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Sketch battle · Finest City Improv
Skeleton
Wars
Local writers submit anonymous sketches. A rotating cast reads the finalists live. The audience chooses who leaves with the Golden Marrow Trophy.
The rules
Short enough to stage. Weird enough to remember.
- Threesubmissions per writer
- Fivecharacters maximum
- Fiveproperly formatted pages maximum
How the night works
Your script walks into a theater without you.
We screen the submissions, hand the selected pages to the cast, and keep every writer’s name secret until the room has voted.
Make the lineup
Dad Skeleton reads the pile and builds a show of 10–12 sketches. The house cast handles the performance.
Keep it anonymous
The audience doesn’t hear the writers’ names until voting is over. Your pages have to fight alone.
Count the bones
The audience favorite takes the Golden Marrow Trophy. Then the writers are unmasked and everybody gets to meet.
Next battle
Next date to be announced
Check the FCI calendar for announcements.
Finest City Improv · San Diego