MAY 17-19

Pitchfest is a festival of pilots & one-person show brought to life onstage by your favorite comedians. So much better than reading scripts on an iPad, right? Work featured in the inaugural Pitchfest recently sold and is in development with a major comedy network. Come see the TV shows of tomorrow.

Staged live @ Eris + live-streamed.

Produced by Jose Acevedo and the BCC in partnership with the Cramer Comedy Newsletter.

SCHEDULE & CASTS

FRIDAY, May 17

Featured

May 17

7:00 PM – 8:10 PM19:00 – 20:107:00 PM – 8:10 PM

Craps!

7:00 PM – 8:10 PM19:00 – 20:107:00 PM – 8:10 PM

Sylvie Borschel was a blackjack dealer at a casino and now she's taking you behind the table and into the chaotic world of dealing in this full hour of characters, storytelling and stand up.

SOLO SHOW

Written by and featuring: Sylvie Borschel

Tickets and Livestream Link

7:00 PM – 8:10 PM19:00 – 20:107:00 PM – 8:10 PM

May 17

8:30 PM – 9:40 PM20:30 – 21:408:30 PM – 9:40 PM

Gay Demonz

8:30 PM – 9:40 PM20:30 – 21:408:30 PM – 9:40 PM

Downtown comedy queens Drew Lausch & Zach Teague star in an hour long musical about mothers, fathers, friendship and poppers. GAY DEMONZ follows Zach & Drew as they experiment with mystery drugs in Brooklyn, grapple with their less-than-perfect childhoods and prove to the audience that even Satan can’t tear this friendship apart.

SOLO SHOW

Written by and featuring: Drew Lausch & Zach Teague

Tickets and Livestream Link

8:30 PM – 9:40 PM20:30 – 21:408:30 PM – 9:40 PM

SAT, MAY 18

Featured

May 18

6:00 PM – 6:40 PM18:00 – 18:406:00 PM – 6:40 PM

Hole

6:00 PM – 6:40 PM18:00 – 18:406:00 PM – 6:40 PM

Welcome to HOLE, a bizarre world full of garbage rainforests, sassy stalagmites, slime springs, and snail high schools. When two misfit middle school girls fall into this ancient and mysterious underground world, they befriend a living pile of trash (gross). And if these three dinguses want to get home in time for Bat Mitzvah season, they’re gonna have to work together. But what does home mean when you never really liked it anyway?

PILOT

Written by and featuring: Ashley Glicken, Carly Silverman, Eric Feurer, James Kuo, Harry McAlister

Tickets and Livestream Link

6:00 PM – 6:40 PM18:00 – 18:406:00 PM – 6:40 PM

May 18

6:45 PM – 7:00 PM18:45 – 19:006:45 PM – 7:00 PM

Out There

6:45 PM – 7:00 PM18:45 – 19:006:45 PM – 7:00 PM

Being a virgin is hard. Being a gay virgin is really hard. Newly-out Laurie, with the help of her sexually liberated best friend Adele, attempts to find her way in the queer community.

PILOT

Written by: Liv Drury

Featuring: Willa Barnett, Liv Drury. Sasha Rechler. Arianne Banda, Kaela Rosenbaum, Jared Kirsch, Charlotte Weinman, Maggie Olmsted, Isaiah Frank. Maya Armstrong, Justin Kuhn

Tickets and Livestream Link

6:45 PM – 7:00 PM18:45 – 19:006:45 PM – 7:00 PM

May 18

7:30 PM – 7:45 PM19:30 – 19:457:30 PM – 7:45 PM

Pressed

7:30 PM – 7:45 PM19:30 – 19:457:30 PM – 7:45 PM

Set at a student newspaper on a Midwestern college campus, this mockumentary series follows a group of students navigating two complicated, quickly changing worlds: journalism and young adulthood.

PILOT

Written by: Julia Shiplett

Featuring: Karen Chee, Sheria Mattis, Harshil Shukla, Chloe Radcliffe, Emily Wilson, Yedoye Travis, Wilfredo Diaz, Kyle Gordon

Tickets and Livestream Link

7:30 PM – 7:45 PM19:30 – 19:457:30 PM – 7:45 PM

May 18

8:15 PM – 8:55 PM20:15 – 20:558:15 PM – 8:55 PM

Dumb Dumbs

8:15 PM – 8:55 PM20:15 – 20:558:15 PM – 8:55 PM

Two lovable dumb dumbs finally grow up. Kinda. They pursue New York careers and romances in spite of their greatest hurdle… being dumb.

