Every year SketchFest Seattle brings together the most talented and hilarious comedians we can find from across the country, pairs them with the best and brightest local acts already killing it in town, and curates the most magical laugh-a-minute fest in the Northwest.
All shows are $15 at Unexpected Productions at the Market Theater: 1428 Post Alley (map)
Click here for tickets to all shows.
Schedule
Friday, September 09 | 7:00 pm
Featuring:
• Jeffrey Nickels
• Cam Wyllie (Toronto)
Friday, September 09 | 9:00 pm
Featuring:
• Maple Daddies
• JEANPAULBROS (Boston)
Saturday, September 10 | 5:00 pm
Featuring:
• Maple Daddies
• Homeless Fireparty (Washington, D.C.)
Saturday, September 10 | 7:00 pm
Featuring:
• The “Responsible” “Adults”
• Bad Medicine (Washington, D.C.)
Saturday, September 10 | 9:00 pm
Featuring:
• Everything’s Fine Tonight Live!
• Amanda Xeller (Brooklyn)
Saturday, September 10 | 10:00 pm
SketchFest is hosting a happy hour hang sesh in the lobby of Unexpected Productions. Come meet the sketch comedians from this year’s festival, hang out, network, make friends, and do the one thing that benefits local theater the most: buy a drink from the UP bar!
Sunday, September 11 | 6:00 pm
Featuring:
Seattle Showcase!
• Turbo Turkey Productions
• A Southern Mood
• Noble Rot
• Butt Collection
• Drop The Root Beer and Run
Sunday, September 11 | 8:30 pm
Featuring:
• Jason et al. (Minneapolis)
• Jordan Moeller (Brooklyn)
Performer Bios
A Southern Mood
Sunday, 9/11 | 6:00 pm
Three Seattle transplants all originally hailing from the American south, their sketches explore the unique character of cultures of the southern US and the absurd, hilarious – and sometimes confusing – ways they collide.
Bad Medicine
Saturday, 9/10 | 7:00 pm
Bad Medicine is a team of friends from a political town doing distinctly non-political comedy. With a bent toward the dark and the absurd, we like to keep our audiences guessing with varied styles and formats, with the goal of pointing out the ugliness and the silliness of real life.
Butt Collection
Sunday, 9/11 | 6:00 pm
Solo performer! Doing character sketches!
Drop the Root Beer and Run
Sunday, 9/11 | 6:00 pm
Drop the Root Beer and Run, a darkly whimsical sketch team that’s performed in SketchFest Seattle, Improlympia, LA Improv Fest, the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot, and Vancouver Sketchfest, is here to take you on a fun ride with your weirdest friends.
Everything’s Fine Tonight Live
Saturday, 9/10 | 9:00 pm
Everything’s Fine Tonight Live is written and produced by Justina Kolb, Ethan Sabella, and Jordan Eskenazi. They met through improv classes and The Pocket Theater, and bonded over their shared love of early Letterman and Conan O’Brien.
Homeless Fireparty
Saturday, 9/10 | 5:00 pm
Homeless Fireparty are a video and live sketch group from Washington DC. We are a character centric, Python -esque/ Vaudevillian type presentational sketch comedy group.We have done multiple shows at the DC improv as well as shows all around DC. We have also done the Seattle SketchFest the last 2 years.
JEANPAULBROS
Friday, 9/9 | 9:00 pm
Fraternal twins that create sketch videos about race, sports, parodies, action, and so much more!
Maple Daddies
Friday, 9/9 | 9:00 pm
Saturday, 9/10 | 5:00 pm
We are the Fathers of the children Maple. Our tiny little babies are our sketches and we feed them from each of our teats collectively. We formed in 2017 through the Sketch Summit at the Pocket Theatre in Greenwood. We tend to have an absurd yet wholesome and sometimes musical feel to our sets. This would be Maple Daddies’ fifth appearance at Seattle Sketchfest.
Jason et al.
