DC Sketchfest is the District's sketch comedy festival happening March 26-29 at The DC Arts Center. TICKETS ON SALE NOW! dcsketchfest.com
*** DC Sketchfest is almost sold out, but there's still a way to see your favorite sketch troupes. The line for standby tickets starts 30 miuntes before each show. It's first come, first serve. No guarantees. ***
March 26th @ 7pm - Show #1 SOLD OUT
Rails Comedy / Jordan Moeller / Mother's Pouch
March 26th @ 9pm - Show #2 SOLD OUT
Girl Mountain / The Better Binness Bros. / M.I.S.T.
March 27th @ 7pm - Show #3 SOLD OUT
Queer Window / 15 Minutes Away / Seann Cantatore
March 27th @ 9pm - Show #4 SOLD OUT
The "Responsible" "Adults" / Big Ol' Mess / Grace and the Gang
March 28th @ 5pm - Show #5
High Dramma / Erick Acuña / Jonathan Cohall
March 28th @ 7pm - Show #6 SOLD OUT
Andy Assaf / Jackie & Allison / Fanfiction Theater
March 28th @ 8:50pm - Show #7 SOLD OIT
Disco Horses / DC Raclette Club / Cam Wyllie
March 28th @ 10:30pm - Show #8 SOLD OUT
Money & Things / Vivek Srikanthan / Brick Penguin
March 29th @ 5pm - Show #9
Chaps / A.J. Schraeder
March 29th @ 7pm - Show #10 SOLD OUT
Brandy Alexander / Bad Medicine / Big Apartment
March 29th @ 8:50pm - Show #11 SOLD OUT
Field Trip / Ghost Girl / Party Trick
March 29th @ 10:30pm - Show #12 SOLD OUT
Time to Kill / Georgetown Sketch Comedy Society / Danielle She/Her
"What is DC Sketchfest?"
DC Sketchfest is DC's only sketch comedy festival and features 36 comedy troupes from the US and Canada for four days only, March 26-29, at The DC Arts Center. DC Sketchfest is organized by the DC sketch comedy community and founded by Bad Medicine and Rails Comedy.
"What is Sketch Comedy?"
A sketch is a short, fully scripted comedy scene (you may call these "skits" but we never do). Sketch is the same thing you see on Saturday Night Live!
DC Sketchfest at The DC Arts Center Schedule
March 26th @ 9pm - Show #2 SOLD OUT
March 27th @ 7pm - Show #3 SOLD OUT
March 27th @ 9pm - Show #4 SOLD OUT
March 28th @ 5pm - Show #5
March 28th @ 7pm - Show #6 SOLD OUT
March 28th @ 8:50pm - Show #7 SOLD OUT
March 28th @ 10:30pm - Show #8 SOLD OUT
March 29th @ 5pm - Show #9
March 29th @ 7pm - Show #10 SOLD OUT
March 29th @ 8:50pm - Show #11 SOLD OUT
March 29th @ 10:30pm - Show #12 SOLD OUT
Cast and Creative Team for DC Sketchfest at The DC Arts Center
Cast
15 Minutes Away
Uncomfortable, uncompromising, unexpected; we’re 15 Minutes Away! We’ve got a diverse cast of women, queer and POC comedians, 15 Minutes Away comedy style breaks boundaries, crosses the line and confronts social norms. We’re a New York City based team doing UCB style sketch comedy with actors and writers featured on Netflix, HBO, Comedy Central, Oxygen, NBC, DropoutTV, TBS, Peacock, MTV, Fox, CBS.
The Better Binness Bros.
The Better Binness Bros. are business-bettering brothers from different mothers. Their madcap antics, outrageous characters, and absurd video sketches are known for sweeping audiences into a phantasmagoric swirl of vaudevillian quips, uninhibited satire, and devastating ennui. They have bettered business across the country, including at Sketchfest Seattle, Denver Sketchfest, DC SketchFest, and venues like the DC Improv and the PIT in NYC.
Brick Penguin
Brick Penguin is the longest-running, highest-octane, hardest-hitting, most stupendous, most attractive, least litigious, funniest, best, most remarkable sketch group to ever come out of Washington, DC. Except for the Capitol Steps. They were probably better. But they died five years ago, Brick Penguin murdered them, and here we are. Since 2010, Brick Penguin has been entertaining audiences in DC and has quickly become the longest-running, most attractive, et al., group ever in festivals across New York, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, North Carolina, and Baltimore.
Bad Medicine
Bad Medicine is a Washington DC based sketch comedy group specializing in the dark, the cerebral, and the absurd. Though it has humble beginnings--conceived over a plate of tater tots--Bad Medicine has quickly grown into one of the most eclectic sketch groups in DC and features a cast trained by Second City, the Upright Citizen's Brigade, Washington Improv Theater, the District Improv, and Dojo Comedy. They are a group of singers, designers, lawyers, and students with the shared goal of writing the best comedy about the worst of humanity. No side effects. No horse pills. No cures.
Cam Wyllie
Cam Wyllie truly is Canada's Sketch Comedy Maniac; a nearly 20 year veteran of the live comedy performance scene with multiple awards for this ensemble work, directing, and his universally beloved solo comedy shows. As one of the most prolific performers in North America, Cam Wyllie has perfected his craft on stages from Montreal to Los Angeles. He's performed at every major Sketch Comedy Festival from coast to coast. Do you like city names? In the last. year, he's performed for sold out audiences in San Francisco, Toronto, Montreal, Portland, Newfoundland, Edmonton, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, and South Carolina In 2024, Cameron was the recipient of The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival's "Best of the Fest" award, and was the $10,000 grand prize winner of the Cam Wyllie Sketch Comedy Invitational.
Chaps
Chaps is DC’s first all-women comedy super group made up of experienced jokesters from some of DC’s top sketch comedy teams. Adorned with their signature, jaunty suspenders and mustaches, Chaps’ vaudeville-inspired performances transcend feminine tropes with their unique blend of dark, witty, and absurdist humor.
Erick Acuña
Erick is a Peruvian comedian/writer based in Washington DC. He is a two time winner of ‘Best Comedy Show’ at Capital Fringe, and has had sold out runs in festivals all over North American, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (UK).
Girl Mountain
Girl Mountain is a Brooklyn-based sketch group that makes you stop and think - what is a mountain of girls? And how many girls make a mountain?
Vivek Srikanthan
Vivek Srikanthan is an idiot (his words). Come see why.
Best known for his self-deprecating and self-reflexive solo sketch comedy, Vivek has been featured at Toronto Sketchfest, Montreal Sketchfest, Denver Sketchfest, and San Francisco Sketchfest. He is also known for his one man show One Man No City, which premiered in November 2024, and will be featured at Vancouver Fringe Festival in 2025.
Seann Cantatore
Seann Cantatore is an NYC musical comedian who combines theater, sketch comedy and silly goose-ness into her solo shows. She believes in humor that welcomes everyone to the party and seeks to bring people together through laughter and song. With her whimsical wit and inviting presence, audiences feel right at home belly-laughing and confronting their deepest emotional vulnerabilities, alike. She has performed at notable venues and festivals throughout the US, including DC Improv, Detroit Improv Festival, New South Comedy Festival, Rise Comedy Festival (Denver) and recently returned from a cross-country solo tour.
Creative Team
Isaiah Headen
Executive Producer
Writer and producer for Bad Medicine Comedy at the DC Improv Comedy Club.
Walker Green
Producer
Andy Weld
Producer
Morgan Elwell
Producer
Joanna Harris
Producer
Jim Tatalias
Producer
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