2026 Performers
2026 Performers
ALoT (A Lot Of Things) • Chicago, IL
Piloted by Beau Maguire and Leo LaCamera, A Lot of Things (A.L.O.T.) delivers hilarious sketch comedy in unexpected ways. Will it be a choose your own adventure style revue? An eight person show performed by only two people? Beau and Leo's premier improv form, "Beau and Leo do 50 things in 20 minutes"? (No. It won't be that one, because this is a sketch fest - but it could be one of those other things!) Regardless of what form it takes, If you like big dumb comedy performed in new dumb ways, A.L.O.T. is the show for you!
Avery & Sabrina Are Doing A Sketch Show! • Dallas, TX
Avery and Sabrina have been performing sketch comedy for over four years. As founding members of the Dallas Comedy Club Sketch Team in 2023, they quickly became known for their on stage chemistry, talent, and dedication. Following numerous successful performances, Avery and Sabrina now serve as both coaches and performers, leading the DCC Sketch Team. Their latest venture, “Avery and Sabrina are Doing a Sketch Show,” premiered at the Dallas Independent Comedy Festival in April.
The show has since toured through Dallas Comedy Club, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, New York Sketchiest, and Denver Sketchfest where the show won Best Of Fest - Ensemble. Between Sabrina’s extensive improv background and Avery’s theater degree, these co-writers and friends(?) continue to develop their distinct brand of chaos and laughter on stages across these grand United States of America.
Bad Medicine • Washington, DC
The Bad Medicine Show is a high-energy sketch comedy spectacle that’s equal parts dark, cerebral, and delightfully absurd. It’s the perfect blend of smart and stupid fun from a merry band of DC friends who dive headfirst into the ridiculous. When we're not cracking up audiences at the legendary DC Improv Comedy Club, we’re hitting the road, bringing the laughs to comedy festivals like Toronto Sketchfest, SF Sketchfest, and Philly Sketchfest. Oh, and we don’t just perform, we teach the fine art of sketch comedy too.
Burnt Toast Sketch Show • Brooklyn, NY
Burnt Toast is a Brooklyn-based sketch group that formed out of a comedy group at the University of Oklahoma. We do fast-paced sketch comedy like you've never seen! The best part of our performances? We pack each show tight! If one sketch isn't your favorite, don't worry! We're just about to move on to the next one! Each member is a writer and performer, and collaborates on nearly every sketch written. Our members hail from all over, and came together at the hub of Gen-Z comedy: Brooklyn. In addition to sketch comedy, each member is an artist in other capacities: film, stage, and beyond! You can catch us semi-regularly around New York City!
Cam Wyllie • Montréal, Canada
Cam Wyllie is Canada's beloved Sketch Comedy Maniac, with 3 Canadian Comedy Award Nominations, Festival Appearances all over North America, and a bunch of Comedy Awards with made up sounding names.He's coming in hot with a carefully curated selection of brave, tragic, and gleefully dumb characters who, like him, are just trying to do their best. Armed with a passable singing voice, a can do attitude, and the odd tinfoil prop, he'll give you plenty of reasons to laugh, cheer, and get invested. Open your heart to the hilarious, often surreal, and always unpredictable world of Cam Wyllie. Winner of the Toronto Sketchfest's Best of the Fest award, Denver Sketchfest's Best of the Fest, and one of only 2 acts to have won the $10,000 grand prize at the Cam Wyllie Sketch Comedy Invitational.
Catastrophic Success • Chicago, IL
Formed in the hallowed halls of The Second City Chicago in 2023, Catastrophic Sucess is a professional sketch group comprised of performer-writers Jake Jones, Mikey Fried, Grant Batdorff, and Sophia Brazda. Known for their surreal, absurdist style of sketch and heightened theatricality, this band of classically trained actors-turned-comedians bring life, music, and thought-provoking commentary to their work. (We're kidding.) Following a sold-out run at the Den Theatre of their self-produced revue "Catastrophe!" (2024), their follow-up show, "All's Well That Ends" (2025) would sell out the renowned Judy's Beat Lounge stage at the Second City Chicago and place Mainstage members Laurel Krabacher and Ryan Miera at the directing helm. At its core, Catastrophic Success finds its stride in exploring the cacophany of mundanity, calamity, and the art of failing upwards. In these sketches, failure is exalted and success...utterly catastrophic.
