About Recast

It's the permanent record of who performed in every theater production, every night.

Right now, the record doesn't really exist. While some people save their programs, the vast majority end up in recycling bins. Understudy slips get lost. The digital cast lists you find online tend to disappear after a few weeks. So if you saw an understudy go on as Elphaba on a random Tuesday in 2019, there's essentially no authoritative source that proves it happened.

We're building that source.

Two groups:

Actors— who deserve a permanent, professional, owned home for their work. Every performance you've given. Every role you've covered. Every understudy slot. All of it, archived forever, on a profile page you control.

Audiences— who want to remember what they saw. Track the shows you've attended. Follow actors across productions. See your theatergoing history laid out the way Letterboxd shows your movie history.

Eventually those two groups feed each other. Actors care because audiences are paying attention. Audiences care because actors keep their data fresh. That's the loop.

Because actors deserve a professional home for their work that lasts longer than the run of a show.

Because understudies who go on for a single night deserve permanent credit.

Because if you saw Patti LuPone's last performance, that should be a fact you can prove, not a memory you have to defend.

The infrastructure for theater's permanent record doesn't exist yet. We're building it.

No. You can browse anything on Recast without signing up — every cast list, every show page, every actor profile. We don't think you should have to register to see who's on tonight.

You only need an account if you want to:

• Claim your actor profile (if you're a performer)
• Track shows you've attended (if you're an audience member)
• Edit cast assignments (if you're contributing data to the community record)

Otherwise, look around. It's free, it's open, no login wall.

The kind of profile you wish you already had.

You get up to ten headshots. Up to a thousand words for your bio. Up to ten YouTube embeds and ten TikTok embeds for reels, performance footage, audition tape — whatever you want. Direct links to your Instagram, TikTok, personal website, and agent contact. A permanent record of every role you've performed, every night you've gone on as a cover, every production you've been part of.

When you claim your profile, you get a verified badge. That badge means it's actually you.

This is yours. Forever.

When you sign up, we'll ask if you're an actor. If you are, we'll search for your name in our database. If we already have a stub profile for you (because someone added you to a cast list), you claim it. If we don't, you create one from scratch.

Either way, once it's yours, you control it. No one can edit your bio, your photos, or your social links except you.

Any logged-in user can submit cast information for a performance. That's intentional. We're trying to build a complete record, and that means letting the community contribute.

But — and this matters — only the actor can edit their own profile content. Community members can say “this person played this role on this night.” They can't say anything about who that person is.

Over time we'll layer in trusted-editor permissions for power users who consistently submit accurate data. For now, the model is: lightweight, open, and self-correcting through community visibility.

Tell us. There'll be a “report” option on every entry. We'll fix it.

This is also why claimed profiles matter. If you're an actor and someone has incorrectly logged a role for you, you can flag it directly. Self-verification by the actor is the highest-trust signal we accept.

Yes. Create an account, find the show, find the performance date, log it. Your viewing history lives on your profile.

By default, your viewing history is private — only you can see it. If you want to share it (some people love this — it's a great way to compare notes with theater-loving friends), there's a toggle to make it public.

Yes. Free to browse, free to create an account, free to claim your actor profile, free to track your viewing history.

We may eventually offer paid tiers for actors who want premium profile features, or for superfan audience members who want advanced tracking and stats. But the core record — who performed in what show on what night — will always be free to access. That's the whole point.

No. Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, amateur, college, high school — if it's a theatrical production with a cast, it belongs on Recast.

A high school senior playing Tracy Turnblad in their school's production of Hairspray deserves the same permanent record as someone playing Tracy on Broadway. We mean that.

One person, for now. Daniel Kuney — a working theater general manager who's spent his career on Broadway and decided this thing should exist.

It's a small operation by design. We're building it patiently. We're not chasing valuations. We're trying to make something that's genuinely useful for actors and audiences, and we'll grow at the speed that makes the product better.

We're starting with regional and Off-Broadway productions in the New York area. As actors claim their profiles and start contributing, we'll grow outward.

If you want to be part of the early community, claim your profile and start logging.

That's how this gets built.