10th Annual New South Comedy Festival Submissions are Open!

Applications are open for performing in the 10th annual New South Comedy Festival in Greenville, SC. For 9 years we have brought hundreds of comedy acts like North Coast, Magnet ...

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10th Annual New South Comedy Festival Starts Soon!

The 10th annual New South Comedy Festival will feature over 150 stand-up, improv, sketch, and musical comedy performers from across the country from November 2-11th, 2023! Shows are workshops are online now so reserve your seat!

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9th Annual New South Festival Starts THIS Week!

The 9th annual New South Comedy Festival will feature 20 stand-up, improv, sketch, political, and musical comedy shows with guests from across the country from November 3-12th! Go here for individual tickets or our $50 all-festival pass (over $300 value)! Also, our guest comedy workshops are filling up fast, but all have a few spots […]

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Festival Workshop Registration is Open!

With our performance tickets about to go live, we wanted to announce our instructors for both weekends of the festival. This year we’ve got improv, stand-up, and musical comedy classes with guest instructors from New York, Los Angeles, and Atlanta! For a full description and links to register head over to our Workshops Page.

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9th Annual New South Comedy Festival Submissions are Open!

Applications are open for performing in the 9th annual New South Comedy Festival in Greenville, SC. For 8 years we have brought hundreds of comedy acts like North Coast, Magnet Tourco, Jill Bernard (Drum Machine), Julian McCullough, Magic Negro, Pop Roulette, Coworkers, Sister’s Three, Craig and Carla Cackowski, Thunderstood, Seth K. Thomas (Defiant Thomas Brothers), Nick Armstrong […]

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1st Week Workshop Instructors

With our performance tickets about to go live, we wanted to announce the instructors for the 1st week of the festival. Two of our workshops are already sold out (our Teen and College classes), but we’ve got tons of improv, stand-up, and writing classes all festival long! For a full description and links to register […]

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2nd Weekend Workshop Instructors

With our performer submissions now closed our production team is hard at work reviewing videos. In the meantime, we wanted to announce the instructors for the 2nd weekend of the festival (Nov 12 & 13th). For the last several years we’ve brought the best improv instructors from across the country. This year is no different. […]

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8th Annual New South Comedy Festival Submissions are Open!

Applications are open for performing in the 8th annual New South Comedy Festival in Greenville, SC. For 7 years we have brought hundreds of comedy acts (North Coast, Magnet Tourco, Orange Tuxedo, Co-Workers, Drum Machine, Julian McCullough, Magic Negro, Pop Roulette, Coworkers, Sister’s Three, Thunderstood) and workshops from the countries best instructors (Second City, iO, UCB, […]

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Digital Workshops and Instructors Announced

As we finalize our performance schedule, we are excited to announce our digital instructors for this year’s festival. For the last several years we’ve brought some of the best classes from across the nation and this year is no different. As usual we have improv, sketch, and stand-up comedy workshops. Head over to our Workshops […]

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7th Annual New South Comedy Festival Submissions are Open!

Applications are open for performing in the 7th annual New South Comedy Festival. This year because of COVID-19, all shows will be run online from will be November 12-15th, 2020! We are accepting acts that can go live from their stage or live via Zoom. We are also accepting more professional video submissions for acts […]

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Comedy Festival Begins Tonight with Stand-up, Sketch, and Improv Comedy

This Thursday at both 7:30pm and at 9:00pm the festival starts off with stand-up comics from New York City, Atlanta, Raleigh, and across South Carolina. Friday and Saturday has so many wonderful stand-up, sketch, and improv shows and workshops scroll down and we’ll highlight a few of our festival picks. Friday night features 4 different […]

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