New South Comedy Festival

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 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, […]

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 […]

Submissions are open to perform in the 5th annual New South Comedy Festival in Greenville, SC. This will be our biggest, funniest, and festival-est yet! For the last 4 years we’ve featured hundreds of comedy acts from around the country to sold out crowds. We’ve also produced dozens of workshops each year with well known […]

Los Angeles. Brooklyn, NY.  Rancho Cucamonga, CA. Atlanta. Tampa. Asheville. Upstate, SC. And that’s just in our first 2 days! Tonight begins day 3 with sketch comedy at 7:30pm, improv comedy at 9pm, and stand-up meets improv comedy at 10:30pm! Can’t make it tonight? We’ve got 4 shows tomorrow and then another 7 days of […]

Applications are open for performing in the 4th annual New South Comedy Festival in Greenville, SC. This will be our longest, funniest, and fourth-est yet! For the last 3 years we’ve featured hundreds of comedy acts from around the country to sold out crowds. We’ve also produced dozens of workshops each year with well known […]

We’ve got amazing improv and stand-up comedy headliners coming in the second half of the festival, but first there are several days of amazing sketch comedy from the Southeast and stand-up comedy from all coasts! Tonight at both 7:30 and at 9pm we’ve got stand-up comics from Charlotte, Atlanta, Knoxville, NYC, Los Angeles, and right here in […]

This fall will mark the 3rd annual New South Comedy Festival in Greenville, SC. This year we are expanding to 2 weeks in order to accommodate more varied types of comedy guests. The first weekend, will be predominately sketch comedy shows and workshops and the second weekend will focus on improv comedy. There will be stand-up comedy featured […]

We have dozens of comedy groups from NYC, Minneapolis, Richmond, Chapel Hill, Charleston, Raleigh, Wilmington, Charlotte, and here in Greenville, SC. Seating is limited, it is suggested you pre-purchase tickets. Full show and workshop schedule are online!