Getting started on Recast

Go to recast.show/claim and tell us who you are. If we already have a stub for you (because someone else added you to a cast list), claim that. If we don't, create a new profile.

We review every claim by hand — usually within 24 hours. While you wait, you can fill out everything else. Your work won't be wasted; once we verify you, anything you submitted goes live immediately.

From your profile page, click Edit profile and add:

• Photos— up to 10. We compress them for you, so you don't have to worry about file size. Drag to reorder; the first one is your headshot.
• Bio — up to 1,000 words. Use it however you want — training, credits, philosophy, where you grew up. The bio collapses below a few hundred words and expands on click, so feel free to write at length.
• YouTube + TikTok — up to 10 of each. Reels, performance footage, audition tape, anything you want associated with your work.
• Socials + agent — Instagram, TikTok, personal site, agent contact. Anything that helps people reach you.

On your profile, scroll to your credits section and click + Add a credit. The form expands inline.

Start by typing the show title. We search across every show in our database in real time:

• If we have it — the show appears in the dropdown. Pick it. This links you to the existing show with all its data. Then enter your character name and save.
• If we don't— the form expands further. Fill in the venue, city, and dates you remember. The only required field is the character name; everything else is optional. Save, and we'll create the show alongside your credit in one shot.

Once you pick a show, you'll also see Joined and Leftdate fields. These are your personal dates in that production — separate from the show's overall run. Fill in whatever you remember: a year is fine, a full date is better. Recast uses these to determine whether you were on stage for any given performance, which is what drives the on/out display audiences see on nightly performance pages. If you don't remember, leave them blank — they can be filled in later.

You can keep adding credits in one sitting. Each save clears the form and shows + Add another credit — keep going until your history is filled in.

The whole point of Recast is one trustworthy record per show, per venue, per city. A few things you can do that make a real difference:

• Pick from autocomplete when you can. When you type a show, venue, or city, we surface existing matches. Picking one ties your credit to the canonical record instead of creating a near-duplicate.
• Don't agonize over the perfect spelling.We do case-insensitive matching on venues and cities before creating new ones, so “Lyceum” and “Lyceum Theatre” still find their way to the same row.
• If you spot a duplicate or a wrong cast list, tell us. We'd rather hear about it than miss it. Use the contact form and we'll fix it.

On our end, we're running an audit log on every edit and reviewing every submission from a non-verified user. So even if something goes sideways, we can roll it back.

You'll get an email confirming you're on the record. From there:

• Anything you submitted while we were reviewing goes live automatically.
• Future show submissions and credit additions publish instantly. No queue.
• Cast edits for shows you're in — updating your Joined/Left dates, fixing a character name, adding a castmate — also go live immediately. Head to the show page and look for the cast editing controls.
• For shows you're not in (a replacement you heard about, a departure that isn't recorded yet), use Suggest a cast change on the show page. A moderator reviews those before they go live.
• Your profile shows up in search and in the public people directory.

The fastest way to make Recast useful for you is to make it useful for the people you work with. If you've added a show that isn't fully cast yet, send the show link to your castmates. Each of them can claim their own profile, add their character, and the cast list fills in.

That's how this gets built.