2024 ScreenCraft Comedy Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on June 5, 2024
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2024 ScreenCraft Comedy Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,700 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on June 26th on our blog and on our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram 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 Quarterfinalists:
| (The Making of) The Widowed Chocolatier | Nick Sconce |
| 11 Months Pregnant | Charis Tshihamba |
| 2nd Date | Jaik Andino |
| 3 Days in Galveston | Bryan Matthews |
| 80 AND OUT! | Steve Fisher |
| A Friendly Gathering Amongst Friends | Michael Arnold |
| A Questing Party | Caleb York |
| A Sorcerer’s Apprentice | Autumn Cavender, Scott Ryan |
| A Sure Thing | James Mangan |
| ABC(W.M.D) | Richard Hoffman |
| Abso-Positively | Elyssa Catalfano |
| Abuelas | Raquel Trujillo |
| Acting Out | Adam DesJardins |
| Ajnabiyeh | Batoul Mourad |
| Alicia&I | Nuno Soares, Mariana Garcia |
| Ally All Over Again | Monika Moreno-Lapp |
| American Monsters | Noah Jorgensen, Nolan Watt |
| And Also With You | Olivia Haller |
| Ars gratia Artis | Stefan Alexander, Eric Williford |
| Artistic License | Samuel Skoronski |
| Baby Pooty and the Bear | Brian Tuttle |
| Babylon: An Ancient Comedy | Anthony Zonfrelli |
| Back to Bellesville | Michael DiMarco |
| Bad Daughters | Anastazia Rae |
| Barry's Body | Kasi Brown, Brandon Walter |
| Basil King | Taylor Fredricks, Ryan Castro, Isaac Scego |
| Bikini Bombshell, or No, You Cannot Be A Superhero | Brian Szot |
| Birdie Boyz | Ryan Manning |
| Birthday Week | Emily Maya Mills |
| Black Cupid | Van Newman |
| Black Hole Block Party | Nickolas Jakimow |
| Blackout Jack | Jason Horvath |
| Bliss | Zef Husain |
| Blissful Acres | Alex Cannon |
| Boarding | Zachary Smith |
| Bogged Down | Anthony Zonfrelli |
| BONESMEN | Anushka Thorat |
| BOOKED | Charmaine Colina |
| Boom the Conqueror | Ana R. Dominick |
| Brad Brad and Brad | Auvray Andreas |
| Breaking Legs | Lindsay Ballif |
| Broken Toys | Mike Johnston |
| Brothers | Daphne Baiwir |
| BSMT | Annette Evans |
| Building Utopia | John Montgomery |
| Bumpin' Into Stardom | Miranda Bailey, Naomi Odes Aytur |
| Burying Granddad | Sam Harding |
| Camp Harleywood | Steven Ackley |
| Captain Gravy's Wavy Navy: "How Gravy Got Wavy" | Jeffrey Katz, David Cooper |
| Carneyval | Joanna Johnson |
| Caught Looking | Jake Wallinger |
| Caught Stealing | Eljohn Macaranas |
| Change of Pace | Gilda Hauser Porcari |
| Cheers, Queers! | Dillon Fernando |
| Chett's Chicks | Miranda Steinway |
| Chicken With Gun | Andrew Mister |
| Chivalry Is Dead | Sydney Ross |
| Claire and Marti Make a Pact | Marci Dodds |
| Clean Sweep | Isabelle Davis |
| COED BACHELOR PARTY | Chuck Oneil |
| Coffee Boy | Daniel Siegelstein |
| Colored People | Shannon Baker Davis |
| Come As You Were | Aidan Kilpatrick |
| Community Service | Graham Stone Johnson |
| Content Creators | James Mallon, Stephen Nicholls |
| Cougar Art | Hadasa Mercado |
| Cowtown | James Love |
| COZYTOWN | Tiffany Shaffer |
| Critical | Aidan Kilpatrick |
| Crohnie | Derek Mari |
| Crossfire | Davis Grant |
