Import sidesMark beats in scriptsAnnotate every sceneMemorize lines fasterRehearse without a readerRun lines hands-freeRecord a friend's readCompare every takeErase background noiseAdd slates in one tapBuild video and voice reelsShare your best work instantlyShare resumes in secondsMarket yourselfSchedule every auditionTrack every callbackRemember every contactLog every write-offKeep every noteSee your whole careerPractice every dayWork from one placeManage big movesStudy productionsRefine your techniqueStep on your Stage Import sidesMark beats in scriptsAnnotate every sceneMemorize lines fasterRehearse without a readerRun lines hands-freeRecord a friend's readCompare every takeErase background noiseAdd slates in one tapBuild video and voice reelsShare your best work instantlyShare resumes in secondsMarket yourselfSchedule every auditionTrack every callbackRemember every contactLog every write-offKeep every noteSee your whole careerPractice every dayWork from one placeManage big movesStudy productionsRefine your techniqueStep on your Stage
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The hard part should be the acting. Not everything around it.

IntroducingThe Stage

The single platform that lets you practice your craft, prepare for the room, and build your career. Rehearse with a voice reader, shoot and clean up self-tapes, cut reels, build a cinematic website, manage calendar events/to-dos, and so much more. All in ONE workflow.

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“This is giving me life. The website felt like it was made for me and how I think.”
Maxwell · Actor
“This is an incredible app and game-changing. I’m definitely going to keep using it!”
Jack Cipriani · Actor
The problem

Right now, every part of your career lives somewhere else. And you’re the only thing holding it together.

Voice Memosevery take you ever gave
Notes appyour sides
Camera roll4,000 self-tapes
iMessagewhere the sides arrived
Gmailevery audition, buried
WeTransferthe tape you sent. link expired.
YouTubeunlisted. your reel.
Dropboxyour headshots, 2019
Voice Memosevery take you ever gave
Notes appyour sides
Camera roll4,000 self-tapes
iMessagewhere the sides arrived
Gmailevery audition, buried
WeTransferthe tape you sent. link expired.
YouTubeunlisted. your reel.
Dropboxyour headshots, 2019
Google Drivethe other headshots
A Word docyour resume. three versions. all wrong.
Google Sheetsyour mileage, badly
Calendarthe class you forgot
Instagramyour "portfolio"
A group chatwhere you found out
A friendif she is free
A shoeboxyour receipts
Google Drivethe other headshots
A Word docyour resume. three versions. all wrong.
Google Sheetsyour mileage, badly
Calendarthe class you forgot
Instagramyour "portfolio"
A group chatwhere you found out
A friendif she is free
A shoeboxyour receipts
The worst filing system is your own head Which take was better. Who you owe a reply. What the coach said in March. Your callback rate. The class you keep meaning to book. All of it, remembered by you, and only you.

You should be training for the scene.
Not fighting around seventeen apps.

One loop.and it compounds
The auditiona tool or two exists
The silencenothing
The joba tool or two exists
The afternothing
The answer

The Stage

The single platform that lets you practice your craft, prepare for the room, and build the career.

Memorizing lines. Rehearsing scenes. Recording self-tapes. Taking notes. Preparing auditions. Building your materials. Growing your career.

None of those are separate jobs. They’re all part of the same one.

The tools aren’t the problem.

They’re built as if they have nothing to do with each other, so every switch costs you context, momentum, and time.

The Stage brings them into one connected workflow.

Because acting is one workflow.
Your tools should be too.

The proof

One app. In place of twenty-four+.

Every tool you stitch together now, the part of The Stage that ends it, and exactly what’s free. None of it a cheaper copy.

