Bringing stories to life, one table read at a time.

Act Write Here connects actors with writers for virtual table reads, combining casting, scheduling, performance, and digital production into one workflow so creatives can focus on the work itself.

Our partners

  • The University of Texas at Austin
  • Wake Forest University
  • University of Iowa
  • The American Academy of Dramatic Arts
  • Women In Film
  • Dramatists Guild Foundation
  • Denver Film Festival
  • Aesthetica Film Festival
  • NFFTY

Actors need writers. Writers need actors. Act Write Here brings them together.

A live table read: the Peter Pan script in the centre, six cast tiles and the room toolbar.

Act Write Here is the virtual playhouse, taking a producer's skill to assemble the people, tools, and space that move a script from the page into performance so the work never waits.

This is the place where actors exercise their creative muscles and writers can hear their characters come to life for the first time.

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Build your profile
Set your preferences and schedule
Get cast automatically or claim the roles you want.

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A script under a glass bell jar on a pedestal, sheltered from a downpour of data

Our stance on AI

Act Write Here is committed to protecting creators and creative ownership against unauthorized artificial intelligence, machine learning, scraping, synthetic media, and automated exploitation. This will always be about real people doing real table reads, all the time. We are here to benefit human creativity, not artificial creativity. Therefore, we do not support AI-generated writing, scripts, or art on this platform.

Act Write Here does not train AI models using any content on this platform, and does not sell, license, or provide that content for AI training purposes. There is no artificial intelligence and no large language models used on Act Write Here.

Storytelling is an intrinsically human endeavor. Let’s keep it that way.

Creating a vibrant community of storytellers

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