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. Find actors across productions. See your theatergoing history laid out the way Letterboxd shows your movie history.

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 6 YouTube videos and 3 TikTok videos for reels, performance footage, audition tape — whatever you want. Direct links to your Instagram, TikTok, and personal website. A structured representation section for your agents and managers. 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.

Head to recast.show/claimand tell us who you are. 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.

We review every claim by hand — usually within 24 hours. You can fill out your bio, add photos, and start adding past credits while you wait. Anything you submit before we verify you stays in a review queue, and the moment we approve your claim, all of it goes live.

For a step-by-step walkthrough, see the Help page.

Recast is built like a community wiki. Any logged-in user can contribute. We sort contributions by trust:

• Verified performers publish instantly for shows they're in. They're closest to the truth, so we trust them with direct edits.
• Everyone else goes through a light review queue. We approve most submissions within 24 hours.
• Performance-specific edits (“who was on tonight”) auto-approve when three different signed-in users propose the same change within 30 days. An admin can also approve directly.

Either way, 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.

Tell us. The contact form is the fastest way to flag anything broken. We read every message and we'll fix it.

On our end, every edit is logged with the user who made it, and we can roll back any change. The audit log is part of why this works — over time, the trustworthiness of the data is built into who's doing the editing.

Self-verification by the actor is the highest-trust signal we accept. If someone has incorrectly logged a role for you, claiming your profile gives you direct edit access on shows you're in.

Yes. Create an account, find the show, find the performance date, and 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.

It's live. Go try it.

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've been quietly building. A growing catalog of Broadway productions is already live, with Off-Broadway and regional close behind. New shows and performers are joining every week.

If you want to be part of the early community, claim your profile, log shows you've seen, or just tell us what you think. This record gets better with every person who contributes.

We're still early. Your feedback shapes what this becomes.