2024 ScreenCraft Comedy Competition Winners

Listed below are the Winners 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!

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Here are the Winners:

Grand Prize Winner

The Resurrectionists by Jon Wierenga and Jay Thomas

A period comedy about a brilliant nurse desperate to become Victorian London’s first female doctor who takes up grave robbing to master human anatomy and runs afoul of menacing gangs and misogynist doctors. (Half-Hour Pilot)

Feature Winner

Bliss by Zef Husain

When jaded single mom Kathy Keating visits her ex-husband at his secluded upstate home, she falls in love with him all over again, only to discover that he's concealing a terrifying secret: his house is bound to an old witch’s love spell, and all who know its power are willing to kill for it.

TV Pilot Winner

Mango by Ariane Friedman

When Alice gets blindsided by a proposal from her long term boyfriend, she responds by asking to open up their relationship. But this small step for Queer Woman, giant leap for Queer Womankind has immediate consequences — throwing her relationship into disarray as she realizes he will be dating other people too. Alice has made her bed, and now she’ll have to f**k and suck in it. (Half-Hour Pilot)

Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum Mentorship Winner

Change of Pace by Gilda Hauser Porcari

After an overachieving millennial goes into a-fib on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, she gets sent kicking and screaming to an oovey-groovy yoga retreat, where she learns to deal with the emotionally charged childhood she has spent her life trying to escape through work. (Half-Hour Pilot)

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