Announcing the 2017 ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Contest Quarter-Finalists
by ScreenCraft on June 15, 2017
We’re excited to feature the scripts listed below that comprise the quarter-finalists of the 2017 ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Contest, culled from over 1,100 submissions--by far our biggest season ever! Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far, and thank you to everyone who submitted. Stay tuned for the semifinalists announcement on July 7th.
| 12 Steps | Justin | Hughes |
| 50 Ways | Sallie | Allen |
| 99 Glasses of Chardonnay | Tracy | Charlton |
| A Dog Show | Warren | Fischer |
| A Florida Man | Jamie | Bearse |
| A Goy And A Girl | Christopher | Eastwood |
| A Little Zing Called Love | Marilyn | Pederson |
| A State of Affairs | Jerico | Lenk |
| A Tiny Problem | Tate | Hanyok |
| Acid Spitting Baby Seals | Chris | Desmond |
| Adam & Eve | David | Kushner |
| Adam and Eve | Kate | Kelsen |
| Adult Material | Katrina | Day |
| Afterlife Hotel | Frank | Monti |
| Alice & Charlie | Travis | Lemke |
| All Else Fails | Abigail | Sparrow |
| Altar Me | Tony | Gapastione |
| America's Most Wasted | Sam | Skillz |
| American Hero | Mikhael | Bassilli |
| An Ocean Apart | Laura (LL) | Young |
| Another Beginning | Carmen | Nielsen |
| Anything For Money | Jonathan | Young |
| Asshole Poltergeist | Aaron | Barrocas |
| Authentic | Kate | Jaimet |
| Baby BUMP | Tate | Hanyok |
| Backdraft | Ty | Gordon |
| Bad Romance | Chad | Wellinger |
| Bear Necessity | James | Gould-Bourn |
| Beasts Undiscovered | Jeremy | Dehn |
| Beaver, Las Vegas | Elise | D'Haene |
| Bedbugs | Jose | Prendes |
| Best Served Cold | Mary | Krell-Oishi |
| Big Boys | Dean | Edelson |
| Big Turkey | Bruce | Griffiths |
| Bingo King | Jason | Skorski |
| Bricks of Glory | Alison | Parker |
| Broken Head | Clare | Sladden |
| Burying The Lead | Stacey | Davis |
| But Where Did You Last Put It? | Andy | Harrison |
| Cape Angel Blues | Carl | Clark |
| Catch 4:20 | Bruce | Butler |
| Chapter 4: I Blame The Beatles | Stephanie | Lavner |
| Cheat on Me | Reeve | Segal |
| Chicago Shuffle | Dennis | Capps |
| Clambaked | Jay | Huling |
| Cockblock | Justin | Boyd |
| College Bound | Ray | Cecire |
| Conquistadoro | Peter | Mann |
| Coping with Zombism | Ian | Van Den Hurk |
| Cracking The Whip | Nicole | Fairbrother |
| Crossed Swords | Alex | Shifman |
| Dead Air | Jonathan | McCandless |
| Dead Grandma | Zach | Vest |
| Dead Man's Hand | Ronald | Ecker |
| Dead, But Whatever | Boris | Coll |
| Desert Blume | Mark | Brown |
| Dick Driben Runs for Mayor | Daniel | Glick |
| DILF | Ryan | Dingus |
| Dizzy Izzy | Rizwanul | Haq |
| Don't Kill Me I'm Happy | Tobias | Hussey |
| Double Bogey | Tom | Radovich |
| Driver's Training | Kathleen | Reaume |
| Dying for It | Julia | Bergeron |
| East Side Girl | Max | Segal |
| Electric Man | David | Barras |
| Elf Help | Matt | Kriger |
| End of the Line | Rani | DeMuth |
| Engage & Destroy | Paul | Winchell |
| Escort Boot Camp | Gary | Sharp |
| Even Steven | Kirby | McDonough |
| Ex Addicts | Casimir | Nozkowski |
| F.O.R.C. (Former Olympian Re-Creation Camp) | Jared | Mazzaschi |
| Fairy Sugar Daddy | Zac | Kish |
