2021 ScreenCraft Comedy Competition Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on July 7, 2021
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2021 ScreenCraft Comedy Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 3,100 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on August 4th here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages! And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the Semifinalists:
| "Single A.F." | Tosin Morohunfola |
| Agnostic | Kyra Brown |
| Alert Level: Silver | Danielle Schwartz & Briana Shucart |
| Amateurs | Vishnu Akella |
| And We Danced | Weston Funk |
| Baby Gay | Joseph Servodio |
| Bad Business | Andrew Adams |
| Badass | Noni Salma |
| Baggage | David Lamberston |
| Band Freaks | Jeff Hupp |
| Band of Boyfriends | Steve Anthopoulos |
| Blackmetal | Patrick Byrne & Kevin Cronin |
| Blue State | Liz Beall |
| Borderline Depressed | Amanda Verwey |
| Broom Goes the Dynamite | Jeffrey Field |
| Butch | Holly Austin & Zoe McDonald |
| Callbacks | Bryce Marrero |
| Chivalry | James Yantko |
| Christopher Pan | James Yantko |
| Chubby Lubby | Antoinette Scherer |
| Cicada Summer | Andrew Adams |
| Colorless | Lisa Camilla La Colla |
| Communists | Irving Ruan |
| Considerable Shortcomings | Brenda LePage |
| Cornfield Horrors | Shar Carter |
| Crazy Cat Lady | Carrie McCray |
| Cusp | Sid Patwa |
| Dog***t: A Love Story | Layla Jaye |
| Dad Band | Michael Harlow & Jeff Melvin |
| Dammit, Dina! | Christina Shaver & Diona Oku |
| Did You Say Blood? | James Yantko |
| Diet Starts Monday | Sam Fickman |
| Don't Worry About It | Melissa Kong |
| Emotional support | Veronica Reyes-How |
| EPIC Fail | Tom Morris |
| Erogenous Zone | Sunny Sawhney |
| Every Little Thing I Wished I Said To You | Taylor Whitehorn |
| Exorcist Stage Left | Neer Shelter & Tai Scrivener |
| Exposure | Michelle Aldridge |
| Family Fortune | Elizabeth McKenzie |
| Family Planning | Howard Waxman |
| Fermentation | Christine Garver |
| Fernando's Last Stand | Jason Harriman |
| Finally Ever After | Cristina Williams |
| Finding Ben | Debby Huvaere |
| Fishbowl | Marisa Martinez Rodenbaugh |
| Gan-Gan, Get Your Gun | Bailey Inman |
| George + Dolly 3374 | Charles Maclay |
| Get Happy | Thomas Douglas Mann |
| God Save The Queen | Michael "Mickey" Falcone |
| Good Tidings From The Realm | Dan Tappan |
| Grand Junction | Patricia Parisi |
| Greener Pastures | Steve Messner |
| Ham | Mel House |
| Happy Camper | Adam Rottler |
| Her Name is Cherry | Caitlin Bell |
| Hit the Road, Jack | Paul Hand & Brett Stanning |
| Hoe-Mission | Eric Pou |
| How To Snatch A Crown | Dan Hass |
| I Love You, Margot Robbie | Sav Rodgers & Taylor Gates |
| Imaginary Friends | Amanda Prager |
| IT Girls | Jess McLaughlan |
| Jaded | Sid Patwa |
| Kaijus & Yous | Benjamin Lewis |
| Killing for a Living | Sherice Griffiths |
| Leave Me Be | Philip Weinman |
| Life Coach | Karl Williams |
| Life On My Knees | Robin Uriel Russin & William Missouri Downs |
| Lila Tov | Elana Rubin |
| Little Bob | Robert Troccolo |
| Little Dick | Rafael Friedan |
| Love Big | Lydia Fiore |
| Lowdown Dirty Tricks | Conor Walsh |
| Madison P.I. | Harry Ford |
