about the festival
Variety Pack is a bi-annual alt comedy festival in Philadelphia, PA.
We first popped onto the scene in May 2025 when producer Chaz T. Martin realized there wasn’t a home for Philly comedians who wanted to try out shows that are more than just sketch, improv, or standup. They needed a little more high-tech than a bar show but a little more low-tech than a full-blown play. Chaz worked at The Drake at the time, and pitched the idea of a two-weekend festival in the black box theater to see if there was an interest in this kind of thing.
Reader: there was.
Variety Pack is now home to genre-bending, -blending, and -breaking comedy acts both brand new and tried-and-true.
Follow us on Instagram at @varietypackcomedy to stay up to date on what we’re up to next!
The producers
Chaz T. Martin is a producer, writer, and sometimes performer..
They graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama, where they were first exposed to the sheer terror of having their scripts not only read aloud, but performed in front of people. It went well.
Their short script, Melissa, was one of five projects selected for Tribeca Film Institute’s Through Her Lens program in 2019, and is currently in development as a feature. They’re based in the greatest city in the world: Philadelphia.