1A line-running app, or a reader you have to book
→
CueReads every other character and waits for your cue.
FreeSystem & recorded-friend voices, unmetered
ProLifelike AI voices, on à-la-carte credits that never expire
2A memorize-lines app
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DrillSpeak the line; it only moves on when your last words match. Loop the one beat you keep dropping until it lands.
FreeEvery scene, every day
3Your camera roll
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Self-TapeDraggable eyeline markers for every reader, and reader positions: left, right, near-lens, direct address. You’re looking exactly where the take needs you to.
FreeRecord or upload, unlimited
4Scrubbing takes back, one at a time
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Compare TakesTwo passes side by side, in sync. Tap the two you’re torn between and keep the keeper.
FreeEvery take you shoot
5A slate app
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SlateRecord it once; on export it joins your slate to the trimmed take, framed and named for you.
FreeOn every take
6A teleprompter app
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TeleprompterSpeed zones from Read to Race, on a black stage or as a faint line right over the lens, so you never look like you’re reading.
FreeAny script
7A noise reducer, or an audio engineer
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Noise RemovalRoom tone, hum and hiss lifted off a bedroom take without touching the performance. It keeps both, so you can switch back.
Free5 minutes, to hear it work
Pro30 minutes every month
8A scanner app
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Hand ScanPhotograph the notes you scrawled in class and they come back as searchable text. Because actors write by hand.
Free5 scans, in the rehearsal workbook
Pro100 a month, across Notes and Journal
9Reading ninety pages alone in the car
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Table ListenThe whole script performed. Every character auto-cast in its own voice, each line lighting up as it’s read.
Free5 minutes
Pro180 minutes every month
10A notes app
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NotesBeats, breaths and intentions live right on the script page. The Study archive tags them by class, turns your TODO: lines into tasks, even fills in your teacher.
FreeNotes on the rehearsal script
ProThe searchable Study archive
11A journaling app
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JournalA private page a day, and a streak that turns a year of them into A Year of Pages.
ProThe streak and the year-heatmap
12A folder of nice emails
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WinsA gold timeline where every booking lands on its own. Acting is mostly no. Keep every yes.
ProThe timeline, with a boost to your Marquee
13A goals list in Notes
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Vision & GoalsAn actual vision board in the app, images and all, because that’s how creatives work. The vision you set in January, still there in November.
ProYour Compass, for the long game
14Wix or Squarespace, or Instagram as a “portfolio”
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MarqueeA cinematic page built for how casting actually looks, not a grid you don’t own.
FreeA cinematic page you can build and share
ProYour public URL at your name, plus who’s viewing
15Dropbox and Drive
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Your libraryEvery take, headshot and tape in one place that knows it’s yours, not four that don’t.
Free1 GB
Pro50 GB
16WeTransfer, on links that expire
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PackagesA curated bundle for the moment: casting, agent, or custom. Password-optional, streamed from your Stage, and you can update it without the link ever changing.
FreeShare a single self-tape
ProCurated pitch packages, one link each
17A video editor, and the wait
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Reel BuilderCut from the takes you already have, rendered in seconds.
Pro15 reels a month, each up to three minutes, just as casting wants
18A Word doc, three versions, all a little wrong
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ResumeUp to three print-ready versions: Theatre, Film/TV, Commercial, each ready for the submission it’s for.
ProThree named versions, each shared at a tap for the right audience
19Your calendar app
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CalendarOne entry for a whole run, evening shows and matinees together. Type “every Tue and Thu until March” and it just builds.
FreeThe whole calendar
20A to-do app
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To-dosWhat a role needs, tracked against the role.
FreeYour daily list
ProBigger career moves in a Gantt or Kanban board
21A spreadsheet you dread
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Auditions & BookingsEvery submission, callback and booking drawn as a visual Sankey funnel, so you see your conversion rate and which casting types to double down on.
ProThe funnel, your rates, and one-tap submitted-to-booked
22Your contacts app
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ContactsThe casting director, the coach, the reader. Every name carrying its history, nudging you when it’s time to touch base.
ProTouch-base reminders, tied to the work
23A bookkeeping app
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ReceiptsMileage at this year’s IRS rate, per diems, union dues and recurring expenses set once. An actor’s P&L, exported clean for tax time.
ProThe P&L, with CSV export
and so much more. The rest of it lived in your own head. Now it lives in one place that remembers for you, so the hard part can be the acting.