| Magical tTinking | Ely Kreimendahl |
| Magnet For A Miracle | Michael Gibney |
| Make New Friends | Rodney Uhler |
| Mediocre Man! | Lyric Fergusson |
| Meta | Kathi Castoro |
| Mexicans Are White People Too | Jonathan Lopez |
| Minimum Rage | Brandon Burkhart |
| Monster Control | Keith Schneider |
| My Mom's Fucking Pete Davidson | Chelsea Gray |
| No | Laura Stubbs |
| Oh My Darling | John Flynn & Jimmy Flynn |
| Old Soul | James Vasco |
| One More Time! | Paul A. Mendelson |
| Out to Pasture | Carlton Norris |
| Over My Dead Body | Amal Awad |
| Pants on Fire | Aidan O'Loughlin |
| Paul Rudd's In Trouble | Nick Williams & Marty Abbe-Schneider |
| Peasants | Kristina Grosspietsch |
| Polarized | Tom Mishra |
| Politically Incorrect | Lindsey Gudritz |
| Prideless | Ethan Rushmeyer |
| Proud Marys | Jennifer Paz |
| Quest for the Madeleine | Anthony Butters |
| Rap Therapy | John Lowe |
| Re-takes | Moira James-Moore |
| Reaching for Rye | Andrew Guerrero |
| Recovery Room | Michael Lopez |
| Related | Tevin Knight |
| Riftworld | E. R. Roberts |
| Road to Bernal | Guillermo Lozano Martínez |
| Rocky Road | Amechi Ngwe |
| Running On Sand | Yoav Hebel, Asaf Zelicovich, Sarel Piterman & Adar Shafran |
| Sanmouth P-P.D. | Douglas Lennox-Salinas |
| Saturday Night Lesbian | Tracie Laymon |
| Secret Putin | Mackenzie Horras |
| Sexual Ealing | Sammy Sultan & Bec Pecaut |
| Slush Turtles | Celia Ramsey |
| Smallwood | David Page |
| Soft Serve | Jordan Wilson |
| Something Murdered | Liz Benham |
| Spies Among Us | Andrew Lee |
| Suburban Queen | JJ Duffy |
| Sunset Oaks | Noah Miller |
| Superfreak | Sierra Hall |
| Sure-Fire | Michael Goldburg, Dave Chan & Steve Wisniewski |
| Tales of Ardrardobard | Alyssa Scholl |
| Taller Than You | Karthik Raj |
| Tanuki - Man! | Jordan Guingao |
| The "Someday..." Play | Russell Paris |
| The Amicable Horror | Brennan Gilpatrick & Erin Walsh |
| The Barn Mitzvah | Ilisa Aaron Parrish |
| The Big One | Dru Johnston |
| The Big Swindle | Greg Fortier |
| The Cast Party | Adam Patla |
| The Devil You Know | Chris Weber |
| The Documents! | Johnny Cruz |
| The Family Business | Eva Wakeford |
| The Fat Trap | Kasi Brown & Brandon Walter |
| The GarbageMan | Dru Johnston |
| The Grandmother | Robert Rossetti |
| The Half | Alan Kelly |
| The One-Fifth | Lisa Lewis |
| The Privateer | John Graney |
| The Psychedelic Fist | Nicholas Sennott |
| The Sitch | Maxson Davis |
| The Sleigh Bell Curve | Steven Butler |
| The Squawker | Craig Peters |
| The Trials of Job | Curt McCray & Kent McCray |
| The Understudy | Jenna St. John |
| The Worst Years | Gianfranco Cuoco |
| Toonmates | Seth Finkelstein |
| Twenty-Five Years - To Life | Monica Schimmer |
| Two Fine Lines | Hannah Cha |
| Ungodly | Gracie Schufreider |
| Vagrant | Jeanette Campbell |
| Walden | Jamie Laski |
| Wannabe | Allison Torem |
| We Got Spirit | Leslie Chacon |
| What About the Ghost? | Nate Huntley |
| When Horror Met Sally... | Ervin Anderson |
| Whittier Blvd. | Roxana Altamirano |
| Write Me Off | Alex Tackett |
| Yes, And...No, But... | Christine Sneed |
| Youth Ministry | Laurie Magers |
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