Jack Levy

Welcome to The G.Y.M., the run-down fitness shithole at the end of the strip mall, where the bike handlebars snap mid-commercial, the smoothie blender needs wifi to make a smoothie, and the ambulance has already done one lap before noon. This is what happens when you put 9 actors, 1 brand-new pilot, and a packed SXSW audience in the same room and hit record. Written by Austin Film Festival winner Dani Hanks. Performed live at Podcast Movement at SXSW. Captured exactly as it landed in the room, laughs and all. Think The Office had a baby with Cheers, the baby grew up watching Superbad on loop, and then took a personal training certification class it did not finish. Starring: 🎙️ Allison Dunbar (Yellowstone, 2 Broke Girls) 🎙️ Yasmine Al-Bustami (NCIS: Hawai'i, The Chosen) 🎙️ Kensington Tallman (Riley in Pixar's Inside Out 2) 🎙️ Joe Nemmers (Tulsa King, Snitch) 🎙️ Amy Bailey (Vikings, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland) 🎙️ Jacob A. Ware (Boardwalk Empire, Fallout) 🎙️ Brian Villalobos (Apollo 10½, Love & Death) 🎙️ Shaan Sharma (The Chosen) 🎙️ Heather Foster narrating the whole beautiful disaster 🎙️ Plus a special guest appearance by our attorney Scott Hervey because why not Acts Two and Three drop next week. This live read benefits Best Friends Animal Society. Save Them All. 🐶🐱 Donate at bestfriends.org/donate Full episode dropping on @tablereadpodcast and YouTube. Audio version wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you @domjeamou for the live production! Tag the friend who would absolutely work the front desk at this gym. Written by @Dani_Hanks Cast: @AllisonDunbar @YasAlBustami @HeyKensington @Shaan_Sharma @aJacobAWare @BrianVillalobos @OfficialAmyBailey @HeatherMannFoster and Joe Nemmers @scottmhervey @markbaby63 @therealjacklevy @rubbidubb @gwassermusc @bryanbarletta @podcastmovement @sxsw Recorded with @nomonosound #TableRead #TheGYM #ComedyPodcast #LiveRead #SXSW #PodcastMovement #ManifestMedia #ComedyPilot #WorkplaceComedy #SitcomPilot #AustinFilmFestival #DaniHanks #BestFriendsAnimalSociety #SaveThemAll #PodcastClips #ComedyClips #IndieComedy #ScreenwritingCommunity #LiveComedy #SXSW2025

This started as a scene. Then two actors decided to manually laugh… and the entire room lost it. No cuts. No filters. Just great writing, great actors, and zero ability to keep it together. This is what happens when you put killer talent in a room and let it rip. We call it a podcast. Technically. 🎙️ #TableRead #BehindTheScenes #ActorsLife #Comedy #PodcastLife #NoFilter #GoodTimes

Most podcasts play in the background. This one pulls you into the room. Actors. Scripts. No safety net. Real energy. “It feels like I’m in it.” 30+ awards. 50+ nominations. iHeart nominee 2026. Press play. Stay for the ride. @markbaby63 @shaan_sharma @tablereadpodcastla

Spent all day in the studio arguing with sound. Not mixing. Arguing. Moving things by frames… convincing myself this is the one that fixes it. It wasn’t. So I did something radical. I left the room. Haircut. Five-mile hike. Me and my two-year-old German Shepherd… who came in second. Respectfully. Here’s the part nobody tells you: The longer you stay in the same environment, the less creative you get. Not more. At a certain point you’re not solving anything… you’re just rearranging the same problem in higher resolution. Then you step outside. No speakers. No timeline. No undo button. Just air, distance, and a brain that finally shuts up long enough to think. And suddenly… The thing you’ve been forcing all day? It solves itself halfway up a hill. Not because you tried harder. Because you stopped. The hike isn’t the break. It’s the upgrade.

