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Based on the Isabella Gardner Museum theft: after a hard-scrabble kid from Boston’s North End becomes indebted to the mob, he’s coerced into spearheading the largest art heist in history. CAST LIST: Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss Bobby: Steve Rizzo Lenny: Allan Michael

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today. Audience Award Winners:Best Short Form Short Film: WHO FIRED THAT CANNON?Best Long Form Short Film:Funniest Film: MARK & SEBASTIANBest Direction: IDEAS ARE WELCOMEBest Performances: THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENEDBest Production Design: PULLOUTBest Cinematography: THE GREAT PRINCESS DIANA CAPERBest Sound & Music: FUNNY Watch the Audience Feedback Video for… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: August 2022 Film Festival

N’Ever Ever After is a mockumentary and workplace comedy featuring the unlucky-in-love wedding director, Mildred “Milly” Salvatore, and her chaotic wedding planning team known as “Cupids” as they strive (and often struggle) to make the wedding dreams of San Francisco Bay Area couples come true… by any means necessary. CAST LIST: Narrator: Shawn Devlin Milly:… Continue reading COMEDY Festival Best Scene Reading: N’Ever Ever After, by Morgan Allison Ross

Charlie is tired of being human and decides to become a rat. The gang must replace him. CAST LIST: Narrator: Steve Rizzo Eugenia: Elizabeth Rose Morriss Charlie: Sean Ballatyne

Romeo and Juliet meets Jerry Springer in this Elizabethan parody of the famous talk show. CAST LIST: Narrator: Kyana Teresa Terry: Geoff Mays Juliet: Hannah Ehman Writer Biography Carlos Perez has a M.A. in English from the University of Missouri—Kansas City (a professional writing degree in playwriting and screenwriting) and a B.F.A. in Speech and… Continue reading COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Terry Stinger Show, by Carlos Perez

A dark coming of age satire about a young boy trying to break into Hollywood. CAST LIST: Narrator: Kyana Teresa Old Man/Gepetto: Geoff Mays Pinnochio: Sean Ballatyne

Cherry Ann Bigman hopes to hang up her casual-sex shoes for something more substantial. Unfortunately, online dating chews her up and spits her out. So she takes up a new hobby–MMA fighting–and once she stops seeking, what she wants finds her. CAST LIST: Narrator: Steve Rizzo Cherry Ann: Hannah Ehman Anonymous Man: Sean Ballatyne Aanya:… Continue reading COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Head Block, by Jessica Sadler

Comedic view of America’s Cultural and Political quagmire. First installment in a series of ten episodes. Three total seasons. CAST LIST: Narrator: Kyana Teresa Delores: Hannah Ehman Frank: Geoff Mays

When a down and out writer, Len Hoffman, returns home to reset his life, he uncovers a drug fueled underground gambling ring run by the mayor — his old rival, Shane Foxe — his grandfather and his blood-thirsty gang of wheelchair warrior seniors. Dragged into the centre of the story by an old flame and… Continue reading COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Wintucky High, by Thomas Schoch

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today. Audience Award Winners:Best Film: A SPARK OF MADNESSBest Performances: CLEMENTINEBest Direction: CINEFILIABest Cinematography: MUTINY!Funniest Film: HOW DID WE GET HEREBest Sound & Music: KEVIN Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film: MUTINY!, 17min., USADirected by Matthew GratznerMutiny! is a swashbuckling, action-adventure comedy featuring a progressive… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: July 2022 COMEDY Festival