While our submissions for 2019 are still open, we thought it might be nice to reflect on some of the great acts we’ve hosted in the first 5 years of ...
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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 […]
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 […]
Improv, Stand-up, Podcasting, and Sketch Comedy Workshops
While we are busy finalizing our 10 day show calendar, we wanted to announce that our full workshop schedule and registration has opened. Next month in November instructors from Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, and Chapel Hill are making their way to Greenville, SC for 10 Improv, Stand-up, Podcasting, and Sketch Comedy Workshops. Each of […]
Improv Weekend Instructors Announced
With just a few days left to submit to perform, we wanted to announce the instructors for the improv weekend of the festival (Nov 14-17th). For the last several years we’ve brought the best improv instructors from New York, Chicago, LA, Austin, Minneapolis, and your favorite theaters across the southeast in Georgia, Florida, as well […]
6th Annual New South Comedy Festival Submissions are Open!
Applications are open for performing in the 6th annual New South Comedy Festival in Greenville, SC. For 5 years we have brought hundreds of comedy acts (North Coast, Magnet Tourco, Drum Machine, Julian McCullough, Magic Negro, Pop Roulette, Coworkers, Sister’s Three, Thunderstood) and workshops from the countries best instructors (iO, UCB, Magnet Theatre, The Pack, […]
Second Half of the Festival features (Even More) Comedy Shows and Workshops
We are halfway through and still have over a dozen comedy shows and half a dozen comedy workshops. Tonight at 7:30pm features stand-up comedy from Greenville’s very own No Expectations All-Stars. Then on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday it’s some of our favorite improv comedy from the Carolinas! For our final weekend of the festival we’ve got a huge […]
Festival Kickoff this Week 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 Charlotte, Louisville, Burlington, Raleigh, Charleston, and of course right here in the Greenville. Friday and Saturday has so many wonderful stand-up, sketch, and improv shows we can’t possibly tease them all here. However, we’ll highlight a few of our […]
Eric Hunicutt (The Reckoning) and Julie Granata-Hunicutt (Movement for Improvisers)
Our submissions have officially closed and the production is hard at work pouring over the almost 100 submissions. We’ll be reaching out to those accepted by mid-September and once confirmed, we’ll publish the full 10 day show schedule. While you wait, here are two more great instructors we have traveling in for the festival (in […]
Second City Hollywood Faculty and Performer Gillian Bellinger
We’re in our final week of performer applications and can now announce another festival instructor for our first weekend. Gillian Bellinger is an LA based improviser and corporate workshop facilitator. She can currently be seen in her Second City Premium show Trump in Space (directed by Frank Caeti), as well as with Westside Comedy’s House […]
First Festival Headliners and Instructors
As our submissions are still in full swing we are proud to announce some of this year’s New South Comedy Festival Headliners, starting with a New York Times Critics Pick, Sisters Three. Directed by Peter McNerney and starring Elana Fishbein and Elena Skopetos, Sisters Three is a fast paced, multi-character comedy about a family’s reluctant reunion. […]
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