TABLE READ: My Lady’s Song

Written by Dan Lauria

New York. Late-night Eighth Avenue. Strip clubs, limos, politicians, porn stars, and ghosts of the old neighborhood.

My Lady’s Song drops you straight into the smoky, blood-soaked underbelly of a city that doesn’t forgive and never forgets.

Sal “The Barber” Marino is an aging ex-soldier of the streets — a limo driver who once did twelve years without talking. Now he drives high-end clients and keeps his head down. But when a powerful senator, a pair of porn stars, and a blackmail tape collide during sensitive union negotiations, Sal is pulled back into a world he thought he left behind.

This is not a nostalgia piece.

This is loyalty versus survival.

Old code versus new money.

Family versus leverage.

Set against a soundtrack style of Billie Holiday, Etta James, Dinah Washington, and Bessie Smith, My Lady’s Song moves like Goodfellas at midnight and feels like The Sopranos when the jokes stop being funny.

What starts as a simple drive to Los Angeles turns into a reckoning — with betrayal, with memory, and with the cost of keeping your mouth shut.

Nobody in podcasting is bringing this level of writing, performance, and cinematic scope.

This is prestige drama.

Performed. Not narrated.

Hollywood caliber. Start to finish.

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🎭 FULL CAST

SAL – Ronnie Marmo

An ex-con soldier turned limo driver. Hardened. Loyal. Dangerous when pushed.

CHARLIE – Sam McMurray

La Salle Limo manager. Old-school operator with a sharp tongue.

SENATOR BAXTER / THE JOHN – Joe Mantegna

Powerful, polished, and utterly ruthless. Politics meets leverage.

VINCENT – Dan Lauria

Union boss. Businessman. Architect of control.

HARA – Gia Mantegna

Young, defiant, smarter than everyone assumes.

LOTTA – Ally Dunbar

Savvy operator. Knows how to play both sides of the camera.

NARRATOR – Vanessa Richardson

A true-crime icon brings gravitas and noir elegance to the storytelling spine.

DONNA – Janelle Marmo

CARMELA – Patty McCormack

PORN DIRECTOR – Robert Wuhl

LEO – Zeke Alton

ANTHONY – Alec Leonard

With additional performances from:

Janelle Marmo

Ally Dunbar

Gia Mantegna

Zeke Alton

Alec Leonard

This cast could walk onto a soundstage tomorrow and shoot this for theatrical release. It’s that level.

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Directed by Mark Knell & Jack Levy

Executive Produced by Shaan Sharma, Jack Levy, and Mark Knell

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The cage breaks open. Caravaggio breaks with it.

Chained in a torture chamber beneath the fortress, Caravaggio faces the Grand Master one last time. Faith against flesh. Obedience against desire. What follows is an escape down a fortress wall, a boat in the dark, and a fugitive painter running not toward freedom but toward the only thing he has left.

Act Three is the fall. Brutal. Beautiful. Inevitable.

Sicily. Caravaggio paints like a man on fire. In Syracuse, a burial. In Messina, a nativity. Each canvas more desperate than the last. Each one a confession he cannot say out loud. The genius is still there. The man holding the brush is disappearing.

Back in Rome, the news arrives. Lena. The woman whose face launched his greatest work. Gone. Caravaggio learns what it costs to leave someone behind in a city that devours the unprotected.

Cardinal Del Monte makes his final play. A pardon. A real one. Signed by the Pope himself. But the pardon needs a delivery and Caravaggio needs to stay alive long enough to receive it.

Naples. A prison cell. Malaria. Chains. The Grand Master finds him one last time. Two men who could never say what they meant finally say it. It is too late for both of them.

Then a swamp. Bandits. A boiling sun. A beach. A boy. Two nuns. And the Tyrrhenian coast, where the greatest painter of his generation reaches for the light one final time.

The pardon arrives. The man does not.

Act Three is reckoning. Loss. Grace. The moment the fuse runs out.

