asf 2024 performers
chris grace
Chris Grace is a comedian and actor you may know from Superstore, This Is Us, PEN15, Broad City, and more. Grace performed his one-man show Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johannson to effusive reviews and sold out crowds at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He's bringing his new show, Sardines, to headline Austin Sketch Fest on Memorial Day Weekend! Check out his show and workshop!
joan & raft
Joan & Raft is a comedy duo featuring LA's two hottest trans best friends, Joan Haley Ford and Raft. You may have enjoyed their writing on shows on Netflix, HBO Max, Cartoon Network, and Comedy Central. They're a consistent Austin Sketch Fest producer and fan favorite!
They’ll be performing and leading a workshop!
austin mime & movement company
Watch how The Austin Mime and Movement Company perceive you everyone you love and everyone you hate in this dramedy of physical movement about life. Through movement we explore what exactly this life means. We will embody all of those memories you thought you left behind and we’ll plunge forward creating new ones on the stage. See them at ASF!
big fart
Big Fart has rocked the stage since forming in July of 2023; winners of Austin Sketch Fest's very own 48 Hour Sketch Challenge, the troupe of close friends have used their palpable platonic chemistry and collective comedy backgrounds to put on a great show. Performing a version of their winning sketch show, Big Fart explores concepts in a mildly subversive and certainly funny manner. See them at ASF!
clara blackstone
Clara Blackstone is a queer comedian and general weirdo of several varieties. When she’s not busy eating trash or drinking piss, she’s doing comedy or creating some form of strange subversive art. She has performed alongside national touring acts like Chris Gethard and Solomon Georgio. If youre a fan of chain smoking trans women with absurd jokes that are darker than the circles under her eyes, go check her out as ASF!
corduroy
Corduroy is a House Team at the Pack Theatre in Los Angeles California. That’s right, Hollywood baby. Their love of cardboard props is only matched by their love of silly irreverent sketches. From TikTok sensations to Spider Men superfans- come check out the kindest team in comedy. (Unless we blow up… in which case we’ll become actual monsters.) See them at ASF!
everything you wanted to know about white supremacy*
Everything You Wanted to Know About White Supremacy* (*but were too afraid to ask) is a satirical sketch revue exploring white supremacy's grip on America through comedy. The show isn't designed to solve racism (or offer any REAL answers) but rather highlight the absurdity, and horror, of it all. See it at ASF!
fun in moderation
Fun in Moderation is a New York City-based sketch comedy team that offers a famously good time. This show is an all-night party featuring sketch comedy and fun games in an effort to - you guessed it - disappoint our parents. Just like every other sketch group, two of us are dating, one of us has a podcast, and all four of us have a hard time making eye contact with people. See them at ASF!
gag reflex
Gag Reflex is a sketch/improv group based in Chicago that has made a name for itself in the last two years. Known for their absurd premises and commitment to character, they are a resident show at the Annoyance Theatre where they perform frequently to sold-out crowds. The group has performed all across Chicago, at venues such as Sleeping Village, Lincoln Lodge, iO, and Lincoln Hall, sometimes to audiences of 400+. Last year, they were voted one of the best sketch/improv teams in the Chicago Reader. See them at ASF!
ghost girl
Ghost Girl is a sketch comedy team hailing from the vibrant comedy scene of NYC! They've been on the scene since the fall of 2022 and are proud to be a house team at the renowned Magnet Theater. Their unique blend of creativity, diversity, and comedic talent sets them apart. See them at ASF!
group chat
GROUPCHAT is an L..A.- based all-female sketch group made up of the most controversial C-List celebrities in Hollywood. Anastasia Narinskiy, Alina Bock and Nicole DuBois. They’ve been featured on Funny or Die, College Humor, and one of them is famous in Germany. If you’re chronically online you’ll probably recognize their faces. Bring your dad, they’d love to meet him. See them at ASF!
gutter
Comprised of the most hilariously-demented minds in Los Angeles, Gutter is a hodgepodge of writer/performers who go to the deepest depths of grotesque to make the audience laugh. See them at ASF!
jackie & allison
Jackie and Allison Into the Multiverse is a sketch-character comedy show where comedians Jackie Skinner and Allison Villaseñor attempt to complete their show in our universe with the help support and performances from alternative versions of themselves from other universes. Will they succeed in putting on the greatest sketch show in the multiverse? See them at ASF!
jon blair
Toronto's Jon Blair packs an entire sketch troupe's worth of comedy into the weary yet determined frame of a single man! Winner of Best of the Fest at both Montreal and Toronto sketchfests, and creator of the one-man sketch webseries "Now More Than Ever," Jon combines characters, music, wild plot twists, and form-breaking experimental comedy for a solo sketch spectacle that will have YOU saying, "wow is that guy okay?" See him at ASF!
juicebar
Juicebar is an Austin-based comedy collective renowned for creating a wild and new sketch show every month! With a team composed of local filmmakers comedians and actors Juicebar delivers fast-paced comedy so fast that you'll be laughing all the way to the bank home and Rainforest Cafe; in that order! See them at ASF!
juicebox
Juicebox is a video sketch team from Austin - run through GOLD Comedy, a community of women and nonbinary folks making comedy together. See them at ASF!
