2017 ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Contest Semifinalists Announced

by ScreenCraft on July 7, 2017

Listed below are the semifinalists of the 2017 ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Contest, comprising the top 5% of entries received.

Congratulations to these writers, along with the quarter-finalists, and thank you to everyone who submitted. Stay tuned for the announcement of the grand prize winner in early August here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages!

A State of Affairs	Jerico	Lenk
Acid Spitting Baby Seals	Chris	Desmond
Anything For Money	Jonathan	Young
Bingo King	Jason	Skorski
Broken Head	Clare	Sladden
But Where Did You Last Put It?	Andy	Harrison
Chicago Shuffle	Dennis	Capps
Cockblock	Justin	Boyd
Dead Grandma	Zach	Vest
Dying for It	Julia	Bergeron
Engage & Destroy	Paul	Winchell
Flaccid	Jonathan	Phillips
Fuck You, John	Zac	Kish
Ghost Bros.	Bill	Poore
Grandma Dee and the Lost Continent	Mark	Perlick
Group Therapy	Matthew	Kelly
H is for Happiness	Lisa	Hoppe
Henchman	Andrew	Wood
Heterophobia	Steve	Miranda
Honeymoon in Hell	Adam	Libarkin
Last Christmas	Kate	Erickson
Like a Thief in the Night	Kyle	D'Odorico
Liv and Let Brenda	Jessica	Kinnevan
Lucky Break	Eric	Landau
Maggie Rocks	Guy	Polin
Max the Ax	Patricia	Meyer
Missile Envy	Kurt	Smith
Mrs. Bond	Kristi	Hall
Mystery Man	Erik	Howard
Office Pool	Eric	Monsky
Once More Before I Die	Helen	Wentland
Plan B	Paige	Gresty
Quality Time	Mike	Costaris
Sam Rockwell Can't Die	Amy	Huckabay
Sex, Drugs, and Murder at the Ellis Family Breakfast Jamboree	Joel	David Bolton
Spoon Fed	Scott	LaFortune
Stand Fast	Tom Wirtshafter	& Ron Brawer
Stuffed	Mark	Keavney
Swipe Left for Love	Daniel	Axelrod
Test of Strength	Danny	Baram
The Advance Team	Paul	Carson
The Alibi	Nicole	Serrat
The Barely Legal, Incredibly Hot, Psychotic Girlfriend of the Guy Next Door	Michael	Kenney
The Good, The Bad and The Undead	Joe	Villanti
The Hire	Bryan Koo	Zach Tomlinson
The Letter Carrier	Christy	Rust
The Perfect Petty Crime	Brett	Elliott
The Ploy	Stan	Himes
The Quest (AKA: The Chronicles of Kate and Amy)	Toria	Sheffield
The Slammer	Tara	Cocco
The Triple Engagement	Robert	Troccolo
Welcome to Comictopia	Michael	Chase Walker
You Only Live Once	Haris	Orkin
You'll Make Lots of Friends That Way	Andrea	O'Malley