ActorRise

What it does

Actors waste 6+ hours reading plays to find one monologue. ActorRise finds the perfect piece in under 20 seconds using AI search across the world's largest database (8,600+ monologues vs competitors' 1,100). Just describe what you need: 'funny piece for woman in 20s about family drama.' or even type in a quote "To be or not to be" ActorRise will find your monologue. Built by a working actor who got tired of wasting time on libraries, old books and tiny databases.. Free tier available.

Find your audition monologue in seconds with AI search. 19,000+ real pieces from plays, films, and TV, sorted by tone, length, and type. Free to start.

Say what you need the way you’d say it out loud. Then run your lines with a partner who never cancels. (19,000+ pieces. plays, film, and tv. these are a few of the plays.) Plain English is enough. Funny piece for drama school, two minutes, male. The AI reads the whole library and hands you pieces that actually fit you, with overdone warnings so you never bring the piece everyone else brought. Your AI scene partner reads every other role, holds the script, and waits for your cue. No scheduling, no favors to repay, no one getting tired on take twelve. You arrive with a piece chosen for you, rehearsed until it sits in your body. The work is done before you open the door. Now go book the room.…from actorrise.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Actor and software engineer here. Built this because I was tired of spending hours reading plays to find one decent audition monologue. Existing platforms like Backstage have ~1,100 pieces and most are overdone. I scraped and cleaned data from 172+ plays to build a database of 8,600+ monologues. The AI search lets…

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