TABLE READINGS
We meet monthly (every 4th Monday) and usually in midtown in a conference room. A conference room is setup in boardroom style or audience style, depending on the writer's preference and what best works for the script. This is worked out with your host in advance. We aim to create the most productive environment for the best experience to hear your script.
If you're a WRITER:
After your script is selected for the designated month, a host will be assigned to you. You have to complete a SUBMISSION FORM so that we know your goals and expectations for the reading, as well as the post-reading discussion. We require that you come to a reading prior to yours so that you have an understanding of how we break down the evening and what our company offers.
If you're an ACTOR:
Join our mailing list and you'll receive an email announcing the next month's reading. Please respond via email if you're interested AND AVAILABLE to read. After getting an offer and accepting a role, you will receive a final draft within 1-2 weeks of the reading. You are expected to read the script and make character choices about your role(s). There are no rehearsals and you do not need to be off book. You must confirm with the host that you are accepting the role and can make the reading. We realize that things come up last minute and occasionally we ask other members to cold read.
If you're there to SUPPORT or LISTEN to the reading:
Whether you've come to support a writer or actor we want to hear from you, what your impressions are, if you have any questions or suggestions... anything that would be helpful to our writers. You do not need to be a writer or actor or artist of any kind. What you hear and how you hear it will be invaluable to our writers. So, speak up. We look forward to our discussions (and often get quite passionate during them.) Our members are a collaborative group of artists who will talk from different points of view with variety levels of experience.
A typical BREAKDOWN OF AN EVENING would be:
The evening of a table reading usually ends around 10 or 10:30pm, depending on the length of the script and the post-reading discussion.
Within days after the reading, the writer will have a follow-up discussion with the host. We want to hear about the writer's experience, provide you with any outstanding questions or notes (i.e. from members who had to leave early), and thank you for bringing your script to The Drawing Board.
Learn more about WORKSHOPS.
Learn more about STAGED READINGS.
We meet monthly (every 4th Monday) and usually in midtown in a conference room. A conference room is setup in boardroom style or audience style, depending on the writer's preference and what best works for the script. This is worked out with your host in advance. We aim to create the most productive environment for the best experience to hear your script.
If you're a WRITER:
After your script is selected for the designated month, a host will be assigned to you. You have to complete a SUBMISSION FORM so that we know your goals and expectations for the reading, as well as the post-reading discussion. We require that you come to a reading prior to yours so that you have an understanding of how we break down the evening and what our company offers.
If you're an ACTOR:
Join our mailing list and you'll receive an email announcing the next month's reading. Please respond via email if you're interested AND AVAILABLE to read. After getting an offer and accepting a role, you will receive a final draft within 1-2 weeks of the reading. You are expected to read the script and make character choices about your role(s). There are no rehearsals and you do not need to be off book. You must confirm with the host that you are accepting the role and can make the reading. We realize that things come up last minute and occasionally we ask other members to cold read.
If you're there to SUPPORT or LISTEN to the reading:
Whether you've come to support a writer or actor we want to hear from you, what your impressions are, if you have any questions or suggestions... anything that would be helpful to our writers. You do not need to be a writer or actor or artist of any kind. What you hear and how you hear it will be invaluable to our writers. So, speak up. We look forward to our discussions (and often get quite passionate during them.) Our members are a collaborative group of artists who will talk from different points of view with variety levels of experience.
A typical BREAKDOWN OF AN EVENING would be:
- 6:30pm GATHER, get settled, catch up with other company members
- 7:00pm READING begins (Typically Screenplays are read all the way through and Plays have an Act break.)
- 10-15 minute Post-Reading BREAK
- Post Reading DISCUSSION
The evening of a table reading usually ends around 10 or 10:30pm, depending on the length of the script and the post-reading discussion.
Within days after the reading, the writer will have a follow-up discussion with the host. We want to hear about the writer's experience, provide you with any outstanding questions or notes (i.e. from members who had to leave early), and thank you for bringing your script to The Drawing Board.
Learn more about WORKSHOPS.
Learn more about STAGED READINGS.