PILOT

Written by: Emily Wirth & Mark Burns

Featuring: Emily Wirth, Mark Burns, Peter Walsh, Annie Downey, Seerat Jhajj, Marissa Moorhead, Kenny Park Yi, Miranda Rozas, Maya O’Day

Tickets and Livestream Link

8:15 PM – 8:55 PM20:15 – 20:558:15 PM – 8:55 PM

May 18

9:00 PM – 9:40 PM21:00 – 21:409:00 PM – 9:40 PM

Queendom

9:00 PM – 9:40 PM21:00 – 21:409:00 PM – 9:40 PM

When the power-drunk ruler of a fantasy kingdom gets wind of a prophecy that threatens her reign, she and her cabinet embark on a mad campaign to ensure her legacy.

PILOT

Written by: Colby Smith & Hallie Haas

Featuring: Hallie Haas, Wes Haney, Akmal Tajihan, Josh Tobin, Haley Hepworth, Tim Keck, Dan Lempert

Tickets and Livestream Link

9:00 PM – 9:40 PM21:00 – 21:409:00 PM – 9:40 PM

SUN, MAY 19

Featured

May 19

6:00 PM – 6:40 PM18:00 – 18:406:00 PM – 6:40 PM

Finch

6:00 PM – 6:40 PM18:00 – 18:406:00 PM – 6:40 PM

Albert Munch, the shyest kid you've ever seen but not heard, is hopelessly in love with the most popular girl in middle school. He has no chance, until he meets Finch, an eccentric genius/twelve year-old looking for a new project.

PILOT

Written by Mike Jest & Seth Johnson
Featuring: Tim Platt, Lexi Ritter, Amara Leonard, Henrik Blix, Andy Rowell, Atra Asdou, Joelle Mendoza, Jessie Lee, John Missouri

Tickets and Livestream Link

6:00 PM – 6:40 PM18:00 – 18:406:00 PM – 6:40 PM

May 19

6:45 PM – 7:25 PM18:45 – 19:256:45 PM – 7:25 PM

Bubbles

6:45 PM – 7:25 PM18:45 – 19:256:45 PM – 7:25 PM

A group of employees at a Chicago gay bathhouse band together to save their 24-hour club from being shut down by a greedy city councilwoman.

PILOT

Written by Edson Montenegro
Featuring: Edson Montenegro, Flower Estefana Rios, Julian Hernandez, Wilfredo Diaz, Jamie Linn Watson, Gabe Gonzalez, Papirossa, Paul McCallion, Brandon Follick, Jeremy Pinson, Julia Zhen

Tickets and Livestream Link

6:45 PM – 7:25 PM18:45 – 19:256:45 PM – 7:25 PM

May 19

7:30 PM – 8:10 PM19:30 – 20:107:30 PM – 8:10 PM

Area 27

7:30 PM – 8:10 PM19:30 – 20:107:30 PM – 8:10 PM

A workplace comedy with a sci-fi twist! The incompetent supervisor of a top-secret alien research agency must join forces with a bright-eyed new hire, as they fight to save the reputation of their floundering office... Houston, they are the problem.

PILOT

Written by Shaun Menchel
Featuring: Shenuque Tissera, Grace Kuhlenschmidt, Kyle Gordon, Ibhan Kulkarni, Tatiana Frank, Hunter Saling, Tallie Medel, Jeremy Elder, Tim Barnes, Annabel & Sabina Meschke, Cory Peter Lane

Tickets and Livestream Link

7:30 PM – 8:10 PM19:30 – 20:107:30 PM – 8:10 PM

May 19

8:15 PM – 8:55 PM20:15 – 20:558:15 PM – 8:55 PM

True Story

8:15 PM – 8:55 PM20:15 – 20:558:15 PM – 8:55 PM

Two chronically online, best friends navigate the absurdities of the real world as 20 somethings in Brooklyn, NY.

Written by Lexi Notrica & Marcel Oyuela-Bonzani
Featuring: Lexi Notrica, Marcel Oyuela-Bonzani, Rebecca Ana Peña, Marie Faustin, Evan Lazarus, Afsheen Misaghi, Kendall Relf, Camille Respess

Tickets and Livestream Link

8:15 PM – 8:55 PM20:15 – 20:558:15 PM – 8:55 PM

Missed the 2022 festival? Check out the recordings and the writer & cast lists below.

A pilot featured in the 2022 Pitchfest was recently sold and is now in development with a major comedy network.

MAY 17-19

SCHEDULE & CASTS

FRIDAY, May 17

SAT, MAY 18

SUN, MAY 19

PRESS