Chaps • Washington, DC
Chaps is DC’s first all-women sketch team, made of a suspender-clad, super group of highly seasoned jokesters from across the DC comedy scene. In keeping with their dapper aesthetic, Chaps' comedic stylings take inspiration from classic vaudeville acts — infusing their shows with jaunty music, physical gags, and buffoonish wit, a la Charlie Chaplin or Abbott and Costello. As a collective, they seek to create roles for each other that are not bound by feminine archetypes / comedy tropes, instead writing characters that are unapologetically silly, dark, surprising, absurd. Collectively, Chaps’ members have performed in more than a dozen sketch festivals including Montreal Sketchfest, Sketchfest Seattle, Chicago's IO Fest, Philly Sketchfest, and NYC Sketchfest.
Danielle Steger • Washington, DC
Danielle Steger is a DC-based sketch comedian who has performed at Philly Sketchfest, SketchFest Seattle, and DC Sketchfest. She has also appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Capital Fringe Festival, where she won Best of Fest in 2019 and 2023 with two different comedy shows. She's transgender, which you may already know because she brings it up CONSTANTLY.
DC Raclette Club • Washington, DC
First and foremost, DC Raclette Club is cheesy. Like the savory Swiss cheese from which they are named, they are rich, warm and best enjoyed with laughter. Inspired by acts like Mitchell & Webb, Aunty Donna, and Kids in the Hall, the trio of Andy, Isabelle and Sara bring big characters that celebrate queer identity and joy. Are they all friends? Lovers? Maybe two of them are married and the third is a best friend? Watch this Washington, DC-based group and see if you can figure it out.
Drop the Root Beer and Run • Seattle, WA
Since they formed in the wilds of Olympia, WA in 2011, Drop the Root Beer and Run have been spreading their unique brand of sketch comedy all over North America. They have performed in SketchFest Seattle, Denver SketchFest, Portland Sketchfest, DC Sketchfest, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, and Vancouver Sketchfest. They think you’re really cool and want to be friends, but are intimidated by your extensive jazz record collection.
Fanfiction Theater • Washington, DC
Lose yourself in wild flights of fancy with sketch comedy about your favorite fictional characters! Fanfiction fan Joanna Harris and her friends bring to the stage stirring tales of love, death, adventure, and friendship involving characters from popular franchises. Be prepared for: crossovers, self-inserts, wild pairings, Mary Sue and Gary Stus, love triangles, love squares, plus tropes, tropes, and more tropes.
For The Time Being • Washington, DC
For the Time Being is one of one. Like a perfectly ripe avocado in a world of hard, unyielding mangoes, their ability to make the innocuous into innuendo and the regular into ridiculous has been delighting audiences since their founding. Featuring writers and performers from the worlds of sketch, improv, animation, stand-up, and even birdwatching, their diverse backgrounds meld into energetic, varied, off-the-wall sketches. For The Time Being is made up of Jordan Asulin, Michelle Baker, Anne Butcher, Jillian Cardillo, LaEbony Livingston, David Malone, Andrew Stranieri, and Darien Weems.
Forevermore • Baltimore, MD
Forevermore is Baltimore’s all women sketch comedy troupe that is working to fight fire with satire! As Charm City's only sketch group, Forevermore has been entertaining audiences from coast to coast since 2022 with sketches that are silly, stupid, sexual, and sometimes darkly comedic. The troupe consists of local comedians, actors, and dancers who have combined their unique talents to create parody sketches, original songs, elaborate dance numbers, and visual gags all with the intention of pushing the envelope, pressing your buttons, and poking your funny bone in all the right places.
Fun in Moderation • New York City
Fun in Moderation is a New York City-based sketch comedy team comprised of Kendall Bowden, Nick Ryan, Austin Elias-de Jesus, and Syd King. Our shows are an all-night party with sketch comedy, stand-up, and games. 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. The group has performed at SF Sketchfest, New York Comedy Festival, Austin Sketchfest, Philly Sketchfest, NYC Sketchfest, and Asylum NYC. They were also featured in The New Yorker, which was a surprise to them, too.
Ghost Girl • New York City
Ghost Girl is a sketch team hailing from the vibrant comedy scene of NYC. We've been a house team at the Magnet Theater since 2022. Our diverse team of actors and writers are all about tackling the heightened, the surreal, and the twisted. Our sketches operate on the logic of your favorite Saturday morning cartoon as we tackle such subjects like therapy, technology, and yes - even magic cats.As a team we have had the pleasure of performing at sketch festivals in Philly, DC, Toronto, Montreal, Austin, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, and beyond! You may have seen our dastardly performers and writers featured in GOLD Comedy, Sports Illustrated, tv commercials, DC Fringe Fest, and @dudettewithsign, to name a few. Youtube and Insta @GhostGirlSketchComedy.