Sunday, 9/11 | 8:30 pm
Jason has presented comedy in potpourri of personally-named (mostly) and personally-unnamed (one) variations. One or more variations has performed at Seattle Sketchfest, San Francisco Sketchfest, Bumbershoot, the Pocket Theater and a bunch of people’s house. He now lives in Minneapolis and is starting to do stuff here now.
Jordan Moeller
Sunday, 9/11 | 8:30 pm
Jordan Moeller is a comedian, actor, and writer based out of Brooklyn, NY. He is a member of PIT Sketch Comedy House Team ‘The Ruse’, BoogieManja Sketch Comedy House Teams ‘The Right Stuff’ and ‘Cherry Cherry’, cofounder of the dance-centric comedy groups Villains and Time Bath, as well as the multi-disciplinary HERON Ensemble and formidable DangerSwitch! clown troupe.
His work has been featured on Characters Welcome, Toronto Sketch Fest, Bumbershoot Music Festival, NYC Solocom, and countless other festivals and stages across the country. Jordan’s work is influenced by the best and worst parts of himself.
Jeffrey Nickels
Friday, 9/9 | 7:00 pm
I started doing solo shows by writing short plays where I play all the characters, always including myself somewhere, and use genre-specific settings to inform the narrative and the world. More recently I’ve been incorporating soundscapes with pre-recorded dialogue that I respond to on stage. The tone I’m going for is empathetic characters dealing with tragedy, loss, and alienation, but always with an optimistic outlook, heightened characters, and fun visual gags.
Noble Rot
Sunday, 9/11 | 6:00 pm
Noble Rot is a beneficial form of grey fungus affecting wine grapes, and also a comedy duo featuring Kasia Cassidy and Darrin Schultz. Initially friends through comedy, then through exchanging baked goods, now they are comedy friends again embarking on their first performance together.
The “Responsible” “Adults”
Saturday, 9/10 | 7:00 pm
The “Responsible” “Adults” are a sketch team composed of three questionably responsible so-called adults with an eye for the dumbest of jokes. The Adults have been seen at Seattle SketchFest, NYC SketchFest, The Pocket Theater and the Copious Theater. Blending humor that’s relatable, simple, and clean with absurdity and a dash of musical and physical comedy, the Adults describe themselves as “comedy even your mom would love.”
Come and hang with us to be entertained by the problems of three mid-twenties young adults. Bring your mom!
Turbo Turkey Productions
Sunday, 9/11 | 6:00 pm
Turbo Turkey Productions has been producing sketch comedy and improv shows since 2009 performing at Seattle SketchFest in 2013, 2016 and 2017 as well as performing at the improv and sketch comedy months a the Pocket theater, as well as performing at Eclectic theater, Burien Actor’s theater and Stone soup theater. They have been regulars at the Rendezvous theater performing since 2015 a semi regular schedule from 8 to 10 shows a year mostly in the grotto with a few shows upstairs in the Jewelbox theater. They have also written and performed several original plays around town and love performing and writing sketch comedy.
Cam Wyllie
Friday, 9/9 | 7:00 pm
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 has spent the last 15 years performing in some of Toronto’s favourite Sketch Comedy Ensembles and is now out on his own showing the world his distinct brand of Solo Sketch. He recently returned to the stage at the 2022 Montreal Sketch Comedy Festival where he was shortlisted for Best of the Fest.
Amanda Xeller
Saturday, 9/10 | 9:00 pm
Amanda Xeller is an award-winning visceral, raw, weird, sick, super silly, dumdumdumdumdum, physical comedian residing in Brooklyn, NY. She won the Lifetime Achievement Award at Montreal Sketchfest ’22. Her solo work has been featured across the US and Canada. She’s been in 3 comedy competitions and won all of them baby! She’s been in some sweet music videos, headlined a bunch of festivals, and was in the short film All Aboard The Gravy Train, which premiered in Cannes. She produces writing and collaboration projects for the Magnet and teaches there as well.
