Table Read

Manifest Media / TABLE READ

Cinema for your ears. Performed by Hollywood’s best. Step inside the studio where Hollywood’s top actors bring award-winning screenplays to life... complete with a full cinematic score, immersive sound design, and the energy of a live performance. Each episode is a front-row seat to a one-of-a-kind production: 20-plus working actors, world-class scripts from acclaimed writers, and film-quality sound crafted by Emmy-winning producers. It’s not just a podcast... it’s a movie you hear. Recent guests include Mark Hamill, Rosario Dawson, Ty Burrell, Joe Mantegna, Fred Armisen, and more. Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell Manifest Media. #1 Fiction Podcast | 2025 Webby, Shorty, and Signal Winner | Cinema for your ears. 👉 TableReadPodcast.com

  1. THE G.Y.M. — PILOT ACTS 2 & 3

    23 HR AGO

    THE G.Y.M. — PILOT ACTS 2 & 3

    THE G.Y.M. — PILOT, ACTS TWO AND THREE By Dani Hanks Pick up where Act One left off. Valerie still cannot get her commercial. The film crew is still in her face. The Solstice gym across the street is still winning. And things are about to get considerably worse. Bryan is teaching group fitness despite not knowing what "happy baby" is, and every senior in the building keeps asking when Reggie is coming back. Kayla is supposed to be training her client. Her client is currently turning purple under a barbell. The cameraman looks weirdly familiar to her and she cannot place it. Chris is somewhere in the locker room going through a smoothie situation he did not ask for. Wade the IT guy is crawling through a server closet stuffed with the unpaid invoices Valerie has been hiding in her clipboard. And Valerie, our hero, has just told the cute IT guy that her anaconda doesn't want his real estate funds. It's fine. Everything is fine. By the time we get to the pool, Alexa is jumping off a diving board she has no business being on, Bryan is leading a secret back room of seniors through a yoga pose he learned thirty seconds ago, Wade is sitting next to a soaking wet Valerie holding the worst envelopes she's ever seen in her life, and the truth about who's been filming all day is about to drop in the middle of the room like a brick through a window. Underneath the chaos, this is what the show is actually about: a woman trying to save the only place she ever felt at home, with a crew of misfits who have nowhere else to go either. Norman Lear would recognize this gym. So would anybody who's ever worked at one. Meanwhile, across the street, in a chrome office at the new Solstice, a Southern silver fox in a tall cowboy hat is watching the whole thing through binoculars. He is having the time of his life. He is not done with The G.Y.M. Not even close. Recorded live at Podcast Movement at SXSW in front of a packed house of our peers, and you can hear it in the room. Video version available on YouTube and across our channels. CAST Heather Foster - Narrator Allison Dunbar - Valerie Yasmine Al-Bustami - Kayla and Spin Client Kensington Tallman - Alexa and White Trash Spin Diva Shaan Sharma - Wade, Bored EMT, and Johnny Joe Nemmers - Gary Hughes, Cocky Newscaster, Television, and Gruff Driver Jacob A. Ware - Bryan and Sam Brian Villalobos - Chris, Weak-Armed Client, and Handyman Amy Bailey - Mary, Gem, Peppy Newscaster, First AC, and Phone Scott Hervey - Client Carlin (special guest appearance, our attorney from Weintraub Tobin) Produced by Manifest Media. Created by Jack Levy, Mark Knell, and Shaan Sharma. This live read benefits Best Friends Animal Society, selected by Allison Dunbar, dedicated to bringing no-kill to every shelter in the country. Save Them All. bestfriends.org/donate See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    23 min
  2. You Might Also Like: The Personal Finance Podcast

