New South Comedy Festival

Submissions to the festival have closed and we’ve got lots of great improv, sketch, musical, and stand-up guest to choose from.  In the meantime, we’ve got some great headliners to announce! Our stand-up headliner, Julian McCullough, has been featured on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Chelsea Lately, Inside Amy Schumer, and his own Comedy Central Presents […]

***SUBMISSIONS FOR THE FESTIVAL ARE CLOSED. FULL SCHEDULE RELEASED SOON!*** Applications are open for performing in the 3rd annual New South Comedy Festival in Greenville, SC. For the last 2 years we’ve featured hundreds of comedy acts from around the country to sold out crowds. We’ve also produced dozens of workshops with well known comedy instructors. […]

The 2nd annual New South Comedy Festival is a 4 day comedy event produced by the Alchemy Comedy Theater. Over 100 improv, sketch, and stand-up performers from across the country head to Greenville, SC November 11-14th! Featuring guests from NYC, Chicago, Orlando, St. Louis, Atlanta, Savannah, Iowa, Chapel Hill, Charleston, Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro, and right here in the […]

One of our favorites on the comedy festival circuit, Magnet Theater TourCo is heading to Greenville this fall for shows and workshops! The Magnet Theater is home to some of the top improvisation talent in the country. The Magnet TourCo brings this veteran talent together for an unbelievable showcase of long-form improvisation. Performing classic and […]

We are excited to announce our first headliner for the festival this year, musical sketch comedy from NYC’s Pop Roulette. Pop Roulette began in 2012 to meld their love of musical theatre and sketch comedy. Today Pop Roulette lives online and performs regularly at the People’s Improv Theatre in New York. Pop Roulette travels the country performing […]

Last year over 80 out-of-town improv, stand-up, sketch, and musical comedy had a dozen sold out shows. We had guests from NYC, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Richmond, Chapel Hill, Charleston, Raleigh, Wilmington, Charlotte, and here in Greenville, SC And we’re doing it again! Submissions close September 9th. Like last year, there will also be workshops from veteran […]

Here are some of the awesome comics performing from NYC, Chicago, Atlanta, Richmond, Charleston, Raleigh, Wilmington, and here in Greenville, SC. Seating is limited, it is suggested you pre-purchase tickets. Full show and workshop schedule are online!

Minneapolis’ Jill Bernard, Chapel Hill’s Zach Ward, NYC’s North Coast, and Charleston’s Greg Tavares will all be performing and teaching workshops for the festival.