Table Read

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.
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A mother is murdered. A tape destroys everything. And a driver who kept his mouth shut for twelve years finally decides to speak — with blood.

ACT THREE

The blackmail worked.
That’s the problem.
Because once the truth is out, there’s nothing left to negotiate.
Only what it costs.
Sal is done driving.
He’s done surviving.
And for the first time since he walked out of prison, he’s not trying to stay clean... he’s trying to settle accounts.

Hara finally reveals what Lotta really built, not a hustle, not a side game, but a system designed to take down men who thought they were untouchable. Vincent moves to contain it. Charlie gets caught in the fallout. And Carmela... the only innocent in a guilty world, pays for all of it.
That’s the moment the story breaks.
Not when the tape surfaces.
When the family does.
Act Three is not about power.
It’s about what power does when it slips.
Doors close. Phones stop ringing. Old friends don’t answer.
And the men who used to run everything start hiding from one man who has nothing left to lose.
Sal isn’t looking for a way out.
He’s looking for the last word.

And it’s waiting in a garage... one hostage, one voice over the intercom, and one decision that decides who walks and who gets carried out.
My Lady’s Song was never about blackmail.
It was about what happens after.
This is the part nobody survives.

🎭 CAST
SAL – Ronnie Marmo
CHARLIE – Sam McMurray
SENATOR BAXTER / THE JOHN – Joe Mantegna
VINCENT – Dan Lauria
HARA – Gia Mantegna
LOTTA – Ally Dunbar
DONNA – Janelle Marmo
CARMELA – Patty McCormack
PORN DIRECTOR – Robert Wuhl
LEO – Zeke Alton
ANTHONY – Alec Leonard
NARRATOR – Vanessa Richardson

With additional performances from:
Janelle Marmo, Ally Dunbar, Gia Mantegna, Zeke Alton, Alec Leonard

🎬 PRODUCTION
Directed by Jack Levy & Mark Knell
Executive Produced by Shaan Sharma, Mark Knell, and Jack Levy
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.

A limo driver. A blackmail tape in motion. A senator with everything to protect.
What started as leverage is about to turn into control, betrayal, and survival.

ACT TWO

The ride is over. The damage is not.

What was leverage becomes exposure.
And everyone wants a piece of it.

Sal thought he could drive away from it.
He was wrong.

The tape moves.

Hands change. Intentions shift.
And the people behind it start stepping into the light.

Vincent steps in. Old world. Old rules.
A man who understands that power isn’t what you have… it’s what you can take back.

Charlie circles.
Smiling just enough to make you wonder how far this goes.

And Baxter?

He doesn’t panic. He recalculates.
Because men like him don’t lose… they rewrite the outcome.

Hara sees it too.

The angles. The leverage. The opening.
And she’s not asking permission.

The city fades in the rearview. The road stretches out.
What’s left is distance… and decisions.

Who controls the tape?
Who controls the story?
And who walks away from it?

Because now it’s not about the job.

It’s about ownership.

Act Two is where alliances fracture, truth gets negotiated, and silence becomes the most dangerous move in the room.

And by the time it’s over…

no one is clean.

🎭 CAST

SAL – Ronnie Marmo
CHARLIE – Sam McMurray
SENATOR BAXTER / THE JOHN – Joe Mantegna
VINCENT – Dan Lauria
HARA – Gia Mantegna
LOTTA – Ally Dunbar
NARRATOR – Vanessa Richardson
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

🎬 PRODUCTION

Directed by Jack Levy & Mark Knell
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.

MY LADY'S SONG
A limo driver. Two porn stars. A senator with everything to lose.
One night in New York that turns into leverage, betrayal, and war.

ACT ONE
New York. Late-night Eighth Avenue. Strip clubs, neon, and power moving quietly behind tinted glass.
Sal “The Barber” Marino is a former soldier of the streets, a man who did twelve years without talking and now makes a living driving high-end clients through a city he no longer trusts.
One call pulls him back in.
A simple job. Easy money. Drive the girls. Pick up the client. Keep your mouth shut.
But the client is a powerful senator.
The ride is being recorded.
And the job isn’t what it seems.
What starts as routine turns into leverage. a blackmail setup that reaches into politics, unions, and the last remnants of old-school control.
As the night bleeds into morning and the city gives way to the open road, Sal is locked in with Hara; young, sharp, and unpredictable. Two worlds collide. Old code versus new survival.
And then it breaks.
A confrontation. A line crossed.
A slap that lands harder than anything that came before.
That’s the moment everything changes.
Act One ends when business becomes personal... and there’s no going back.

🎭 CAST
SAL – Ronnie Marmo
CHARLIE – Sam McMurray
SENATOR BAXTER / THE JOHN – Joe Mantegna
VINCENT – Dan Lauria
HARA – Gia Mantegna
LOTTA – Ally Dunbar
NARRATOR – Vanessa Richardson
DONNA – Janelle Marmo
CARMELA – Patty McCormack
PORN DIRECTOR – Robert Wuhl
LEO – Zeke Alton
ANTHONY – Alec Leonard

🎬 PRODUCTION
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.

🎧 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
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