Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival Reveals 2022 Lineup
Last week the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival announced they will return March 23-27, 2022 with TOsketchfest22 – Screen Time Edition, an online sketch comedy festival with over 100 titles in nine shorts programmes. This five-day online comedy festival will present a wide variety of sketch comedy from around the world featuring sketch powerhouses and viral sensations.
In addition to nine live showcase presentations, TOsketchfest will provide a new on-demand offering throughout the festival dates with all streaming revenue going back to the creators.
“Omicron derailed our live festival’s pre-production period, but having produced a kick ass online festival in 2021 our team was well-positioned to bring audiences an exciting second Screen Time Edition of TOsketchfest,” said Paul Snepsts, Executive Director of TOsketchfest. “Each of these works is its own hilarious victory over this pandemic. That’s something we need to celebrate.”
The Current TOsketchfest22 – Screen Time Edition Lineup includes:
10-Piece Nuggets, Accountable Comedy (New York), Ajahnis Charley, Alia DeSantis, Ally Medeiros, Alma Amorim (Milton), Anders Yates, Anesti Danelis, Avan Neo (Ottawa), Bad Machine, Big Apartment (Vancouver), Bleak, Boy Girl Party, Brainwrap Comedy (London, UK), Canadian Satire, Carson & Taylor, Cheap Wine, Chelsea Larkin, CoFlemedy, The Comedy Club, Conrad Osei-Bonsu, Cookie Biscuits, The Sketchlings (Maryland), Darrin Schultz (Seattle), The Debutantes (Edmonton), Diana Aydin (New York), The Diddlin’ Bibbles, Donny Crosswell, Dublin Comedy TV (New York), Emily Richardson, Fatuma Adar, Folk Lordz (Edmonton), Gabriel Meacher & Alex Oliver, Gender I Hardly Know Them (Edmonton), Good Daughter presents Bad Show, Good Ideas, Grapefruit Bubbly (Wisconsin), Heather Hawthorn Doyle (New Westminster), Herbeaver, Hillary Yaas, The Institute Sketch Comedy (Massachusetts), Joel Edmiston and Ben Stager, Jon Blair, Jordan Moeller (Virginia), Joseph Stilwell (Vancouver), Joy Provision, Juan Jaramillo (Milton), Katrina Westin, Kirsten Rasmussen, Kyle Woolven (Belleville), Laura Lee, Lisa Cheong (New York), Looners Comedy (Indiana), Luba Magnus, Margarita Brighton (Halifax), Mike A Simms (New York), MK Morris, Model Majority (New York), Mom's Girls (Newfoundland), NYTEShift (Philadelphia), Potato Potato, Public Works, Old School Sketch Show (New York), Re:Current Theatre (Vancouver), Roderick B Shephard (North Carolina), Ronald Dario (Vancouver), Sam Roulston (London, UK), Scott Paterson, Second City Chicago Youth Ensemble, Send Noods, Sensitive Athletes, Shannon DeVido (Philadelphia), Shannon Rayne (Vancouver), Short Attention Spa (Picton), Sidetrack Bandits (Steinbach, Manitoba), Skinny Kookoo (Niverville, Manitoba), The S&M Experience, Smooth Comedy (Hamilton), Success 5000 (Edmonton), The Templeton Philharmonic, Tita Collective, Tom Hearn, Tommy Marshall, Toronto Sketch Comedy, Triple Yeah Productions (Massachusetts), Uber & Klonk, Vermin Melville, Vincent Price Check, Whyte Wyne and Young Riesling, The Walking Sketch (Mexico), Wishful Genies, Young Douglas (New York), and Your Friends Comedy (California).
Tickets and passes are on sale now at www.torontosketchfest.com.
The 19th Annual Festival takes place March 6-17, 2024 in Toronto.