--- title: "College Comedy Submission Kit: What to Send | D.O.C." description: "A roadmap to a campus submission kit: the clean video, bio, photos and price college agencies and NACA ask for, in their own words, and where to send it." url: https://disciplesofcomedy.com/career-atlas-college-comedy-submission-kit.html updated: 2026-11-10 --- The Career Atlas · Colleges & campuses · stop 2 of 5 # Your campus submission kit: your roadmap Start the playbook → Your proof The short answer College buyers decide from what they can see: a clean, college-appropriate video, a short bio, photos, your price and the college dates you’ve really done. Each agency and association asks for its own version, so build the pieces once, fit them to each page’s rules, and send them the way it asks. - **16** steps, each with its “done when” - **3** buyers, in their own words - **3** places to send it - **4** notes ready to send By D.O.C. Editorial · [The Career Atlas](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stand-up-comedy-career-atlas.html) ## This roadmap, in five parts Your roadmap ## From here to reach the campus buyers Where you are, the tests for the next stop, and the steps between, in the order most comics take them. The steps are the Career Field Manual's; mark each one as you go, and the day goes in your passport. You’re here if… ### Applying to the college market: the kit - Your clean set holds in mixed rooms, and you can time it to the minute. - You want a college agency, or the associations’ showcases, to see your work. - You have footage, but not yet a clean video made for a campus buyer. - You haven’t settled on a price for a single date. You’re ready to move on when… ### …to [reach the campus buyers](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/career-atlas-campus-showcases-and-college-agents.html) These are the tests the next stop’s buyers set in their own published rules. Tick each one when it’s true for you. You’ve chosen your way in: GP College Entertainment and KP Comedy each publish how a comic applies to them, and NACA’s National Single Act membership is designed for solo, self-represented artists. [GP College Entertainment ↗](https://www.gpentertainment.com/prospective-artists.php) · [KP Comedy ↗](https://www.kpcomedy.com/about.html) · [NACA Membership ↗](https://www.naca.org/join/associate-membership.html) You’ve priced a conference before applying: NACA’s regional conferences take membership, a showcase application, a booth and a full registration. [NACA Conferences ↗](https://www.naca.org/events/conferences/performing-exhibiting.html) Your strongest ten minutes are ready: NACA’s showcases give each act 10 minutes. [NACA Membership ↗](https://www.naca.org/join/associate-membership.html) You’ll join before you apply where it’s required: APCA asks agents and associates to be members before they register for its conferences. [APCA ↗](https://apca.com/artists-agents-membership/) 0 of 4 true ### The playbook 16 steps in 4 parts, from the Career Field Manual. Each has its “done when”, a D.O.C. tool for it, and your status, note and target date; star up to twelve for your 90-day plan. #### The video From the Career Field Manual: Assemble booking proof and Record without losing the act. In [the D.O.C. book](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stand-up-comedy-book.html): topics 143–173 and 348–382. 1. Assemble booking proof · package-04 #### Record an uninterrupted live sample set A clean set before a real audience, with clear picture and sound. The pages differ: GP asks for a professionally edited video of at least 5–8 minutes, KP Comedy for a 4–8 minute demo, Neon for a quality video of a live performance. Keep an uncut copy too. **Done when** A clip showing what a buyer can expect. [Set up the tape: Stage Time’s Tech tab →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stage-time.html#tech) **Your note and target date** Your note: what you did, a link, what's next Target date 2. Assemble booking proof · package-05 #### Prepare a separate clean clip if you sell clean work **Done when** An actual clean performance sample. [What goes on a demo reel →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/answer-comedy-demo-reel.html) **Your note and target date** Your note: what you did, a link, what's next Target date 3. Record without losing the act · release-05 #### Prepare a live-set submission clip to each outlet’s rules **Done when** A compliant clip with current requirements. Before you send: the checklist → **Your note and target date** Your note: what you did, a link, what's next Target date #### The words and the pictures From the Career Field Manual: Assemble booking proof. In [the D.O.C. book](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stand-up-comedy-book.html): topics 143–173. 4. Assemble booking proof · package-01 #### Choose the stage name used on every booking **Done when** One consistent name across your records. [Your SUCDb record →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-profile.html) **Your note and target date** Your note: what you did, a link, what's next Target date 5. Assemble booking proof · package-02 #### Write a one-paragraph comedian bio Keep it under 200 words, GP’s limit, and write it so a student board can paste it straight onto a poster. **Done when** Current facts without inflated credits. The college bio → [How to write a comedian bio →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/answer-comedian-bio.html) **Your note and target date** Your note: what you did, a link, what's next Target date 6. Assemble booking proof · package-03 #### Prepare a clean headshot or clear performer photo **Done when** A usable portrait with permission to share. [Headshots and credits →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/answer-comedian-bio.html) **Your note and target date** Your note: what you did, a link, what's next Target date 7. Assemble booking proof · package-06 #### List your proven set lengths accurately **Done when** Lengths you can deliver in real rooms. [Your log in Stage Time →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stage-time.html#log) **Your note and target date** Your note: what you did, a link, what's next Target date 8. Assemble booking proof · package-07 #### Record recent rooms, shows and dates with references **Done when** A verifiable performance history. [Your log in Stage Time →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stage-time.html#log) **Your note and target date** Your note: what you did, a link, what's next Target date 9. Assemble booking proof · package-09 #### Claim or create your SUCDb record with sourced credits **Done when** Submitted or updated information that is accurate. [Claim your SUCDb record →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-profile.html) **Your note and target date** Your note: what you did, a link, what's next Target date #### The price and the one link From the Career Field Manual: Get paid. Keep records., Assemble booking proof and Explore specialty markets. In [the D.O.C. book](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stand-up-comedy-book.html): topics 234–289, 143–173 and 132–142. 10. Get paid. Keep records. · money-09 #### Set a minimum acceptable net for travel gigs Work out the lowest single-date price that still leaves you money after the travel, and decide what it includes. **Done when** A written threshold with explicit exceptions. [Run the Math of a Gig →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedy-road-maps.html#math-of-a-gig) **Your note and target date** Your note: what you did, a link, what's next Target date 11. Assemble booking proof · package-08 #### Build a one-link electronic press kit A one-sheet a board can read in a minute: who you are, your clean runtime, your role, your price and how to reach you. **Done when** Accessible bio, clips and contact information. The one-sheet → [Your record, as one link →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-profile.html) **Your note and target date** Your note: what you did, a link, what's next Target date 12. Explore specialty markets · specialty-07 #### Prepare a market-specific pitch instead of a generic one **Done when** A pitch adapted for that buyer’s audience. The submission email → **Your note and target date** Your note: what you did, a link, what's next Target date #### Send it their way From the Career Field Manual: Find and pitch the right rooms. In [the D.O.C. book](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stand-up-comedy-book.html): topics 143–196. 13. Find and pitch the right rooms · bookings-03 #### Verify the current submission route for three target rooms **Done when** A dated first-party booking requirement record. Where to send it, on this page → **Your note and target date** Your note: what you did, a link, what's next Target date 14. Find and pitch the right rooms · bookings-04 #### Tailor your clip and message to each buyer Send each buyer what its page asks for, the way it asks: GP by email, Neon through its form, KP Comedy to the address on its page. **Done when** Three concise, different pitches. The submission email → [Draft the booking message →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/how-to-start-stand-up-comedy.html#tool-booking) **Your note and target date** Your note: what you did, a link, what's next Target date 15. Find and pitch the right rooms · bookings-05 #### Create a submission tracker with dates and outcomes **Done when** A list showing sent, replied, follow-up, declined. [Your booking desk →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stand-up-comedy-career-atlas.html#desk) **Your note and target date** Your note: what you did, a link, what's next Target date 16. Find and pitch the right rooms · bookings-06 #### Set follow-up reminders that respect buyer instructions Follow each buyer’s own timetable: GP says you may email 2–4 weeks after sending to ask whether your materials arrived, and asks comics not to call. **Done when** Follow-up dates, not repeated random nudges. [Follow-up dates on your booking desk →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stand-up-comedy-career-atlas.html#desk) **Your note and target date** Your note: what you did, a link, what's next Target date ### What speeds this up - **Film a show, not a rehearsal** A real audience’s laughs, clear sound and a clear view of you. [Stage Time’s Tech tab →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stage-time.html#tech) - **Lead with your strongest minute** GP asks for your strongest material in the first 90 seconds. [What goes on a demo reel →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/answer-comedy-demo-reel.html) - **Write a bio a board can paste** Short, true and in the third person. [How to write a comedian bio →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/answer-comedian-bio.html) - **Keep one link for the whole kit** Video, bio, photos and contact in one place that opens for anyone. [Your SUCDb record →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-profile.html) - **Know your number** A single-date price, and what it includes, worked out from your costs. [The Math of a Gig →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedy-road-maps.html#math-of-a-gig) - **Keep the clean set sharp** The kit sells the set, so keep the set getting better. [Clean vs. Dirty →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/clean-dirty.html) Each week ## Your weekly rhythm here Habits, not a timetable: the atlas