| Curses LLC | Thomas R. Wood |
| Dad Band | Greg Harvey |
| Daddy Baby | Phillip Roquemore |
| Daddy Issues | Alina Kulesh |
| Daughter Theresa | Izak Rappaport, Theresa Picciallo |
| Dead Jack | Markus Meedt, Jeremy DeCoursey |
| Dear, Ted Bundy | Jeremy Cordy |
| Deke & Gary | Steve Blair |
| Deliver Us | Liz Mitts |
| Delta Grammas | Amanda O'Donnell |
| Democrats Abroad | Lorenzo Newman |
| DemonTown | Bryan Rawlings |
| Dick | Michael Drake |
| Disabled Love | Clement Vallos |
| diSLexEA | Laura Santoro |
| Division Three | Sepehr Agnese |
| Divorceaversary | Alex Britten |
| Doll in the Family | Pamela Mora |
| Domestic wars | Piotr Rzepka, Katarzyna Górtat-Rzepka |
| Don's | Obi Ehn |
| Don't Do This To Me | Scott Fenton |
| Down The Shore | Hannah Schreiber |
| Dr. Jackie & Ms. Heidi | Diane Lansing |
| Dracula Wants to Die | Brenda LePage |
| Dreams Come True | Anne Silke Czichos |
| Dummies | Craig Welter |
| E*I*E*I*O | Max Pepose |
| El Bendejo | Martin Gomez |
| EPIC Fail | Tom Morris |
| Every Man for Himself | Mike Johnston |
| Ex-Royals | Chase Shanafelt |
| Expired | Wendy Braff |
| Faith to Faith | Frederic Chast |
| Family Bistro Kitchen | LeeAnn Patrick, Daniel Shinners |
| Family Trees | Sean Murphy |
| Fan Girl | Aleeza Benyona |
| Fanboy | Robbie Lemieux |
| Fat Things | Alene Latimer |
| Film School | Nadia Bonner |
| Florida Man | Steven Ackley |
| Forward Not Straight | Kelly Fulton |
| Fountain of Ruth | Maia Mulcahy |
| Frankenberg - Pilot | Alene Latimer |
| French Kiss | Leslie Tô |
| Fuck A.I. | Zeke Farrow |
| Gallery Row Pilot | Chad Neufeld |
| GAME OF THRONES, S3, Ep. 9: THE RAINS OF CASTAMERE (AN ALTERNATIVE TAKE) | Anthony Hyatt |
| GANG? | Chris Bazemore |
| Gangster Of Love | Michael Hoff |
| GILF | Annie MacKinnon |
| Glued to the Ground | Christie Smith |
| Godtown | Lawrence Davidson, Ryan Bright |
| Good F*ck Charm | Isabelle Davis |
| Grandmas 'N Gays | Michael Buonocore |
| Greetings From The Floodgates | Mary von Aue |
| GROWMANCE | Peter Noel |
| Growth | Casimir Nozkowski |
| Gunk | Ephi Stempler |
| H.U.N.K.S. | Danny Gendron, Sammi Wallschlaeger |
| Hail Larry | Evan Frondorf, Andrew Osentoski |
| Hal, The Spud King of Japan | John Thibault |
| Hallmarked for Murder | Jeremy Briggs |
| Halo-Halo | Glen Llanes |
| Hanx | Eric Laney |
| Hap-poly Ever After | Michael Maitland |
| Harry and the Sleigh | Carlton Welch |
| Hate You Even More (Now You're Dead) | Kate Austin-Raffan |
| Head Space | Dan Amernick |
| Held Back | Mike Johnston |
| Hello Again | Jeremy Jackson |
| Here To Help | Natasha Vinik, Lisa Mulligan |
| Hidden Springs | Sydney Giacomazzi |
| High & Dry | Paulina Luke |
| High Justice | Stevan Serban |
| HIGH STEPPIN' | John Boal, Ellen Alperstein |
| Hire Me, Santa | Katie Kerr |
| His Parents | Bryerly Long |
| History Tycoon | Amanda Pastunink |
| Hollyweird | Kerry Stevens |
| Holy Positions | Nicole Kohut |
| Horny Devil | Missak Artinian |
| Horse Girls | Meg Ruocco |
| How Do You Spell Ransom? | Jonathan Isshak |
| How Does That Make You Feel? | Daria Toptygina |
| Human Nature | Cooper OConnell |
| I Don't | Sara Becker |
| I Feel Your Pain | Stan Evans |
| I Think I'm A Satanist | Oliver Karp, Mark Nilon |