manu y rolando
Manu y Rolando is a sketch comedy extravaganza that fearlessly explores the wild experiences of two dynamic Latinx comedians. From the challenges of forbidden love to a bank robbery gone right and the comical twists of navigating a one-night stand. These seasoned Chicago comedians now in LA boast an impressive resume including performances at Second City Chicago NBC Breakout Comedy Festival CBS 2020 Showcase and the acclaimed Boom Chicago (Best of LA 2023). See them at ASF!
martini tonight
Martini Tonight Comedy Show is a classy tuxedo era comedy show with psychedelic sketch theater. Stand up performers are encouraged to dress to the nines with sketch acts between which have seen a live dominatrix, a roman hedonist, coffee addicted soccer players & a seeing orb wizard. The evening is hosted by Brett Sisun and scored by the famous Franco brothers house band who bring ambience and jokes throughout the evening. Both Brett and the Franco brothers provide the sketch acts. See it at ASF!
party trick
Party Trick is a sketch comedy team based out of the Magnet Theater in NYC and performed at the inaugural DC Sketchfest. Their writing has appeared on satire and humor websites like McSweeney’s, Hard Drive, and The Onion as well as actual news websites with journalistic standards and stuff. This diverse team of writers and performers delights in creating ridiculous yet thought-provoking comedy to find the humor in today’s stories and social norms. Sometimes the team produces a sketch that says something profound about society. Other times Party Trick produces a sketch that says something profound about the author. Either way audiences will leave laughing. See them at ASF!
pavar snipe
Pavar Snipe is an Emmy nominated comedian, writer, actress and disability advocate. She's a producer/host for ABC's "Localish", the voice of Angela Baker on the DreamWorks series “Dragons: The Nine Realms”, and was writer/actress on ABC's “When Nature Calls with Helen Mirren”. Diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis as a child, Pavar channels her experience into her comedy. Pavar is a proud member of WOCA (Women of Color Anonymous), a BIPOC LA based sketch team also appearing in this year's ATXSF. She's on the advisory board of the New York ReelAbilities Film Festival. This April, she co-produced and co-directed the "ReelAbilities Live!" comedy show to a nearly sold out crowd. In her latest gig, Pavar is a college professor, teaching the course “Funny Ha Ha: The Art of Comedy” at The New School in NYC. Pavar is excited to debut "Code Switch" at the Austin Sketch Fest. Join her as she guides the audience through the multiverse in her head. See her at ASF!
rails comedy
Rails Comedy is a Washington DC-based sketch comedy troupe that has made a name for itself on the national comedy scene. With a blend of clever writing dynamic performances and a commitment to pushing boundaries Rails Comedy has been entertaining audiences for years. See them at ASF!
sundae scaries
Sundae Scaries is sketch comedy for people who take karaoke too seriously. Giddy on up with us as we explore the scariest parts of being on the millennial-gen z cusp all while wondering “wait can I pay rent with Kohl’s Cash?” Sundae Scaries, directed by the will-they-won’t-they Texas comedy duo Mimi Meier and Holly Hart, will make you laugh, sing, and remember to take your fish oil. See them at ASF!
the big toe gang
The Big Toe Gang is a group of close-knit friends with decades of combined experience who perform improv and sketch comedy in San Antonio. Every month we combine our talents to write, produce, and perform an entirely new hour of sketch each month - no repeats, one-night-only. See them at ASF!
the floor is lava
Don’t let your feet touch the ground! There’s nothing down there for you IT’S ONLY LAVA! Get up off your boring linoleum tiles carefully hop to your Kia Sorrento and scoot your patoot on over because "The Floor Is Lava!" See them at ASF!
transplantic city
Transplantic City: Bryan "Lubu" Roberts grew up with the possible death sentence of cystic fibrosis. He has been recovering and readjusting to a new life after his double lung transplant a decade ago. Bryan is now healthy “happy” and much much wiser about the whole experience and has written a brand new autobiographical show about his illness his recovery his therapy getting back to life and yes - the mysterious origins of the donor of his new lungs all in the format of a very dark sketch revue. See it at ASF!
woca
Women of Color Anonymous: Bold unique creative and unapologetically funny- the ladies of WOCA have crafted their original brand of comedy and blasted it all over the LA comedy scene. WOCA proudly represents a BIPOC women's comedic voice with diverse ages and (dis)abilities. Founded in 2016 WOCA held a 3 year residency at the UCB's Inner Sanctum Theater until the venue's closing. The cast has comedicaly trained with the UCB (NY and LA) The Groudlings Second City Hollywood The PIT (NYC) and (Boogie Manja NYC). WOCA's credits include: Hacks ABC's When Nature Calls with Helen Mirren DreamWork's Dragons: The Nine Realms Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Station 19 and Hola! In 2023 WOCA made their first appearance in the San Francisco Sketch Fest. See them at ASF!
woody fu
John Wick. John Wick Chapter 2. John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum. John Wick Chapter 4.
What do these movies have in common? Woody Fu has seen them.
Now he’s putting on a $26 Amazon wig and embodying the world’s favorite Canadian action star Keanu Reeves in “One-Man John Wick.”
Woody Fu appeared on ABC CBS FX Max HULU Comedy Central Peacock Netflix TBS AppleTV+ and Amazon. Woody trained in New York where he performed on Maude Night (UCB sketch) and Betty Night (UCB characters). He was also in Baby Wants Candy (Edinburgh Fringe) and Boom Chicago (Amsterdam). He was also in Just For Laughs New Faces: Characters.