New South Comedy Festival

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!

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 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), […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]