    23 HR AGO ·  BONUS

    You Might Also Like: The Personal Finance Podcast

    Introducing How to Build Your Investment Portfolio (The Portfolio Pyramid!) from The Personal Finance Podcast. Follow the show: The Personal Finance Podcast Most new investors start building their portfolio completely backwards. Here is the exact framework to build it the right way from the very first dollar.  👉 Join Andrew's FREE Portfolio Pyramid Masterclass. What You'll Learn in This Episode The complete Portfolio Pyramid framework and exactly how much of your money belongs in each of the three tiers Why the foundation should make up 80% of your portfolio and what happens to your wealth when you skip it The specific index funds and ETFs that belong in your foundation and why they outperform most professional money managers What the growth layer is, what goes in it, and the individual stocks Andrew is personally buying right now When you have actually earned the right to add speculative assets to your portfolio and how much is too much The biggest mistakes investors make at every tier and how to avoid all of them Four advanced Q&As covering a guaranteed $99K teacher's pension, lowering taxes on a $1M 401k rollover, Medicare costs in retirement, and protecting your portfolio as you age Start Here  Join the community built to help you master your money, stay accountable, and reach financial freedom.   👉 Try Master Money Academy FREE for 7 days today! 👉 Join Andrew’s FREE Investing for Beginners Masterclass. 👉 Join The Master Money Newsletter where you will become smarter with your money in 5 minutes or less per week Here! Partner Deals Indeed → Get a $75 sponsored job credit http://Indeed.com/personalfinance Policygenius → Free life insurance quote http://policygenius.com Acorns → Start investing + get $5 bonus http://acorns.com/pfp Monarch → The all-in-one financial tool + Get 50% Off at http://www.monarch.com/PFP Shopify → Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at http://shopify.com/pfp   Wayfair → Get 80% OFF on April 25th through the 27th http://wayfair.com   DeleteMe → 20% off with code PFP https://joindeleteme.com/PFP20/ Tool/s Mentioned Investment Calculator Retirement Calculator  Resource/s Mentioned Trust and Will   Episode/s Mentioned The Simple Path to Wealth (With J.L. Collins)  The Biggest Retirement Mistakes People Make (Avoid These!) Jesse Cramer  Watch Next How to Invest Your First $10K  The Financial Priorities That Matter Most (By Life Stage)  AI Is Coming for Your Job. Here's How to Prepare Financially   How to Reduce Your Car Insurance (And Save Thousands)  The $10K, $100K, $1M Milestones That Change Everything Connect with Andrew Instagram Website TikTok X LinkedIn YouTube Question for you: Where are you right now in the Portfolio Pyramid? Are you still building your foundation, starting to add growth layer investments, or have you moved into speculation territory?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to team@podroll.fm.

  3. PV & FRANNY - Part 2

    28 APR

    PV & FRANNY - Part 2

    PV & FRANNY A girl with a glockenspiel. A boy with a guitar. A high school full of weirdos, mascots who may or may not be unhinged, and a mystery that isn’t what anyone thinks it is. A dead-serious love story… that refuses to behave like one. One flier turns into a band. One band turns into obsession. And before they ever play a real set, everything is already ridiculous. ACT TWO If Act One is about starting a band, Act Two is about what happens when everything immediately gets in the way. Franny does what any rational person would do. He writes a love song. Which would be fine… except for the rule. No romance. Ever. And PV means it. What follows is a series of perfectly logical decisions that somehow make everything worse. A love song that says too much. A date that shouldn’t exist. A plan to fix things that only complicates them further. Because if PV won’t date a bandmate, there’s only one solution: Make the competition part of the band. Which works. Until it doesn’t. As alliances shift, rules get enforced, and Franny finds himself deeper in a situation he cannot control, the band becomes something else entirely. Not just music. Not just friendship. Something closer to a test. Of loyalty. Of identity. Of whether you can separate what you create from how you feel. And in the middle of it all, the stakes quietly expand. A school competition that suddenly matters. A partnership that feels more intense than anything either of them expected. And a realization that success might not look the way they imagined it. Act Two is where the band takes shape, the lines get blurred, and the consequences of those rules start to land. Because sometimes the only thing more complicated than love… …is trying to avoid it. 🎭 CAST NARRATOR – Ty Burrell AJAY – Rahm Braslaw JUDY – Samantha Morelos MARIAN – Eileen Fogarty PV – Kensington Tallman RYUZO – O’Neill Monahan FRANNY – Liam Richardson GROUNDSKEEPER – Fred Armisen DALE – Ruben Ray TAP WATER BOTTLED WATER JINGLE – Chris Mann 🎬 PRODUCTION Written by Tommy Wallach Directed by Mark Knell & Jack Levy Executive Produced by Shaan Sharma, Jack Levy, and Mark Knell Table Read is a Manifest Media production. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    18 min
  4. PV & FRANNY - Part 1