Free is the whole rehearsal room, and a cinematic profile you can share. Pro is your public page, and the career built around it.

“I’ve never been able to create one calendar event for a performance schedule that includes both evening shows and matinees, but the multi-session entry makes it easy and clean.”
Scot Colford · Actor
The workflow

What a single audition looks like with The Stage.

The audition
It drops on a Tuesday. You have four days.
 
Tape dueand the clock started
the moment you opened it
Day one
Tuesday
 
✕WithoutPrint them. Highlight with a pen. Text three friends. Hope one is free.
✓WithThe sides land. Ten seconds later they're a script you can work.
Pursue / Auditions

Auditions shouldn’t begin with busywork.

Drop in your sides. The Stage builds the audition around them.

Less time organizing. More time acting.
Loop · 01
PDF dropped in, lines lift off
the page, characters detected,
you tap "that's me." 9s.
Hone / Rehearsals

Stop juggling scripts, notebooks, and PDFs.

Every rehearsal opens a working script where your beats, intentions, tactics, and discoveries live directly on the page. Whatever technique you use, your process stays with the scene, ready the next time you open it.

Because great acting isn’t just remembering the lines. It’s remembering the work.
Loop · 02
The workbook. Annotating a scene,
marking beats on the lines. 8s.
Day two
Wednesday
 
✕WithoutRead it aloud in the car. Forget half of it by Thursday.
✓WithNothing happens today except the words going in.
Hone / Drill

Nothing kills a moment faster than searching for the next line.

So drill it until you never have to. Again. Then again. And again.

Until the words no longer need your attention. Only the emotion does.
Loop · 02b
TO SHOOT · Lines dropping out of the
page: full, then half, then blank,
while the scene keeps running. ~9s.
Day three
Thursday
 
✕WithoutBeg somebody to read at nine at night. Owe them a favor back.
✓WithYou run it. And run it. And run it. Then you point a camera at it.
Hone / Cue

The hardest part of rehearsing isn’t the acting.
It’s needing someone else to do it with.

So rehearse whenever you want. At 2 a.m. Before class. Between auditions. Run the same eight lines forty times if that’s what the scene needs.

Cue doesn’t rush you. It doesn’t guess when you’re finished speaking. It listens for your words, waits through the silence, and comes in when the moment is ready, not when a timer says it should (unless you want it to).

Miss a line? You’ll know.
What it looks like when you fluff one
Easy for you to say. You already know how this story ends. You know if all of this was worth it.
■  you said it ■  you skipped it

Finish a session and you’ll see exactly where the work still is. Then do it again, as many times as you like.

And a great scene partner never punishes you for trying again.
♪ Sound on
Clip · 03 · not a loop
Cue running a live scene, 20s.
Gold lines lighting as it reads.
Audio IS the product here.

Choose your scene partner.

Every actor rehearses differently. So does The Stage.

Free

A friend

Sometimes the best reader is someone you already know.

Raven

Send them a link. They record their lines from any device, without being forced to sign up. Keep every read, compare performances, and rehearse against a real human voice whenever you want.

Free

The voice already on your phone

Sometimes you just need to get to work.

System

Press play and rehearse instantly using your device’s built-in voice. It isn’t trying to win an Oscar. It’s there whenever inspiration strikes, whether that’s at 2 p.m. or 2 a.m., with nothing extra to buy.

Pro

A lifelike performance

Sometimes the scene deserves more.

Choose from a curated cast of expressive voices and audition each one before you commit. The right reader doesn’t just feed you lines, it gives you something to play against. Because every great performance starts with someone worth listening to.

A note: the recorded-friend feature is free. We can’t promise your friends won’t still charge you.

Run a scene tonight →
Free to start · Your first scene in five minutes
Hone / Self-tape

The hardest part of a self-tape usually isn’t the scene.
It’s finding someone to read it with.