| Father Figure | Michael | Kalesniko |
| Field Day | Chelsea | Bozzo |
| Finding Isabelle | Kali | Gagnon |
| Finding Mario | Kimon | Koufogiannis |
| Fixed | Jolene | Jahnke |
| Flaccid | Jonathan | Phillips |
| Floyd The Ninja | Jason | Skorski |
| For the Love Of... | Dawn | LeFever |
| For What It's Worth | Charlotte | Cameron |
| Forever and Never | Dante | Orange |
| Fort 20 | Derek | Kent |
| Fortune's Fool | William | Green |
| Fuck You, John | Zac | Kish |
| Full Moon Party | Mitchell | Gray |
| Full Society Reboot | Tim | Snook |
| Funnel Head | Susie | Shannon |
| Getting Lucky | Richard | McEwen |
| Ghost Bros. | Bill | Poore |
| Goodnight Girls | Marilyn | Pederson |
| Grandma Dee and the Lost Continent | Mark | Perlick |
| Grass Monkeys | Matt | Wildash |
| Grilled | Mia | Dingle |
| Group Therapy | Matthew | Kelly |
| Gunmetal Rose | Daniel Hart | Donoghue |
| H is for Happiness | Lisa | Hoppe |
| Hacks | Stephanie | Westendorf |
| Happy Endings Senior Living | Robin | Fusco |
| Hello Love | James | Tapp |
| Henchman | Andrew | Wood |
| Heterophobia | Steve | Miranda |
| High School VS. College | Nic | Harvey |
| Honeymoon in Hell | Adam | Libarkin |
| I'm Having An Affair With My Wife! | Jen | Finelli |
| If You Only Knew | Anja | Wykes |
| In a Band. In a Van. | Darrel | Herbert |
| In Love & On The Run | Jimmy | Grace |
| In the Hole | Nathan | Hudson |
| In Three | Erin | Carere |
| Incident on I-15 | Ben | Shupe |
| Inferenal | Tom | Wholey |
| Intelligent Life | Bruce | Luchsinger |
| Invasion of the Movie Snatchers | Daniel | Shinners |
| Isabelle's Starting to Happen | Paul | Haddad |
| It Takes One to Love One | Rodney | Wilson |
| Izzy Screwd | Rebecca | Taylor |
| Jack, the Stripper, and the Mormon | D. Max | Hamblin |
| Jamestown | Robbie | Robertson |
| Jeb! | Daniel | Rivera |
| Jefferson, Franklin & Larry | John | Martins III |
| Just Act Cool | Gary | Whorley |
| Just An Ordinary Guy | Riley | Madincea |
| just plain folk | eliot | sand |
| Karaoke Brothers | Lee | Matsumoto |
| kick bACK | RC | Atchisson |
| Killing It | Honora | Talbott |
| Kin Folk | Darren | Heffner |
| La Montaña (The Mountain) | Phil | O'Sullivan |
| Lackey | Zac | Kish |
| Last Christmas | Kate | Erickson |
| Let's Have a Threesome | Pyung | Kim |
| Life On Mars | Jason | Alvarado |
| Like a Thief in the Night | Kyle | D'Odorico |
| Little Gumshoe and the Naptime Blues | John | Bradley |
| Liv and Let Brenda | Jessica | Kinnevan |
| Longshot | Jason | Skorski |
| Love & Parsecs | Joe | Gonzales |
| Love Crush | Hamilton | Mitchell |
| Lucky Break | Eric | Landau |
| Mad Kat's Reign of Terror | Ash | Willeby |
| Mad Love | Patrick | Murphy |
| Madame Butterfly's Mad Jaunt | Barry | Leach |
| Maggie Rocks | Guy | Polin |
| Mall Stars | Erica | Fagan |
| Man | Paul Alexander & | Paul Mendelson |
| Man of Action | Esther | Geller |
| Mary, Mary | Wendy | Grube |
| Matelot and the Mob | De-ann | Black |
| Matt and Ben Bury a Body | Dan | Van |
| Max the Ax | Patricia | Meyer |
| MegaCon | M | Hatter |
| Michael Wants To Marry | Jennifer | Bieser |
| Millions and Millions | Alex | Shifman |
| Miss Jesus | Tim | Schildberger |
| Missile Envy | Kurt | Smith |
| Mortis | Tom | Radovich |
| Moses of the Bulrushes | Steve | Warren |