    21 APR

    PV & FRANNY - Part 1

    PV & FRANNY A girl with a glockenspiel. A boy with a guitar. A high school full of weirdos, mascots who may or may not be unhinged, and a mystery that isn’t what anyone thinks it is. A dead-serious love story… that refuses to behave like one. One flier turns into a band. One band turns into obsession. And before they ever play a real set, everything is already ridiculous. ACT ONE Overton High is chaos in a controlled environment. The mascot smokes. The journalist thinks she’s breaking Watergate. The nicest bully in school politely refuses lunch money. And then there’s PV. Brilliant. Intense. Completely uncompromising. She doesn’t want to start a band. She wants to build something real. Franny Blevins just wants to be part of it. What begins as an awkward coffee shop encounter quickly turns into a partnership built on music, rules, and one very firm boundary: No romance. Ever. Which becomes a problem almost immediately. As Franny gets pulled deeper into PV’s world, her music, her logic, her investigations, and her completely upside-down way of seeing everything, the stakes escalate in the most unexpected ways. A hate note that isn’t hate. An audition that turns into an interrogation. A band that starts to feel like something much bigger… and much messier. Act One is the beginning of the band, the beginning of the obsession, and the moment everything starts to spiral just slightly out of control. 🎭 CAST NARRATOR – Ty Burrell AJAY – Rahm Braslaw JUDY – Samantha Morelos MARIAN – Eileen Fogarty PV – Kensington Tallman RYUZO – O’Neill Monahan FRANNY – Liam Richardson GROUNDSKEEPER – Fred Armisen DALE – Ruben Ray TAP WATER BOTTLED WATER JINGLE – Chris Mann 🎬 PRODUCTION Written by Tommy Wallach Directed by Mark Knell & Jack Levy Executive Produced by Shaan Sharma, Jack Levy, and Mark Knell Table Read is a Manifest Media production. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    21 min
  5. 🎧 THE G.Y.M. | Trailer

    23 MAR

    🎧 THE G.Y.M. | Trailer

    🎧 THE G.Y.M. Welcome to THE G.Y.M. Not a gym. A situation. Valerie inherited a neighborhood gym from her mother. What she actually inherited? Debt, broken equipment, a failing business… and a staff that turns every small problem into a full-blown emergency. Across the street, a sleek corporate fitness empire is opening with glass walls, perfect lighting, and zero chaos. Inside The G.Y.M.? Flooded hot tubs. Out-of-order bikes. A spin class that may or may not be a lawsuit waiting to happen. And a “Grand Re-Opening” that could either save the place… or finally finish it. This is a workplace comedy where nothing works, nobody communicates, and every attempt to fix things somehow makes them worse. Think Parks and Recreation meets It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, set inside a failing gym where the stakes are low… until suddenly they’re not. Recorded live at SXSW /. Podcast Movement, this Austin Film Festival award-winning script by Dani Hanks delivers fast, character-driven comedy with just enough heart to make you root for people who absolutely should not be in charge of anything. You don’t come here to get fit. You come here because something is definitely about to go wrong. 🎭 Cast Allison Dunbar as Valerie Yasmine Al-Bustami as Kayla Kensington Tallman as Alexa Shaan Sharma as Wade Joe Nemmers as Gary Hughes Jacob A. Ware as Bryan Brian Villalobos as Chris Amy Bailey as Mary Heather Foster, Narrator Special appearance by our attorney Scott Hervey as Client Carlin 🎬 From Table Read Podcast Executive Producers: Jack Levy, Mark Knell, & Shaan Sharma Produced by Manifest Media Productions Recorded live at SXSW / Podcast Movement See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1 min
  6. My Lady’s Song - Trailer

