Jon Bershad is a writer and performer living in Los Angeles.

He’s currently an animator on the Comedy Central series, Tooning Out The News.

In 2022, he became a Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist with his horror comedy feature script, Cuffing Season, which made the Top 50 in the competition.

That script also won Top Comedy in the 10th Annual Launch Pad Feature Contest and the Top Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Prize in the 15th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest as well as placing in numerous other contests and festivals (full list here). On Coverfly, the platform that collects all screenplay contest results, it is, as of this writing, the highest rated script of all time.

That feature was an adaptation of a script Jon previously wrote as a TV pilot. That version won the award for Best Half Hour Script at the 2021 Nashville Film Festival and has also been a finalist in a number of contests and festivals (full list here).

His animated pilot script, Sexy Teen Squad: Undercover Monster Hunters, won the Top Comedy prize in the 2020 Launch Pad Pilot Competition and was a finalist in a number of other contests (full list here). On Coverfly, it was the highest rated half hour animated script for all of 2020 and was, for a while, ranked as the 13th highest rated script on the site of all time.

His short film, Depressed Rabbit, was nominated for Best Animated Film at the 2020 New York Independent Film Festival, while his shorter film, Co-Workers, was the Special Jury Prize winner at the QuickieFest Film Festival. And his full-length musical, Zipperface!!?!: The Hobo Musical, had a sold out run at the New York International Fringe Festival.

Previously, Jon was the head writer for the weekly streaming show, Pop Off, for the Airtime app, a creative contributor for the TBS sitcom, The Detour, a writer for the comedy website Seriously.TV, the TV series The B.S. of A, the MTV pilot America's Least Wanted, and the TruTV pilot The Sexy Sex Sex Show. He's also written for The Onion, Above Average, Funny or Die, College Humor, Fusion, UCB Comedy, and McSweeney's.

Before moving to LA, Jon was a fixture of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York where he taught comedy writing while running the monthly sketch show The Spotlight and the monthly improv show, Please Ruin This Show. Previously, he spent five years performing on one of the theater’s house improv teams on Harold Night and another five years writing on a house sketch team on Maude Night. Jon also performs stand up and writes and directs videos for his own YouTube channel. Videos there have been written up in The AV Club, Huffington Post, Jezebel, Daily Dot, and more.

In his previous non-comedy life, he worked as a Contributing Editor for the news site Mediaite. During his time there, he was called a "worst person in the world" by Keith Olbermann, a "punk" by Andrew Breitbart, and "one of my favorite bloggers" by some guy who isn't famous so who cares. Oh! Dan Savage once said he "gets it"! That was nice.

In summary, Jon's a swell guy who makes funny things.

Management:
Abby Finer
Finer Entertainment Company (NY)
(917) 836-9323 / abbyfiner@gmail.com

Photo credits:

David Bluvband - orange background
Timothy Bailey - messy
Arin Sang-urai - stand up
Rachel Hammersley - jacket
My Roommate - me with a trophy
Arin Sang-urai - red sweater