Grace and the Gang • Washington, DC
Grace and the Gang is the brain-child of viral content creator, Grace Fennell, an award-winning actor, improvisor, and writer currently based in DC. Grace and the Gang's comedy is a mix of absurdism, physical comedy, and dark humor. Join Grace and her pals on this comedy adventure!
Horse Show • Chicago, IL
For over a year, Horse Show has been churning out high quality, horse themed comedy on a monthly basis. Do you love horses? Hate them? Know what they are? Then Horse Show is for you!
Hot Dolphin • New York City
Hot. Dolphin. Take it or leave it.*Straight from the Magnet Theater in New York, this show explores the mundane, ridiculous, and frequently surprisingly sexual experiences of everyday life. It's absurd, it's hilarious, and frankly, it's wet. In the dolphin way, not the the other way. You'll laugh, you'll think, you'll laugh again harder!*Take it please please please pleeeeeeeeeease pls
Jackie & Allison • New York City & Los Angeles
Jackie & Allison are a comedy duo made up of comedians Jackie Skinner and Allison Villaseñor. These two best pals travel from opposite sides of the country to perform clown, sketch, and improv together. Jackie and Allison will bring you a show that is so stupid that your brain will think it's genius, causing you to laugh. We apologize in advance. Jackie & Allison Into the Multiverse has had sold out shows across the country and has been an official selection for Chicago Sketchfest, Austin Sketch Fest, Sketchfest Seattle, NYC Sketch Fest, Big Gator Comedy Festival, Toronto Sketch Fest (TOSketchfest), DC Sketch Fest, New York Fringe (Winner-Best Comedy), Montreal Sketchfest, Boston Fringe, and Philly Sketch Fest.
Legs Akimbo • Richmond, VA
Legs Akimbo is a Richmond-based sketch comedy team that is known for their theatrical, fast-paced shows and their ability to create any prop out of cardboard. They’ve spent the past year writing and performing together as a house team for Coalition Theater and are now branching out into the Great Big World.
Milwaukee • New York City
Contrary to their name, Milwaukee! is a beloved, long-running sketch comedy team based in New York City, baby. They’ve been bringing silly, witty, and sometimes frisky, performances to the stage since 2018.You’ve probably seen Milwaukee! performers on Saturday Night Live, Comedy Central, 30 Rock, Inside Amy Schumer, and commercials that definitely convinced you to buy something.And you’ve probably read Milwaukee! writers in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Onion, Reductress, and all over Elon Musk’s Twitter™.Milwaukee! has had the pleasure of performing in SF Sketchfest, Austin Sketchfest, Montréal Sketchfest, The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, and The Portland Sketch Comedy Festival, to name a few.Give us a follow on the ol’ gram @milwaukeesketchcomedy to see where we’re performing next!
MIST • Washington, DC
MIST is a sketch group made up (mostly) of improvisors who decided to stop winging it and start writing it down!
Mother's Pouch • Washington, DC
Mother’s Pouch is a DC-based sketch comedy group voted DC's “Best New Sketch Group” in 2024! We’ve brought laughs to our sold-out shows at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, DC Arts Center, and the DC Improv!! Our show is high-energy mix of character-driven, absurdist, and situational humor with just the right amount of existential dread! If you’re looking for some knee-slapping comedy, dust off your ol’ knee guards and come on down to our show! Come Jump in the Pouch with Us!
Queer Window • New York City
Queer Window is the nation’s premier LGBTQIA+ sketch team featuring New York’s hottest up-and-coming queer comedians. Cast credits include New York Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, The Onion, Reductress, Insider, UCB Maude Night, McSweeneys, and more!
Rails Comedy • Washington, DC
Founded in 2021, Rails Comedy is a rising force in the Washington, D.C. comedy scene with a focus on the power of ensemble comedy. Rails Comedy is dedicated to fostering local talent and building comedy around community in the nation’s capital. They are a proud co-founder of DC Sketchfest, the first festival dedicated to sketch comedy in the capital region, which performed to sold out audiences in 2024 and 2025.Rails Comedy performers have been featured at renowned festivals across the country and the world, including Montréal Sketchfest (Canada), Edinburgh Festival Fringe (UK), and Capital Fringe (DC).