    EPISODE 48

    My Lady’s Song - Trailer

    TABLE READ: My Lady’s Song Written by Dan Lauria New York. Late-night Eighth Avenue. Strip clubs, limos, politicians, porn stars, and ghosts of the old neighborhood. My Lady’s Song drops you straight into the smoky, blood-soaked underbelly of a city that doesn’t forgive and never forgets. Sal “The Barber” Marino is an aging ex-soldier of the streets — a limo driver who once did twelve years without talking. Now he drives high-end clients and keeps his head down. But when a powerful senator, a pair of porn stars, and a blackmail tape collide during sensitive union negotiations, Sal is pulled back into a world he thought he left behind. This is not a nostalgia piece. This is loyalty versus survival. Old code versus new money. Family versus leverage. Set against a soundtrack style of Billie Holiday, Etta James, Dinah Washington, and Bessie Smith, My Lady’s Song moves like Goodfellas at midnight and feels like The Sopranos when the jokes stop being funny. What starts as a simple drive to Los Angeles turns into a reckoning — with betrayal, with memory, and with the cost of keeping your mouth shut. Nobody in podcasting is bringing this level of writing, performance, and cinematic scope. This is prestige drama. Performed. Not narrated. Hollywood caliber. Start to finish. ___________________________________ 🎭 FULL CAST SAL – Ronnie Marmo An ex-con soldier turned limo driver. Hardened. Loyal. Dangerous when pushed. CHARLIE – Sam McMurray La Salle Limo manager. Old-school operator with a sharp tongue. SENATOR BAXTER / THE JOHN – Joe Mantegna Powerful, polished, and utterly ruthless. Politics meets leverage. VINCENT – Dan Lauria Union boss. Businessman. Architect of control. HARA – Gia Mantegna Young, defiant, smarter than everyone assumes. LOTTA – Ally Dunbar Savvy operator. Knows how to play both sides of the camera. NARRATOR – Vanessa Richardson A true-crime icon brings gravitas and noir elegance to the storytelling spine. DONNA – Janelle Marmo CARMELA – Patty McCormack PORN DIRECTOR – Robert Wuhl LEO – Zeke Alton ANTHONY – Alec Leonard With additional performances from: Janelle Marmo Ally Dunbar Gia Mantegna Zeke Alton Alec Leonard This cast could walk onto a soundstage tomorrow and shoot this for theatrical release. It’s that level. ____________________________________________________________________ Directed by Mark Knell & Jack Levy Executive Produced by Shaan Sharma, Jack Levy, and Mark Knell Table Read is a Manifest Media production. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    2 min
  7. Caravaggio - Act 3