So don’t wait. Open the scene. Press record. Cue reads the other character while you focus on the performance.

Because your best take shouldn’t depend on someone else’s schedule.
♪ Sound on
Clip · 04
Taping it with nobody in the room.
Cue plays the reader.
Day four
Friday · due midnight
 
✕WithoutShoot the whole thing again, because of a slate. Or a dog.
✓WithYou have a take you love. You have four hours. Nothing can go wrong.
Hone / Takes

You know when something feels different.
Now you can see it.

Keep every take. Compare performances side by side. Learn what changed before you step back in.

Loop · 05
Two takes compared,
then sent.
Take 47

You finally got the take.

Then the dog barked.

Or the air conditioner. The refrigerator. The neighbor. The airplane. The one sound you couldn’t control.

The take
00:14 · ruined
TO RECORD · the take, with the dog in it
Two barks. Both on your best line. You're not getting that take again.
The same take
00:14 · clean
TO RECORD · the identical take, dog lifted out
Room tone, hum, hiss, and the dog. Gone. The performance is untouched.
Keep the performance. Lose the noise.

One pass lifts the room off the take, without laying a finger on the voice in it.

Pro

You should never have to choose between your best acting and a quiet room.

11:52 PM

The tape is perfect. Then you remember.

You forgot the slate.

Normally, that’s another setup. Another recording. Another editor. Another export. Usually while the deadline is getting closer.

The fix
Record the slate on its own.
It goes on the front of the take
you already have.
But not with The Stage.

Just record the slate and add it to the front of the take that’s already there. Download it stitched together, or send it off as a public link.

Because forgetting five seconds shouldn’t cost you the next thirty minutes.

11:58 PM
Friday 2 minutes to spare
Sent.

Forty-eight takes. Not because you needed forty-eight.
Because, for once, nothing made you stop before you were ready.

You stopped when you found the take.
The one you knew was worth sending.

Yes. The Stage makes you faster.

But that’s not the point.

The point is that the time used to disappear into everything around the work.

Finding a reader.

Organizing the sides.

Recording the slate.

Fixing the audio.

Exporting.

Uploading.

Doing it all over again.

Now those hours belong to the scene.

You could have sent the tape on Thursday night. Instead, you spent another day rehearsing. Trying something new. Chasing one more take.

Not because you had to.
Because you finally could.

The Stage didn’t make you a better actor.
It gave you more time to be one.

That was one small part of The Stage.

Because acting isn’t just auditions.
It’s everything between them.

The months nobody sees.

The classes.

The networking.

The study.

The setbacks.

The wins.

That’s where careers are built.

I

Hone

Become the actor you know you can be.

Practice, rehearse, memorize, self-tape, compare performances, and do the work nobody sees.

Free
II

Plan

Know exactly what today asks of you.

Auditions, classes, bookings, tasks, and everything else an actor’s week throws your way.

Free
III

Shine

Make opportunities find you.

Build your reel, portfolio, package, and professional presence so the next opportunity starts with you.

Free
IV

Study

Keep sharpening the craft.

Study performances, techniques, scripts, and the notes you’ll still want six months from now.

Pro
V

Reflect

The room you’ll need in February.

Because every actor has a February.

Pro
VI

Pursue

Run the business behind the art.

Relationships, bookings, finances, analytics, and everything it takes to build a career that lasts.

Pro

A year like that ended my acting career before it ever started.

Raven Beria
Raven Beriafounder

And no, I’m not famous. You haven’t seen me in anything. There isn’t a credit you’d recognize or a story about how it all worked out. That’s exactly why I wanted to build this.

Ten years ago, I gave acting everything I knew how to give. I got an agent. I went on auditions. Nothing seemed to happen. So I reached the obvious conclusion.

I wasn’t good enough.

Years later, I looked back at what had actually happened. And I was horrified.

The monologue

A room filled with students from every theater class. Working actors. A panel of judges. They chose mine and put me on a stage in front of hundreds of people.