has no stopwatch. Keep these going, and the proof for this stop builds up week by week. - **Watch your video cold** Watch your clip as a buyer would: does the first 90 seconds sell the set? - **Trim the bio** Cut one line that isn’t a fact a buyer can check. - **Test the links** Open each link in a private window, signed out, on a phone. - **Read one buyer’s page** Read one agency’s or association’s page again, and match your kit to it. - **Keep getting up** The clean set still needs stage time while you build the kit. - **Log what you sent** Note each submission’s date, what you sent and when that buyer says to follow up. What buyers check ## In their own words Each buyer's published rule, quoted from its own page, checked on 10 November 2026. They differ, so send each one what its page asks for, and read the page again before you send. A college agency’s published criteria ### GP College Entertainment By email: a clean, college-appropriate video, a bio of 200 words at most, two high-resolution photos and your college gigs, past or booked. - GP College Entertainment is accepting new talent through online submissions ONLY. - Current Biography (200 words max) - Any past or currently booked college gigs [GP College Entertainment’s page ↗](https://www.gpentertainment.com/prospective-artists.php) · checked 10 November 2026 A college agency’s published criteria ### KP Comedy A bio, a headshot, your college-market experience, your credits and a 4–8 minute video demo, and the video itself has to be college-appropriate. - Video demo of 4 – 8 minutes - Experience in the college market - Please do not send a club video with a statement that you CAN be clean. [KP Comedy’s page ↗](https://www.kpcomedy.com/about.html) · checked 10 November 2026 The campus buyers’ association ### NACA NACA’s showcase application asks each act for a bio, a photo and its pricing, and for the performance material its selection committee will review. - For each act you submit, you will need a bio, photo, pricing and other important information. - This is where you specify the performance material you'd like the selection committee to review [NACA’s page ↗](https://www.naca.org/events/naca-live/performing-exhibiting.html) · checked 10 November 2026 ### Where to send it Places that publish how a campus act gets in, each checked on 10 November 2026. Save one to your booking desk to keep its status, a follow-up date and a note. [62 places in all, on the Career Atlas →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stand-up-comedy-career-atlas.html#ways) Published route Nationwide · College market · Email #### GP College Entertainment At least 5–8 minutes of clean, college-appropriate material on video, a bio of 200 words at most, two high-resolution photos and your college dates. **Worth knowing.** A submission to an agency isn’t a booking or a promise of representation. [Its page ↗](https://www.gpentertainment.com/prospective-artists.php) Checked 10 November 2026 Published route Nationwide · College market · Email #### KP Comedy, representation inquiries A college comedy agency’s representation inquiry: a bio, a headshot, your experience in the college market, your credits, your website and social links, and a video demo of 4–8 minutes, sent to the address on its page. **Worth knowing.** It asks for a college-appropriate video, not a club set with a note that you can be clean, and does most of its reviewing in May and November. [Its page ↗](https://www.kpcomedy.com/about.html) Checked 10 November 2026 Published route Nationwide · College market · Form #### Neon Entertainment, artists seeking representation A form for entertainers looking for a college agent: the type of act, a bio, a headshot and a link to a quality video of a live performance, with clear picture and sound. **Worth knowing.** It reaches out only if it’s interested. A submission to an agency isn’t a booking or a promise of representation. [Its page ↗](https://www.neon-entertainment.com/artists-seeking-representation/) Checked 10 November 2026 The money here ### Price it before you send it None of the buyers on this page publishes what a school pays a comic, so this page gives no figure. NACA’s showcase application asks each act for its pricing: work yours out from your costs, and say what it includes. **In your kit, before you send** - Your price for a single date, and what it includes - Whether travel and lodging are in the price or extra - Your clean runtime, and the show lengths you can deliver - Your technical needs: microphone, stand and sound - How a school or an agent reaches you, and how quickly you reply [Road Maps: the Math of a Gig, with your own numbers](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedy-road-maps.html#math-of-a-gig) · [Get Paid, Get Back: the deal in writing](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/get-paid.html#deal) · [The IRS on gig work ↗](https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/manage-taxes-for-your-gig-work) Ready to copy ## The notes to send Fill in what you know once: it fills every note below and stays on this device. Anything left blank shows in [brackets], to fill in by hand. Your details Your name Your home town Your clean set length, in minutes Your clip’s link Your SUCDb record or website Your college dates, as they are Your email and phone What your show is about Your credits, as they are Your role: headliner, feature or host Your price for a single date Whether travel is included ### The submission email to a college agency ``` Subject: College submission: [Your name], clean stand-up Hi, I'm [Your name], a clean stand-up comic from [Your home town], submitting for your college roster. Video, [Your clean set length, in minutes] minutes of clean, college-appropriate material: [Your clip's link] Bio and photos: [Your SUCDb record or website] College dates, as they are: [Your college dates, as they are] I've sent what your page asks for. Thank you for looking, [Your name] [Your email and phone] ``` ### The college bio, under 200 words ``` [Your name] is a stand-up comedian from [Your home town] whose clean show is about [What your show is about]. [Your name] has performed at [Your college dates, as they are]. Credits, as they are: [Your credits, as they are]. Video and dates: [Your SUCDb record or website] ``` ### The one-sheet ``` [Your name] Clean stand-up comedy The show: [Your clean set length, in minutes] minutes, clean and college-appropriate, about [What your show is about]. Role: [Your role: headliner, feature or host] Price: [Your price for a single date] for a single date. [Whether travel is included] Technical needs: a microphone and stand, and sound for the room. Video: [Your clip's link] Bio and photos: [Your SUCDb record or website] Contact: [Your email and phone] ``` ### Before you send: the checklist ``` 1. Is the video clean and college-appropriate from start to finish, ad-libs included? 2. Is my strongest material in the first 90 seconds? 3. Does each link open in a private window, signed out? 4. Is the bio under 200 words, with credits as they are? 5. Are the photos high resolution, and mine to share? 6. Have I listed just the college dates I've really done or have booked? 7. Am I sending it the way this buyer's page asks? ``` Your proof ## Proof for your passport Tick each piece when you have it: the day goes in your passport with it. The passport keeps your whole career's record on this device, to download, print and review once a year. The evidence ### This stop is done when you have A clean, college-appropriate video, with a link that opens for anyone A bio of 200 words at most, with credits as they are Two high-resolution photos you have permission to share A one-sheet with your clean runtime and your price for a single date A dated record of where you sent the kit, and what each buyer asked for Your status ### Your campus submission kit A link to your proof: a tape, a booking, a review Your private note **On your record** Nothing yet: your status changes and ticks appear here, each with its day. [Your whole passport: the timeline, your booking desk, your 90-day plan, the printable career record, the yearly review and the cloud copy →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stand-up-comedy-career-atlas.html#passport) Saved in this browser ## Next stops [Colleges & campuses · The marketplace **Reach the campus buyers** Spend on reaching a market only with a plan the evidence backs.](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/career-atlas-campus-showcases-and-college-agents.html) [Private & corporate · Show the work **A package a buyer can say yes to** A complete, accurate package makes the decision quicker.](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/career-atlas-comedian-press-kit.html) ## Go deeper - [How do comedians get college gigs?](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/answer-college-comedy-gigs.html#topic-170) The explainer, from the D.O.C. book - [What should be on a comedy demo reel?](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/answer-comedy-demo-reel.html) The explainer: the clip a buyer watches - [Chapter 8, Getting Booked](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stand-up-comedy-book.html) In D.O.C.’s companion book, Stand-Up Comedy: From Writing to Touring ## Sources The buyers' rules are quoted from each buyer's own page, checked on 10 November 2026. A buyer can change its rules at any time, so read its page before you send anything. - [GP College Entertainment, prospective artists ↗](https://www.gpentertainment.com/prospective-artists.php) A college agency’s published criteria. - [KP Comedy, artist representation inquiries ↗](https://www.kpcomedy.com/about.html) A college agency’s published criteria. - [NACA Live, performing and exhibiting ↗](https://www.naca.org/events/naca-live/performing-exhibiting.html) The campus buyers’ association. - [NACA associate membership ↗](https://www.naca.org/join/associate-membership.html) The campus buyers’ association. - [NACA Conferences, performing and exhibiting ↗](https://www.naca.org/events/conferences/performing-exhibiting.html) The campus buyers’ association. - [APCA associate membership, for artists and agents ↗](https://apca.com/artists-agents-membership/) The campus buyers’ association. - [Neon Entertainment, artists seeking representation ↗](https://www.neon-entertainment.com/artists-seeking-representation/) Its published route, checked 10 November 2026. - [The D.O.C. book](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stand-up-comedy-book.html) The playbook's book topics, matched to the book's contents on 10 November 2026. ## About this roadmap **By D.O.C. Editorial.** This is one stop of [the Stand-Up Career Atlas](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stand-up-comedy-career-atlas.html): colleges & campuses, stop 2 of 5. It's a way to plan, not a promise of bookings: it gives no expected years, its only figures are the ones buyers and venues publish on their own pages, and the buyers' rules are theirs. For what college buyers ask to see, read [How do comedians get college gigs?](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/answer-college-comedy-gigs.html#topic-170). Updated 10 November 2026 · [The Career Atlas](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stand-up-comedy-career-atlas.html) · [Comic's Corner](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/tools-for-comedians.html) · [Privacy](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/privacy.html)