Septar • Philadelphia
From a group of eleven visionary fans of Rugrats (1991) and SEPTA public transportation (1963), it's Septar! Philadelphia's only sketch comedy undecuple (i.e. having eleven parts or members). Coming from various comedy backgrounds, Septar is excited to bring our mind meld of smart and dumb jokes to the stage at DC Arts Center. With multiple original hours in Philadelphia and festival appearances in San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, and NYC, come on out and see what we're all about.
Sewer Boy LLC • Chicago, IL
Based out of Chicago, IL, Sewer Boy LLC is a raucous and absurdist sketch comedy group that has been writing and performing together for nearly five years. Their long-term goal? To become so wildly successful that they’ll never have to speak to each other again!
On stage, the Sewer Boys focus on laughs and jokes, though they’ve been known to chase after a good guffaw or light chuckle from time to time. Versatility is key.
You can find us on Instagram @sewerboyllc or at our respective homes - if you know where those are!
Shitty Mozart • Brooklyn, NY
They cloned Mozart, it went horribly wrong and now we're stuck with the consequences. Wearing a cheap wig, Shitty Mozart (Aaron Nemo, a writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) performs a dazzlingly chaotic and vulgar one-man multimedia concerto.Terrified that the audience will realize he lacks the musical genius of his predecessor, Shitty Mozart shows off his own talents – playing makeshift instruments he's invented, performing duets with cartoons he drew, and activating his robot hype man – in an effort to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.Shitty was a selection at SF Sketchfest, The New York Comedy Festival, Flyover Comedy Festival, Austin Sketchfest, Projectorfest in New York City, and Edinburgh Fringe. Come see what Beyond the Joke calls “the symphony of silliness you’ve been dreaming about” https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/15164/review-shitty-mozart
The Incredible Shrinking Matt & Jacquie • Philadelphia, PA
The Incredible Shrinking Matt & Jacquie are a Philadelphia based sketch comedy duo consisting of Matt Schmid and Jacquie Baker. The pair met while performing in the Philly Improv Theater house team The Flat Earth. They quickly bonded over a shared goofy yet dark sense of humor and decided to spin off their own side project as a duo. Since forming in 2013 they have performed and taught workshops all across North America, opened for acts such as Emo Philips and Adult Swim’s DJ Douggpound, worked on film and commercial projects, and even got married in 2022.
The RENS • Washington, DC
The RENS are DC’s own dynamic collective delivering bold, original, character driven comedy for the culture. Their sketches blend sharp writing, electric timing, and infectious energy poking fun at society, pop culture, and the everyday tropes we all know too well. Showcasing their ability to entertain while making you think and reminisce. If In Living Color had a Millennial baby, CPS should’ve been called immediately, cuz these kids be wildn’.
the___incident • Charlottesville, VA
We are the___incident, a sketch comedy group that hails from the University of Virginia. We seek to spread our divine comedic vision with the rest of the big, bright world of sketch comedy. Our club was founded in 2009 and has run for 32 seasons with a cast of writer/performers that changes each year. We have never performed anywhere beyond the bounds of our old stomping grounds before, so come and join us for our first show abroad (outside of Charlottesville)!
Time to Kill • New York City
Writers and producers at ""The Daily Show"", ""The Tonight Show"", and more of the best comedians in New York City come together for “Time to Kill: A Sketch Comedy Show!” — with each performance packed with sketches, musical numbers, celebrity impressions, and more! Time to Kill's show is like watching an episode of SNL, but *live* in a theater in your city…and much more unhinged. If I Think You Should Leave’s Tim Robinson had octuplets, it would be the cast of “Time to Kill.” One thing they all have in common? They KILL it onstage.This performance stars America's sweethearts: Rachael Burke (“The Tonight Show”), James Caven (The PIT), J. Steven Madura (Cracked.com), Nick Reichheld (NBC’s “Bring the Funny”), Johnathan Ross (UCB), Lanee’ Sanders (“The Daily Show”), Julia Schroeder (Story Pirates), and Channing Tookes (The Armory)!Time to Kill was recently rec'd by Time Out NY as ""one of the best things to do in NYC"" and the NY Times rec'd the show as ""What to Do in NYC."" The team's live sketch comedy credits include: 2025/2024 SF Sketchfest, 2025/2024/2023 NY SketchFest (headliners), 2024 Hudson Valley Comedy Festival (headliners), and 2025/2024/2023 NY Comedy Festival.
