sexy | Pamela Weiss |
| The Heel | Glen Brackenridge |
| The Heist is Right | Anthony Giambusso, Nicholas Anthony |
| The Huntleys | Julia Ireland |
| THE ICE QUEEN | Rachel Feldman |
| The Incomer | LOUIS PAXTON |
| The Juantabo Sisters pilot: Birthday Gift | Candace Boulay |
| The Love Trials | Theodore James |
| THE MATRIARCHY | Philip Atlakson |
| The Mulligan | Jerry Perez |
| The Murder Trust | Jason Azziz |
| The Next Town Over | Brian Pack |
| The One True Sport | Philip Moynihan |
| The Optimist Club | Julianne Hall |
| The People Pleaser | Haley Melikian |
| The Pros and Cons of Dying | James Roberts |
| The Race | Barney Elliott, Conrado Falco Raez |
| The Rebound | Christian Wolf, Chase Badgett |
| The Run-Away | Matt Scruggs |
| The Shift | Chloe Holmes |
| The Shrink | Adi Blotman |
| The Spacer 6 | Alexandria Sinclair, Sara Detrik |
| The Spirit Of The Game | Tom Goodall |
| The Thingee | Casimir Nozkowski |
| The Weasel | Brianna Cohen |
| The Whole Shebang | Asher O'Briant |
| The Wizard's Unpaid Intern | Lindsay Gilman |
| The World's Largest Man | Harrison Key, Mark Blanton |
| The Wreck of the DOPE AF | Brandon Nelson |
| They Didn't See HIM Coming | Jolanta Kissoon Young |
| Travel Buddies | Amanda Jaros |
| Trip | Lee Matsumoto |
| TRYING | Mike Heller |
| Under Act | Nir Shelter |
| UNFINISHED | Eric Giancola, Tricia Olds |
| UNITED WE FALL | Linda Rogers |
| Unperfect Match | Ervin Anderson |
| Unusual Education | Dan Zailskas |
| US Inc. | Joel Michalak |
| Victoria Sucks | Daniel Lobrace |
| Volleyball! Or the Many Misadventures of the Pirates of Northgate | Alex Carroll, Cameron Martinez |
| VoyHer | Evan Pitt-Payne |
| Waking Up Dead | Tom Massmann |
| Water Cooler Nation | Nancy Safavi |
| Watersheds & Tinfoil Hats | Ryan Anker |
| WE ARE GOLDEN | Keri Lee |
| Weekend at Bernie's III | Craig Miller, Pete Johnson |
| Welcome to Jackson | Noah Frank |
| What We Know | Ashley Lenz |
| When Harry Took Hostages | Gerald Lenton-Young |
| Where's Kate | Keith Macri |
| WHITE BOYS | Shari Sharpe |
| Winter In My Heart | Adam Gaulke |
| Your Driver Is Here | M.P. Andretti |
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