Application Deadlines and Fees
Show applications:
- Early Bird:
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
$25 submission fee - Regular
Thursday, November 15th, 2012
$30 submission fee - Extended:
Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
$45 submission fee
Instructor applications:
- Early Bird:
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
$5 submission fee - Regular:
Thursday, November 15th, 2012
$10 submission fee - Extended:
Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
$20 submission fee
Note: All deadlines are at 11:59 p.m. (U.S. Eastern)
New Applicants:
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Applications for WICF 2013 are closed
Applications are now closed. Thank you to all who applied. Applicants were notified whether or not they were accepted by Sunday, January 13th, 2013. If you did not receive notification by said date, please check your spam folder first, then contact us at submissions@womenincomedyfestival.com . Applications for WICF 2014 will open in September of 2013.
Selection Process and Feedback
Women in Comedy Festival submissions are open to comedians of all races, creeds, religions, and genders. We accept international applications, but are not able to contribute to travel expenses. Due to the volume of applicants, we cannot give individual feedback as to why any given application was not accepted. Each year, the festival has grown in number and quality of applicants, so the selection process has become increasingly selective.
Accepted Acts show lengths at WICF
Our festival serves as a great showcase for industry and audiences to get to see as many quality acts as possible over the course of four days, so please be advised that show requests longer than what is stated below are unlikely to fit into our programming, and second slots for any act are solely at the discretion on the festival producers:
Genres and act lengths
- Category 1: Stand Up Comedy or Storytelling Stand Up Comedy*: 5-7 minutes
- Category 2: Improv Comedy: 25 Minutes
- Category 3: Live Sketch Comedy (You may include some video/ multimedia in your live act): 25 minutes
- Category 4: Musical Comedy (Scripted or unscripted. You may include some video/ multimedia in your live act): 25 minutes
- Category 5: Workshop Instruction: 45 minutes to 3 hours
*Storytelling stand up is stand up comedy with one sustained story, a la Mike Birbiglia or The Moth, but please be sure your storytelling stand up is pack with as many laughs as any good stand up set.
Questions
If you have any questions or difficulties, please check out our FAQ section. If you still have questions, please contact us at submissions@womenincomedyfestival.com . We can answer questions and help you with the process as needed. It's important to us that the submissions interface is clear and easy to use, so please feel free to send us any feedback at all.