TOSketchFestBlog
TOsketchfest kicks off the 2026 Learning + Fun Series with an informative virtual presentation with the TOsketchfest team, and guests from Denver Sketch Festival and Portland Sketchfest.
Submissions for TOsketchfest26 are open from September 1 – October 15, 2025. Creating a festival submission is a job. Sure, there are the forms and submission fees to navigate, but that’s just the END of a submissions process.
How do you write about your work?
Do you have great photos?
Does your video submission do your work justice?
We thought we’d bring a few festival programmers together to talk a bit about what their festivals are looking for, and to offer tips and insights on what you can do to make your festival submission shine.
WHAT MAKES A GREAT FESTIVAL SUBMISSION?
Date: Tuesday September 23, 7:00-8:00pm Eastern Time
Location: LIVESTREAM – Zoom
Program Length is approximately 60 minutes
Cost: FREE
Our Guests
Virginia Woodall
Virginia Woodall (she/her) is a producer and curator with deep roots in Toronto’s comedy and theatre community. As Festival Producer of the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival, she programs showcases, develops new initiatives, and creates opportunities for artists to connect with audiences year-round. She is passionate about creating inclusive, accessible, and joyful arts experiences that support artists and strengthen community. It’s Virginia’s goal to support comedy artists to present themselves in submissions and applications in a way that accurately shows are funny and wonderful they truly are.
Katie Congrove
Katie Congrove is a Denver-based writer, actor, and producer with experience spanning stage, screen, and digital comedy. She has performed in numerous theatrical productions and has written for major YouTube channels including Nerdstalgic (1.49M subscribers) and Weird History Food (680K subscribers).
Katie’s comedy work includes writing and performing with the sketch teams Big Ol Mess and Midnight Snack, voice acting in the Don’t Write Me Off podcast, and producing the Denver Sketch Festival. She has also performed sketch comedy across North America, with appearances in Montreal, Toronto, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City, Austin, and Portland. In addition to her comedy work, Katie has acted and done voiceover work in commercials and appeared in various short films and proof-of-concept projects currently on the market.
Trained extensively at The Second City Los Angeles and RISE Comedy in sketch writing, screenwriting, improv, and stand-up.
And more special guests!