This one broke the room. Not “haha that’s funny.” I mean full stop, can’t get through the line, people folding over, reset the take kind of broken. Nick Bannister wrote something that just does not behave. It’s sharp, it’s a little dangerous, and it keeps throwing punches when you think it’s done. And this cast… didn’t ease into it. They attacked it. No ego. No posturing. Just killers having fun and daring each other to go further. This is one of the best times we’ve had in that room. And if you know that room, that’s saying something. What’s always been frustrating is the best part of Table Read is what you don’t hear. The moments between the lines. The breaks. The chaos. The “did that just happen?” energy. Now you get all of it. Not instead of anything. Not replacing anything. Adding something we’ve never been able to share before. So yeah… as fun as it was for us this cast absolutely delivered it for you. Huge thank you to Nick for writing something this fearless. And to this group for going straight at it. And to Owl Labs for giving us a way to actually bring you into the room. You’re not just hearing it anymore. You’re in it. @jackdanielvo @therealjimoheir @jade.tailor @darintoonder @LoganLaurelOfficial @EmilyLBrolin @AshleyPlatz @ZekeAlton @deep_cut_films @markbaby63 @shaan_sharma @therealjacklevy @tablereadpodcastla @domjeamou

Wait for it. 🔊👀 This is Richard's villain monologue. Third act. The incubus has eaten the neighborhood, Mia is missing, cloven hooves on the stairs. And Richard says: "I had forgotten, oh, what's the word... the stamina of youth." The script literally tells him to grope for the word. @darintoonder gropes. And what comes out is STANIMA. Centuries-old sex demon. Apex of his villain speech. Mispronounced his entire fucking brand. The script handed Darin a joke. Darin found a better one. I've been making sound thirty years. Battlestar. Mr. Robot. Outlander. I have not laughed like this in a room in a long time. You cannot fake a room. That's the whole argument. No ADR. No Zoom. Nine working actors at one table playing off each other. Split them up, you lose this. You lose STANIMA. 🎙️ Captured live by the Owl Labs 4+. Audio, video, one device, the whole cast. Wild piece of tech. The script: SUBURBAKNIGHT by Nick Bannister of Deep Cut Films. Sam Raimi meets Judd Apatow between Fright Night and American Beauty. Don't sleep on Nick. The cast that broke me Saturday: 🎙️ NARRATOR @jackdanielvo — the Clyde Stubblefield of Table Read. 🏚️ WALTER @therealjimoheir — Jim carried the emotional spine on his back. 💛 SAMANTHA @jade.tailor — Jade walked in and the room changed temperature. 🩸 BOBBY JOE WILLIAMS — Rob Fitzgerald. Joe Bob Briggs meets Ash. A force. 😈 RICHARD @darintoonder — verified holder of legendary STANIMA. 🖤 MIA @loganlaurelofficial — Logan brought teenage menace and made you root for her anyway. 💜 KAI @emilylbrolin — Mia's best friend. Emily's going to be a problem for casting directors. 🔥 ALLI @ashleyplatz — Ashley demolished it. 🎮 ANDY @zekealton — Zeke is automatic. If you're scrolling thinking "I couldn't pull that off" — you can. Get the room. Pick the script. Press record. More to come. 🎬 @markbaby63 @shaan_sharma @tablereadpodcastla @deep_cut_films @domjeamou - thanks for the killer BTS footage and engagement production! #TableRead #SAGAFTRA #ScriptedPodcast #FrightNight #HorrorComedy #FilmTok #ActorsLife #CinemaForYourEars #IndieFilmmaking #IndieHorror #OwlLabs #ManifestMedia #DeepCutFilms

Owl cam on. Whole cast in frame. Every reaction caught. Suburbaknight by Nick Bannister. Suburban horror-comedy with teeth. This one’s a riot. #tablereadpodcast #fictionpodcast #audiodrama #podcastsofinstagram #behindthescenes onset indiefilm scriptedpodcast

Tomorrow we read SUBURBAKNIGHT. It's a Sam Raimi movie that thinks it's a Judd Apatow movie that thinks it's a Shakespeare play about a guy's wilting erection. Lean into the sincerity under the splatter. That's where this thing lives. Written by Nick Bannister. Award-winning horror writer out of Dallas. He wrote a demon-shot-in-the-dick climax and made it land emotional. That is not a skill they teach. THE READ, IN ONE BREATH. Walter (Jim O'Heir) runs his dead dad's dying antique store, can't pay rent, can't get it up, and his wife Samantha (Jade Tailor) is patient in the way saints are patient right before they file paperwork. Enter Richard (Darin Toonder), the new neighbor. Rich, ripped, speaks French, builds playgrounds for orphans, definitely an incubus. Walter sees him decapitate a woman through a spyglass. Nobody believes him. Not the cops, not Samantha, not his goth daughter Mia (Logan Laurel), not his neighbor Andy (Zeke Alton), who's too busy gaming while his wife Alli (Ashley Platz) starves in the kitchen. Walter recruits Bobby Joe Williams (Rob Fitzgerald), half Joe Bob Briggs, half Ash Williams, one hundred percent bar-puke-mopping hack. Things go poorly. Then worse. Then an orgy turns into a massacre. Then Walter puts on a suit of armor. Then they shoot the demon in the dick. Narrated by Jack Daniel, because of course it is. Also in the cast: Emily Brolin as Kai. We're working with Owl Labs to bring the star power you hear on the mic to YouTube. Meeting Owl 4+ in the center of the table. 4K, 360, dialogue tracking that locks onto whoever's speaking. Live performance is the difference. A band cutting together sounds nothing like four musicians stitched later. That's why we sit in a circle. Heaviest dialogue partners across, never adjacent. 40M+ downloads. 29+ awards. 2025 Webby, Shorty, Signal winner. Cinema for your ears. Now with the faces to match. 1, 2, 3, Table Read. deep_cut_films @therealjimoheir @jade.tailor @darintoonder @LoganLaurelOfficial @ZekeAlton @AshleyPlatz @EmilyLBrolin @jackdanielvo @tablereadpodcastla @markbaby63 @shaan_sharma #TableRead #SUBURBAKNIGHT #HorrorComedy #SAGAFTRA #OwlLabs

