Announcing the 2019 ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Contest Semifinalists
Listed below are the semifinalists for the screenplay and concept categories of the 2019 ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Contest, selected from nearly 1,000 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far, and thanks to everyone who submitted. The jury this year includes a producer from Bradley Cooper & Todd Phillip's Joint Effort, executives from Ben Stiller's Red Hour Films and Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions, and a literary coordinator from Artists First Management.
The winner of the concept category will receive an exclusive developmental mentoring prize package with Joseph Garner of Joint Effort.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the finalists and grand prize winner here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!
And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries in 2020, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the semifinalists:
Screenplay Category:
| 432 Park Avenue | Tal Almog |
| A Bloody Affair | Scott Jeschke |
| A Carol | Rebekah Hughes |
| Alexa Pops Up | Rylan Rafferty |
| Altar Ego | Alexandra Keister |
| Ambush in Courtroom D | Michael de Silva |
| At the Hip | Rakel Joyce & Ryan Geffert |
| Balkan-ish | Ani Jarrett |
| Breaking the Law | Heather MacArthur & Kerry Anderson |
| Bun in the Coven | Sara Lohman |
| Charlie Goes to Peru | Eljohn Macaranas |
| Chassie Loves Satan | K.K. Wootton & Ben Fasching-Gray |
| Cold Feat | Trent Tackbary |
| Cooking4Luv | Tony Bracy |
| Covfefe | David Gero, Tahir Jon |
| Derby Queen | Wendy Moulton Tate |
| Eleven Thirty-Five | Motown Maurice |
| Fag Hags | Simon Corfield & Kim Taylor |
| Fake It 'til Ya Make It | Alexander Carver |
| Family of Sons | Andrew Templeton |
| Felix's Bar Mitzvah | Sammy Sultan |
| Finding Cumberbatch | Ivan Tsang |
| Fitter Families | Caitlin Scherer |
| FUJH | Margaret Colligan |
| Funeral of a Lifetime | Sarah Newton |
| Glorious Mack | Vern Lien |
| Graduate Assassin | Barry Ambrose & Armand Kachigian |
| Grand Thef Rental | Beatrice Lovett |
| Grave | Heather Ellingwood |
| Heroman | Timucin Leflef |
| Holy Fool | Kenneth Butler |
| Homesick | Michelle Harper |
| Honour | Richard Sloggett |
| Hugh Jackman Stole My Husband | Maisie Culver |
| Industrial Musical | Carolyn Cameron |
| Italy in August | Andrew Stone |
| Jason and the Silent Knight | Eric Sandefur |
| Juicy Hotdogs | Aaron Kozak |
| Just Shoot The Fucking Deer | Robert Lowe |
| Kernel Panic | Eric Wong |
| Love Sick | Sherrill Schmidt |
| Love's Faire Game | Robert Tolz |
| Manapult | John Taylor |
| Max's Journey | Jerome Dean |
| Minor Irritations | Sam Peter Jackson |
| Mother of the Bride | Tyler Kempf & Lauren McCarthy |
| Murph | Leanna Adams |
| Nomads | Brent Hartinger |
| None That I Know Of | Patricia Jones |
| Now I'm Dating Chicks | Stacy Keane |
| Nutcrackers | Chrissy Lessey |
| Old People | Michael Richey |
| Old Scratch | Tyler Moore |
| One Summer Night at the Royal Athenian | Margaret MacDonald |
| Perfect copy | Chris Webb |
| Possessive | Ervin Anderson |
| Postpartum | Brie Mitchell |
| Princess Royale | Karel Ebergen & Jonathan Rechter |
| Proudly Made in Buffalo | Erick Pausz |
| Raw Data | Gareth Wronski |
| Remakers of the Lost Ark | Jonathan Meltzer |
| Rodeo Clown School | Stan Williamson |
| Ron Runs For Mayor | Roy Rhodes |
| Roomies | Gareth Wronski |
| Sadie Slay | Rosario Pellerito |
| Saigon Special | Kyle Little |
| Saving America | Michael Lederer |
| Shakespeare & Marlowe | Chris ONeill |
| She's Got Cojones | esther geller |
| Singletown | Alex Klein |
| Soy Off | Odin Ozdil |
| Starting Over | Curt McCray |
| Stone Cold Crazy Mother Tucker | Katterina Powers |
| Str8 to the Altar | Devin Lotfi |
| Suicide at Area 51 | Jac Roberts |
| The Bad Driver | Russell Smith |
| The Bayside Boyz | Zachary Swickey |
| The Bijou Chronicles | Demetra Pittman |
| The Chemistry of Joy | Monique Patterson |
| The Curse Of The Cum Rag | Matt Clemons |
| The Feminine Side | Stephen Woodworth |
| The Franchise | James Grayford |
| The Further Adventures of Jimmy Lynch | Robert Rossetti |
| The G.O.A.T. | Sid Patwa |
| The Good News Desk | Judith Coppinger & Megan Day |
| The Reality of Dirk Fathom | James Sweeney |
| The RomCom | Rafael Diez |
| The Sherwood Forest | Christian Wolf |
| The Steven of Planet Earth | David Sajadi |
| The Wedding Toaster | Elisabeth Tyler |
| This Is the Year | Jerome Velinsky |
| Till Debt Do Us Part | Mirana Comstock & Elizabeth Joyce |
| Tinderella | Jane Henning |
| Together Again | Owain Paciuszko |
| Toy Box | Steve Holinsworth |
| Turf Wars | Kelsey Ross |
| Turnover | Matthew Borlik |
| Two Legs for Bubba | Jeremy Filiatrault |
| UFO Phil | Eric Huffman |
| Unvali-Dated | Joe Borg |
| Upbeat | Jessica Keaveney & Pam Przybylski |
| Victoria's Dirty Secret | Heather MacArthur & Kerry Anderson |
| Wanna Be Spies | Terence Murphy |
| We Love Celebrities | Tom Slevin |
| When the Joke Tells You | Peter Gazdag |
| White Lie Wedding | Whitney Powell |
| Yes, And... | Christine Sneed |
| Yule Logs & Snow Balls | Don Ammon |
Concept Category:
| Do As I Say | Jenny Chang |
| Don't Let Me Down | Nick Boocock |
| How To Be Paki | Vedesh Nath |
| JavaGinas | Denisha Read |
| King of the Spiders | Matthew White |
| Mourning After Pitch | Kathleen Caprario-Ulrich |
| Pox: A Dirty Love Story | J.J. Bitters |
| Super Villain | Troy Graham |
| They Knew too Much | Eric Seale |
| Three Unwishes | Troy Graham |
| Wedding Day | Allison Hogge |
| Win Streak | Chaco Daniel |
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