| Mr. Jacobs Versus the Demonic Party Clowns from the Great Beyond | Jeff | Folschinsky |
| Mr. Sabotage | Ray | Keller |
| Mrs. Bond | Kristi | Hall |
| Mystery Man | Erik | Howard |
| Necropolis | Dennis | James Clarke |
| Not My Emergency | Matthew | Conlin |
| Not So Super | Cooper | Knight |
| Nudie Mag | Kevin | Dembinsky |
| Office Pool | Eric | Monsky |
| Old People | Michael | Richey |
| Once More Before I Die | Helen | Wentland |
| Pageant Dad | Liam | Healy |
| Papryka | Natalie | Sanchez |
| Party Lines | Kathy | Rodman |
| Phil. | Marissa | Lessman |
| Photo Shop Girls | Trent | Meunier |
| Pie Fight | Richard | McEwen |
| Plan B | Paige | Gresty |
| Podunk | Jared | Mason |
| Polyamory for Dummies | Travis | Lemke |
| Poser | Susan | Boyer |
| POTUS | Daniel | Russell |
| Powderpuff | Chelsea | Watkins |
| Prank Wars | Chris | Erb |
| Pretty Much Fucked | Eric | Wong |
| Quality Time | Mike | Costaris |
| Rack it Up! | Thomas | Yungerberg |
| Rasta Ho-Tep | Peter | Fraser |
| Rebound | Warren | Glover |
| Red Dirt Blues | David | Wilson |
| Redirklus | Kevin | Shorter |
| Rematched | Jared | Knight |
| Revenge Therapy | Craig | Holland |
| Roadtrippers | Rebecca | de Fargues |
| Rocket Hudson | Curtis | Lofgren |
| Roll With It | Kate | Erickson |
| Roscoe | Gianpaolo | Santarelli |
| Rusty Trombone | Frank | Pasquine |
| Sam Rockwell Can't Die | Amy | Huckabay |
| Satan Comes to Town or It's a Helluva Life | Michael | Chase Walker |
| Scapegoat | Nan | Schmid |
| Scattering Jake | Erica | Tachoir |
| Scouting for Eden | Ian | Gilbertson |
| Second Chances | Mark | Arnett |
| Second Wind | Briana | Hansen |
| Sex, Drugs, & Bible Study | Rachel | Ewing |
| Sex, Drugs, and Murder at the Ellis Family Breakfast Jamboree | Joel | David Bolton |
| Shanghai Vaudeville | Alex | Shifman |
| Shit Happens | Dane | McCauley |
| SLAMMIN' | Brandon | Martin |
| Sleepover | Jonathan | Davenport |
| Southern Bud | William Craig | Pugh |
| Spitting Image | Troy | Smith |
| Spooky Kind of Love | Alicia | Lomas-Gross |
| Spoon Fed | Scott | LaFortune |
| Stand Fast | Ron Brawer & | Tom Wirtshafter |
| Star Witness: The Trial of Kimberly Rose | Ashley | Hargrove |
| Starr Brawl | Gerrard | Hartland |
| Starring Kip Donovan | Alex | Williams |
| Stay-cation | Giovanni | Porta |
| Streakers | Brian | Gannon |
| Stuffed | Mark | Keavney |
| Sugar Pill | RC | Atchisson |
| Super High Maintenance | Leo | Jenicek |
| Superfan | Chris | Smith |
| Surviving the Band | Vincenzo | Lucciola |
| Sweet Old Man | Andrew | Mescher |
| Sweet Sorrow | Kurt | Smith |
| Swipe Left for Love | Daniel | Axelrod |
| Tarkington House | Meg | Kelly |
| Test of Strength | Danny | Baram |
| That's My Time | Christopher | Rubeo |
| The Accidental Feminist | Blayr | Austin |
| The Advance Team | Paul | Carson |
| The Adventures of the Velvet Cat | Bob | Canning |
| The Afterlife of Erotica Evans | Harvey | Yazijian |
| The Alibi | Nicole | Serrat |
| The Barely Legal, Incredibly Hot, Psychotic Girlfriend of the Guy Next Door | Michael | Kenney |
| The Battling Bozoni | Steve | Drews |
| The Benny Factor | Mark | Pressman |
| The Bigfoot Hunters | Matt | Hausmann |
| THE BONING | Hamilton | Mitchell |