Okay, real talk for a sec. 👇 40 million downloads. 29 awards. 350+ SAG-AFTRA actors. And none of it happens without YOU, the people who actually listen. So we're saying thank you the only way that makes sense. We're giving stuff away. 3 reviewers. 3 prizes. 1 ridiculously easy way to enter. 🎟️👕🧢 THE PRIZES: 🎟️ VIP Live Recording Experience. Come watch a Table Read get made, have lunch with the cast, and see the whole thing from the inside (travel not included) 👕 Table Read tee signed by one of our 2026 casts 🧢 The official Table Read hat HOW TO ENTER (takes 90 seconds): 1️⃣ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Stars AND words. Tell us what you love. 2️⃣ Post this image or screenshot your review 3️⃣ Tag @TableReadPodcastLA That's it. That's the whole thing. Let's get more people to the Table. 🎙️ . .#TableRead #PodcastGiveaway #Giveaway #FreeMerch #FictionPodcast #PodcastersOfInstagram #AudioDrama #PodcastCommunity

Quick ask. Big impact: If you love Table Read—write a review on Apple Podcasts. Not stars. Words. We’re picking 3 reviewers to win one of these prizes: 🎟 Live recording BTS access! - watch a live recording & have lunch with the cast! (travel expenses not covered) 👕 Table Read tee signed by one of our 2026 casts! 🧢 Table Read logo hat! 1️⃣Leave a Review for us on Apple Podcasts 2️⃣Post this image OR your podcast review! 3️⃣Tag @TableReadPodcastLA Let’s get more people to the Table! #Giveaway #podcastgiveaway #freemerch #tableread #fictionpodcast

Had a great time recording G.Y.M. live for @tablereadpodcastla at @podcastmovement / @sxsw @heykensington (Riley, Inside Out 2) brings the performance and the comedy in this award-winning script. G.Y.M. by @dani_hanks Hanks — live on TABLE READ next week. TABLE READ. Hollywood’s best, by Hollywood’s best.

Someone walked up to me after the show and said they forgot they were listening. That’s the whole job. 🎙️ We recorded our SXSW + Podcast Movement performance in spatial audio with @nomonosound , the only tech I’ve touched in 25 years that doesn’t get in the way. No fighting it. No babysitting it. It just works. In this industry, that’s witchcraft. Shoutout to @rubbidubb , and Owen from Nomono who were in the room with us at Skybox on 6th. The best tools in the world are useless without people who care as much as you do. Here’s what spatial audio actually does: An actor’s voice moves across the room. The scene shifts around you. It stops sounding like content… and starts feeling like memory. Most of the room had never experienced anything like it. 25 years. Hundreds of scripts. 40 million downloads. Still comes down to one question: Did they forget they were listening? If you’re asking how to grow your numbers, you’re asking the wrong question. Ask that one. The numbers follow. 🎧 G.Y.M. is live on Table Read next week. Step inside it. — The cast that brought it 🔥 @HeatherMannFoster · @AllisonDunbar · @YasAlBustami · @HeyKensington · @Shaan_Sharma · Joe Nemmers · @aJacobAWare · @BrianVillalobos · @OfficialAmyBailey · @scottmhervey Written by @dani_hanks Production team: @therealjacklevy @markbaby63 @shaan_sharma @domjeamou @tablereadpodcastla #TableRead #SpatialAudio #Nomono #SXSW #PodcastMovement #AudioFiction #Storytelling