| I'm Gonna Fuck All Your Friends | Emily Clouse |
| Illicit Bids For Dying Kids | Phillip Roquemore |
| IN Security | Dave Beamish |
| InPanic | Puja Patel Rios |
| Inventure | Joshua Jashinski |
| Is That Cool? | Alex Klein |
| It's About to Get Very Irish (And I Need You to Be Ready) | Victoria Brooks |
| It's an OK Life | Lyle Feigenbaum |
| It's Christmas, Carol! | Divinity Rose |
| It's Yiddish, For Murder | Lee Stein |
| Jack-N-Jacqui go to In-N-Out | Kemp Connelly |
| Jarwick Castle | Alexia Buchholz |
| Jesus One-Stop | Frederik Ehrhardt |
| JEW(ISH) | Rachel Eddy, Bobby Eddy |
| Joe Herro: Virgin Cop | Bryan Rawlings |
| JOINT PAIN | Christopher DeBiasse |
| Jolly Squad | Victoria Clayton |
| Josh | Maria Carolan |
| Joystick | Jerry Hsu |
| Kevin! | Aidan Kilpatrick |
| Kiki and the Gang | Geno Marx |
| Kill Grandma | Patrick Poff |
| Killer Road Trip | Evan Rindler, Jon Rizik |
| KILLING SQUIRREL CREEK (A Howard Sterling Mystery) | Erik Howard |
| L'Aragosta (The Lobster) | Matthew Campanella |
| LA Nights | Arthur Glenn |
| Laundromat | Melissa Almonor |
| Lessons in Gravity | Sam Ellis |
| Lila (Who Used to be Straight Last Tuesday) | tristan mercado |
| Limping Towards Babylon | Julius Galacki |
| Liv 'N Death | Nicholas Faiella-Phillips, Owen Grozier |
| LONE WOLVES | Matt Foss, Cora Vander Broek |
| Look At This Photograph | Avery Regen |
| Loudmouth | Vincent Ware |
| Love Curse | Brian Moon |
| Love Is A Battlefield | Cole Depner |
| Love Me To Death | Chad Oliver |
| Love, Lies and Loopholes | Julia Hettmann |
| Lucía's Date for the Apocalypse | Jorge Moratal |
| Lucky Dogs | Joe Lawson, Chili Alvarez |
| Magic Camp | Liam Fitzgerald |
| Majix's Time | Paul Mroczka |
| Man Band | Lola Gilmore, Rileigh Sullivan |
| MANDATE | Kelly Younger |
| Mango | Ariane Friedman |
| Maria (Codename: Maria) | Riley Madincea |
| Middlehood | Alison McGrath |
| Midwife Crisis | Trace Pope |
| Millie's Village | Nick Poyner |
| Miserable Mildred | Trevor Suffield |
| Model Minority | Reese Harvey |
| MORE | Lynda Berger |
| Mother of God! | Rylee White |
| Mother's Day | Dicot Alvarado |
| Motivated | Nic Cohen |
| Motor City Monsters | Eric Kallevig |
| Mourning After | Kathleen Caprario-Ulrich |
| Mr. Sabotage | Ray Keller, Richard Schmidt |
| Multiverse Motel | Haley Cohen |
| MUTT | Sammy Anzer |
| My Lady Garden | Sally Llewellyn |
| My Name is Sanjit | Alan Slack |
| Nepo Baby | Jacqueline Fisher |
| Never Up, Never In | Paul Rudeen |
| New Beginnings | Barbara Wilkinson-Sykes, Nick Hughes |
| New Growth | Karimah Westbrook |
| Niño | Jordan Rongavilla |
| Noodles | Lexi Brandt |
| Not Responsible | Kelly Sater |
| Not That Deep | Gwen Thomas |
| Nuns With Guns | Mark Wakely |
| Nut House | Danielle Bishop |
| Of Paradise | Troy DeWinne, Allison Webster |
| Off Track | Rachael Migler |
| Old Dog | William Sterling |
| Old MacDonald County | Tom Zupicich, Gabe Moore |
| On the Inside | Michelle Fredericks |
| Only Option | Simon Owens |
| Orna & The Urn | Ellen Barry |
| Out of Water | Madi Stine |
| OUTSOURCED | Tony Ferrendelli |
| Outward Bound | Kyle Wassell |
| Overqualified | Ray Reboulet |
| Oy...A Jewish Comedy Series | Shara Ashley Zeiger |
| Paradise Plaza | Cole Rosenberg-Pach |