| The Book Tour | Aaron | Kennedy |
| The Bridge | Grant | Hughes |
| The Comfort Zone | Xaque | Gruber |
| The Compton Thrill Ride | Martin | Bartlett |
| The Court of Dionysus | Samuel | Spitale |
| The Creature Squad | Chris | Smith |
| The Deal Breaker | Stacie | Shellner |
| The Essential Rhett & Luther | Desirée | Proctor |
| The Ex Factor | Gary | Sharp |
| The Explorers' League of Exploration | Chad | Rhiness |
| The Facts In The Case of L. Lovelace | Andrew | Mescher |
| The Finger | Boim | Hwang |
| The Golden Nose | Eduardo | Torallas |
| The Good, The Bad and The Undead | Joe | Villanti |
| The Heist Before Christmas | Derik | Wingo |
| The Hippo in the Room | Tom | Bridger |
| The Hipster | Tracey | Conrad |
| The Hire | Bryan Koo & | Zach Tomlinson |
| The Instagram Murders | John | OBrien |
| The Last Blast | Carrie | Wachob |
| The Last Ugly Man | Peter | Alexander |
| The Letter Carrier | Christy | Rust |
| The Lovesong of Bryce Woods | Garrett | Haden |
| The Made Santa | Anthony | Palmiotto |
| The Married Guy Experience | Steve | Goodman |
| The Memphis Mafia | Jason | Williams |
| The Not Ready for Prime Time Family | Richard | Willett |
| The Perfect Petty Crime | Brett | Elliott |
| The Ploy | Stan | Himes |
| The Queen of Dairy | Vanessa | Pegram |
| The Quest (AKA: The Chronicles of Kate and Amy) | Toria | Sheffield |
| The Republic of Jack | Jeffrey | Kerr |
| The Resurrection Man | Blake | Hawk |
| The Romantics | Steven | D'Ambrose |
| The Route of All Evil | Paul | Marx |
| The Second Coming | David | Morgan-Brown |
| The Second Husband Project | Laura Sweeney | Julie Brimberg Rothschild |
| The Semester | Chris | Carrington |
| The Sharpest Knife | Julian | Barnett |
| The Slammer | Tara | Cocco |
| The Speed Walker | Greyson | Ferguson |
| The Stalker Cycle | Joe | Borg |
| The Teacher and the Bail Jumper | Ted | Gurich |
| The Transfer | Lori | Ochsner |
| The Triple Engagement | Robert | Troccolo |
| The Trophy Wife | Kevin | Cutts |
| The Truth Isn't Pretty | Patricia | Forrester |
| The Vagina Whisperer | Bill | Foley |
| The Vandals | Russell | Boswell |
| These Old Bones | Nathan | Oliver |
| This Time | Rosario | Pellerito |
| Throw Back Thursday | Lisa | Nardini |
| Till Death | Noah | Martin |
| Touch The Fire | Kevin | Karp |
| Tres Banditos | Thomas | Leupp |
| Two Weeks On | Pete | Monaghan |
| Un-American | Daniel | Kloberdanz |
| Underemployed | Adam | Santa Maria |
| Unlove Conquers All | Dane | McCauley |
| Unmaking Love | Evan | Laughlin |
| Venus In Transit | Carole | Chanler |
| Viva NashVegas | Jacki | Moss |
| We Happy Losers | Elizabeth | Eccher |
| Welcome to Comictopia | Michael | Chase Walker |
| Welcome to the Family | Matt | Firman |
| What a Wedding | Jeremy | Black |
| What the Halo? | Kevin | Hackenberg |
| When Monsters Ruled | Lena | Cigleris |
| When Pigs Fly | Andrew | Wood |
| White Sheets | Julius | Ritter |
| Wild Arms | Nguyen | Nguyen |
| Xtracted | Crafty | St. James |
| Yes We Can! | Marc & Nancy | Ellis |
| You Only Live Once | Haris | Orkin |
| You'll Make Lots of Friends That Way | Andrea | O'Malley |
| Your Heaven, My Hell | Charlie | Herrmann |
| Zombie Kush | Kyle | Little |
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