    24 FEB

    Caravaggio - Act 3

    The cage breaks open. Caravaggio breaks with it. Chained in a torture chamber beneath the fortress, Caravaggio faces the Grand Master one last time. Faith against flesh. Obedience against desire. What follows is an escape down a fortress wall, a boat in the dark, and a fugitive painter running not toward freedom but toward the only thing he has left. Act Three is the fall. Brutal. Beautiful. Inevitable. Sicily. Caravaggio paints like a man on fire. In Syracuse, a burial. In Messina, a nativity. Each canvas more desperate than the last. Each one a confession he cannot say out loud. The genius is still there. The man holding the brush is disappearing. Back in Rome, the news arrives. Lena. The woman whose face launched his greatest work. Gone. Caravaggio learns what it costs to leave someone behind in a city that devours the unprotected. Cardinal Del Monte makes his final play. A pardon. A real one. Signed by the Pope himself. But the pardon needs a delivery and Caravaggio needs to stay alive long enough to receive it. Naples. A prison cell. Malaria. Chains. The Grand Master finds him one last time. Two men who could never say what they meant finally say it. It is too late for both of them. Then a swamp. Bandits. A boiling sun. A beach. A boy. Two nuns. And the Tyrrhenian coast, where the greatest painter of his generation reaches for the light one final time. The pardon arrives. The man does not. Act Three is reckoning. Loss. Grace. The moment the fuse runs out. What you see in the art, you will find in the artist. What you see in the artist, you will find in the man. Cast Dennis Kleinman · Narrator Craig Parker · Caravaggio Dan Lauria · Cardinal Del Monte Bruce Davison · Alof de Wignacourt Shaan Sharma · Stefano della Croce Catherine Lidstone · Lena Sarah Elmaleh · Maria Brendan Bradley · Annibale Carracci Noah James · Ranuccio Tomassoni Josh Sterling · Ottavio Tomassoni Zeke Alton · Giovan Tomassoni Nick Monteleone · Mancini Matt Curtin · Toppa Bjorn Johnson · Pope Paul V Ray Abruzzo · Pope Clement VIII Written by Richard Vetere Executive Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell Table Read is a Manifest Media production. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    49 min
  8. Caravaggio - Act 2

    17 FEB

    Caravaggio - Act 2

    Malta. A fortress carved from rock, surrounded by sea, ruled by warrior monks who pray at dawn and kill by noon. Caravaggio arrives to paint a portrait. He stays because he has no choice. The Grand Master offers sanctuary, admiration, and something neither man is prepared to name. The Captain at Arms offers suspicion, jealousy, and a locked door every night. Act Two is the cage. Beautiful. Suffocating. Holy. Caravaggio paints the Grand Master's portrait and captures more than armor and scars. He captures a man's loneliness. The Knights throw a feast in his honor. He dances on tables. He is knighted with a gold sword. He is watched from every window. Back in Rome, Cardinal Del Monte fights for a papal pardon while the Tomassoni brothers hire bounty hunters. The Pope dies. A new Pope rises. The Church still cannot decide what Caravaggio is worth. On the beach, the Turks attack. Knights are nailed to crosses and set on fire, floated into the harbor at dawn. Caravaggio picks up a sword for the first time. He gives water to a dying boy. The boy is killed in front of him. Flashbacks pull him back to Rome. To Lena. To the night Ranuccio came for him with a blade. To the moment that changed everything. He paints The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist on a chapel wall and signs his name in the blood flowing from the saint's neck. The only painting he ever signed. Then he paints a Cupid so grotesque it seals his fate. Act Two is devotion. Desire. Betrayal. The moment a man realizes that the sanctuary he was promised is just a prison with better art on the walls. The fuse is burning. Cast Dennis Kleinman · Narrator Craig Parker · Caravaggio Dan Lauria · Cardinal Del Monte Bruce Davison · Alof de Wignacourt Shaan Sharma · Stefano della Croce Catherine Lidstone · Lena Sarah Elmaleh · Maria Brendan Bradley · Annibale Carracci Noah James · Ranuccio Tomassoni Josh Sterling · Ottavio Tomassoni Zeke Alton · Giovan Tomassoni Nick Monteleone · Mancini Matt Curtin · Toppa Bjorn Johnson · Pope Paul V Ray Abruzzo · Pope Clement VIII Written by Richard Vetere Executive Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell Table Read is a Manifest Media production. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Cinema for your ears. Performed by Hollywood’s best. Step inside the studio where Hollywood’s top actors bring award-winning screenplays to life... complete with a full cinematic score, immersive sound design, and the energy of a live performance. Each episode is a front-row seat to a one-of-a-kind production: 20-plus working actors, world-class scripts from acclaimed writers, and film-quality sound crafted by Emmy-winning producers. It’s not just a podcast... it’s a movie you hear. Recent guests include Mark Hamill, Rosario Dawson, Ty Burrell, Joe Mantegna, Fred Armisen, and more. Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell Manifest Media. #1 Fiction Podcast | 2025 Webby, Shorty, and Signal Winner | Cinema for your ears. 👉 TableReadPodcast.com

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