| PENELOPE'S WAR!! | Nancy "Sunny" Ellis, Marc L. Ellis |
| Pilgrims | Amy Sleper |
| Piss Party | Zac Branciforte |
| Plastic Jesus | Jeremiah Doherty |
| Play On | Kirsten Cornay |
| Polar Bear Hugs | Natalie Stone |
| Popcorn and Julio | Dale Trujillo |
| Preggo | Justin Sloan |
| Professor Patrick and the Prolapse | Helen Fowler |
| Promotion | William Butler |
| Psyched | Jeffrey Schick |
| PTA-Holes - Pilot - The Bakesale | Megan Grano |
| Public Access | Jordan Cipolla |
| Public TV | Anthony Wood |
| QB1 | Kate Aman, Alan Fu |
| Queen Machine | Eli Vazquez |
| Ready, Never | Emily Prescott |
| RICH | Rebecca de Fargues |
| Right Size | Julia Amaya |
| Rite Privilege | Casey Horowitz |
| RODEO | Lynn Elliott |
| Rosanna's Party | Matthew Edlin |
| Sad Gay Loser | Nathan Boyer |
| Santa's Baby | Jack Caswell |
| Schmoes | Kayla Rosenberg, Simone Lapidus |
| Seasonal | Cheryl Jones |
| Seattle Shadows | Anthony Kapelka |
| Second Stringers | Liz Tenan |
| Seducer | Anthony Clifton |
| Sex in Space | Ben Sasportas |
| Sex Talk | Jessica L. Folk |
| Sh*tstorm | Adrian Cunningham |
| Shady Glen | Jodi Teti, Steven Stiefel |
| Shecky the Shaman | Evan Schwartz |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Sussex Skull | Staton Rabin |
| Shotgun Springs | Adam Nix |
| Showroom! | Christopher Hruska |
| Sibling Games | Harris Gurny |
| Sibs | Megan Plank |
| Silver Coppers | Kera McKeon |
| Silver Shores | Daniel Bayliss |
| Sinistaar! | Kai Martin |
| Skinny Dipping | Harvey Yazijian |
| Sludge | Jen Butler |
| Snake Lake | H T |
| SO BRAVE | Kelly Bachman |
| Sober Living | Kasi Brown, Brandon Walter |
| SoCal Psychics | Luke Jarret |
| Sock it, '68 | Madelyn May |
| Son Of A Butch | Mike Carreon |
| Sophomoric | TJ Coughlin |
| SOS | Ruby Mainieri |
| Space Correspondent! | Michelle Lema |
| Space Salmon | Chadwick Harman |
| SPY OFF | Odin Ozdil |
| Squatters | James Barnes |
| Squawked | Ashley Murray |
| Starcrossed Lovers | Frank Victoria |
| Stewart | Whitney St Ours, Alyssa Abraham |
| Subpool | Thomas M Lindsey |
| Sunnyside | Michael Davison |
| Suspicious Minds | Roxanne Marciniak |
| Swindlers | Josh Miller |
| Talk To Me Like A Person | Casimir Nozkowski |
| Tandem | Rebecca Greensill |
| Tanking | David Rubino |
| TARA | Julia Silver |
| Tell Me More Tomorrow | David Sajadi |
| That Dirty B! | Laura Canty-Samuel |
| THAT F-ING DRONE | Janine DeMaria |
| The American Village | Nicholas Steinheimer |
| The Assistant | Araceli Sanchez |
| The Band | Kathryn Cehrs |
| The Bayfront | Jacob Hirsch |
| The Burg | Jack Cherry |
| The Caretaker | Joseph Mueller |
| The Church of Craig | Pierce Livingston |
| The Cursing Tree | Nan Schmid |
| The Detail | Jonah Einstein |
| The End | Jack Gorman, Shannon Walsh |
| The Envy of Ledd | Gary Irons |
| The Epic of Gil Hamish | Delani Wolf, Pat Duffy |
| The F.B.I. | Heidi Dudgeon |
| The Fairytale Effect | Sally Pitts |
| The Family You Choose | Garrett F. Baker, Cole Stryker |
| The Funeral Singers | Michael Maitland |
| The G.Y.M. | Dani Hanks |
| The Handoff | Ariel Palin |
| The Last Santa | Michael Rhodes |
| The Laughing Stock | Itai Adam Vagner |
| The Law Brothers | August Gladstone |