I filed it away as a nice day.
The audition

A major film. The casting director kept stopping me. “Try it this way.” Again. “And once more.”

I didn’t get the part, so I assumed I’d been bad.
Casting directors don’t keep redirecting the actors they’ve given up on. They keep redirecting the ones they’re still fighting for.

She didn’t just outright reject me. She was trying to find the performance.

I read the loudest yes of my life as a no.

And I quit.

Looking back, I don’t think I lacked talent. I lacked a way to practice. Not once a week in class. Not once every few months in an audition. Every day.

So I’m doing it again.

I have teachers who challenge me, coaches who push me, and classmates who make me better every week. I didn’t build software to replace them. I built everything that happens between them. The rehearsals. The self-tapes. The notes. The practice. The quiet hours when nobody is watching.

The Stage is the product I needed at twenty-two.
Today, I’m building it for myself. If it helps you too, then starting over was worth it.
The math

Add up what you're already paying.

What you're stitching together
The Stage
A line-rehearsal appto get the lines in
$7–15 /mo
Cuereads every other character out loud and comes back in on your cue
Free
A readerwhen you can find one who is free
$20+ /session
Cue againit's the same feature, and it doesn't have a schedule
Free
A video editorto cut the tape down
$16–23 /mo
Self-taperecord, compare the takes, trim, slate, reframe, send
Free
A website builderfor the page casting opens
$16–17 /mo
Marqueeyour page, at your name, and you can see who opened it
Free
A reel, cut for youand the wait that comes with it
$150–350 /yr
Reel Buildercut from takes you already have, rendered in seconds
Included
Somewhere to track auditionsa spreadsheet, or a paid workspace
$10–20 /mo
Auditions & Bookingsevery submission, callback and booking, with the funnel drawn
Pro
A bookkeeping appfor the April you're dreading
$19–20 /mo
Receiptsmileage at this year's rate, meals, and a P&L built for actors
Pro
$80–130
a month · seven bills · seven companies
not one of them knows you're an actor
Free to start
$12.99 a month for Pro · $99.99 a year
the rehearsal room is on the free plan
And four things nothing else does
Not cheaper than the alternative. There isn't one.
Table Listen

Drop in ninety pages and the whole script gets read to you, every character in its own voice, on the drive to the survival job.

Hand Scan

Photograph the notes in your own handwriting. They come back as text you can search.

Noise Removal

Room tone, hum and hiss lifted off a take, so a self-tape shot in a bedroom stops sounding like one.

Cast notes

Who you're playing, and who you're playing it opposite, written so you learn the character without learning the ending.

How much will The Stage save you on acting classes?
NOTHING.
That’s the point.

The Stage was never built to replace the people who make you better. It was built to make every hour between those classes count.

Your coach is still your coach.

Your teacher is still your teacher.

The Stage just makes sure you show up ready for both.

Free to do the work.
Pro to master it.

The rehearsal room is on the free plan. Import your sides, run the scene, tape it, and put it on your page without paying us anything.

Free
$0

Cue. Drills. Self-tape. The teleprompter. Your calendar. Your public page. The whole rehearsal room, and we don't ask you for a card.

Founding member
$49.99 /yr

Locked for as long as you keep it. First 1,000 people only. Everything in Pro at less than half price, and it never goes up on you.

Pro
$12.99 /mo

Or $99.99 a year. Study, Reflect and Pursue: notes, journal, auditions, bookings, contacts, resumes, and the P&L.

30-day refund if it's not working for you. Cancel anytime.

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The Directory.
Casting comes to you.

The room where casting directors, agents and managers find their next actor.

Your Marquee, made discoverable. Searchable by type, training, special skills and availability, so the people casting the role can find the actor who fits it. Built on the profile you already have.

Opt in early →

Open to Free and Pro. Founding members go to the front of the line.

The door
Free to do the work.
Pro to master it.
“I’ve never been able to create one calendar event for a performance schedule that includes both evening shows and matinees, but the multi-session entry makes it easy and clean.”
Scot Colford · Actor

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