| The Life Coach | Rick Wagner |
| The Long Con | Brian Devaney |
| The Maestro Method | Vladimir Moskovkin |
| The Making of the Garfield Guy | Jeff Longsworth |
| The Miracle Squad | Ray Keller |
| The Mob and I | Mark Wakely |
| The Mojave Experiment | Chinisha Scott |
| The New Show | Alex Perry, Caden Pace, Kai Tatroe |
| The Off Base Pass | Nicholas Hawks |
| The Other Side | Amy Charlesworth |
| The Parking Enforcer | Jonathan Rubenstein |
| The Perfect Marriage | Garrett Box |
| The Philosophy of a College Dropout | Cassie Carlyle, Joseph Bodner |
| The Politician | Khadija Diakite |
| The PR Team | Fiona Kida |
| The Redemption of Nash Daniels: Infamous Basketball Legend | Jimmy Cuty, Elliot Montesi |
| The Resurrectionists | Jon Wierenga, Jay Thomas |
| The School for Cissies | Marcus Crawford Guy |
| The Seven Deadly Digits | Sam Wiens |
| The Short Sword | Kera McKeon |
| The South American | Angelo Dania |
| The Squire | Andrew Jenner |
| The Summer Nanny | Hayley Zablotsky |
| The Tam Show | Ryan Luong |
| The Toledo War | Scott Saffran, Stephen Kipp |
| The Very Last Ponderosa | Zebidiah Millett |
| The Very Special One | Heidi Hornbacher |
| The Volleyball Movie: Rick Dawson Spikes Back | Lizzie Boeck, Brittany Diamond |
| The Way You Look Tonight | John Cerrito |
| The Witches of HR | Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel |
| The World Out There | Andy Gillies |
| The Write Guy | Ansley Gordon |
| There Is Always Hope Beyond What You See | John Fisher |
| This End Up | Michael Ackerman |
| This Looks Like A Job For... | Indi Vercamer |
| Thoughts And Prayers | Jennifer Lance, Max Lance |
| Tiki Bar Funeral Home | Amy DePaola |
| Time Tourists | Josh Miller |
| TO THE MOON F.C | Remy Bazerque |
| To The Top | Cynthia Mersten |
| Touchwood | Amy Charlesworth |
| Toughen Up | Brandon Hackett |
| Trash | Lily Blumkin |
| Trauma Bonding | Daniela Pagliarello |
| Tree Hugger | George Edinger |
| Tremendo Mission | Victoria Freyre Adler |
| Truant Officers | Eric Landau |
| Tune In Turn On Love | Mary Ann Koenig |
| Twenty5 | Shalice Coutu |
| Two And 1/2 Weeks | Lou Wollin |
| Undead Madness | Caroline Chadbourne |
| Unhinged | Jacqueline Fisher |
| Unified Hands | Aaron Johnson |
| Upstaged | Jacob Rosenbaum, Benjamin Raffalli |
| V in the D | Lara Sfire |
| Valley Dicks | Sam Allemang |
| Volstead | Emily Parker |
| WANT | Jessica Tang |
| Weeks on End | Candler Proffitt |
| Welcome to Dalwood | Joshua Young |
| Wendybot | Kasi Brown, Brandon Walter |
| What Did I Do? | David Colicchio |
| What Remains | Joao Nsita |
| What We Do | Antonio Sacre |
| What's Up Now?! | Marcus Wade, Jess Gelber |
| Wheeler's Wagons | Matilda Thorpe, Michael Vivian |
| White Lies | Margaux Poupard |
| Who Let the Wallflowers Out? | Virginia Austin |
| Winners | Nora Heidenreich |
| Wintucky High | Thomas Schoch |
| Work Is Torture | Chris Pecchenino |
| Working On It | Brendan Sullivan |
| WUELA | Patricia Chavez |
| Yellow Cabin | Kent Perlmutter |
| You Probably Think This is About You | Sarah Lai |
| Your Dad Only Dies Once | Zach Zimmerman |
| Zombie Dick | Berlyn Lee, Joseph Stramm |
| ZOMBS | Megan Lynch |
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