What you see in the art, you will find in the artist. What you see in the artist, you will find in the man.

Cast

Dennis Kleinman · Narrator

Craig Parker · Caravaggio

Dan Lauria · Cardinal Del Monte

Bruce Davison · Alof de Wignacourt

Shaan Sharma · Stefano della Croce

Catherine Lidstone · Lena

Sarah Elmaleh · Maria

Brendan Bradley · Annibale Carracci

Noah James · Ranuccio Tomassoni

Josh Sterling · Ottavio Tomassoni

Zeke Alton · Giovan Tomassoni

Nick Monteleone · Mancini

Matt Curtin · Toppa

Bjorn Johnson · Pope Paul V

Ray Abruzzo · Pope Clement VIII

Written by Richard Vetere

Executive Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell

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Malta. A fortress carved from rock, surrounded by sea, ruled by warrior monks who pray at dawn and kill by noon.

Caravaggio arrives to paint a portrait. He stays because he has no choice. The Grand Master offers sanctuary, admiration, and something neither man is prepared to name. The Captain at Arms offers suspicion, jealousy, and a locked door every night.

Act Two is the cage. Beautiful. Suffocating. Holy.

Caravaggio paints the Grand Master's portrait and captures more than armor and scars. He captures a man's loneliness. The Knights throw a feast in his honor. He dances on tables. He is knighted with a gold sword. He is watched from every window.

Back in Rome, Cardinal Del Monte fights for a papal pardon while the Tomassoni brothers hire bounty hunters. The Pope dies. A new Pope rises. The Church still cannot decide what Caravaggio is worth.

On the beach, the Turks attack. Knights are nailed to crosses and set on fire, floated into the harbor at dawn. Caravaggio picks up a sword for the first time. He gives water to a dying boy. The boy is killed in front of him.

Flashbacks pull him back to Rome. To Lena. To the night Ranuccio came for him with a blade. To the moment that changed everything.

He paints The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist on a chapel wall and signs his name in the blood flowing from the saint's neck. The only painting he ever signed.

Then he paints a Cupid so grotesque it seals his fate.

Act Two is devotion. Desire. Betrayal. The moment a man realizes that the sanctuary he was promised is just a prison with better art on the walls.

The fuse is burning.

Cast

Dennis Kleinman · Narrator

Craig Parker · Caravaggio

Dan Lauria · Cardinal Del Monte

Bruce Davison · Alof de Wignacourt

Shaan Sharma · Stefano della Croce

Catherine Lidstone · Lena

Sarah Elmaleh · Maria

Brendan Bradley · Annibale Carracci

Noah James · Ranuccio Tomassoni

Josh Sterling · Ottavio Tomassoni

Zeke Alton · Giovan Tomassoni

Nick Monteleone · Mancini

Matt Curtin · Toppa

Bjorn Johnson · Pope Paul V

Ray Abruzzo · Pope Clement VIII

Written by

Richard Vetere

Executive Produced by

Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell

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Caravaggio, the brilliant outlaw painter whose genius made him famous and whose violence made him a fugitive.

Rome, 1610. The city is loud, corrupt, holy, and dangerous. Caravaggio thrives in it.

Act One drops you straight into the night everything breaks. Inside a dark Roman chapel, Caravaggio confronts his greatest rival and exposes a truth the Church is not ready to control. God does not live in perfection. God lives in flesh, shadow, and brutal light.

Outside the church, Rome answers back. Wine turns into provocation. Desire turns into rivalry. Old grudges sharpen. A debt comes due. What begins as swagger spirals into violence, and by dawn Caravaggio’s life in Rome is over.

Wanted. Hunted. Unforgivable.

A carriage slips through the gates. A boat cuts across black water. Behind him, the city that crowned him now wants him dead. Ahead lies Malta, a fortified island ruled by warrior monks, where faith is enforced with steel and survival demands obedience.

Act One is ignition. Art as rebellion. Faith as power. Genius as liability.

This is where the fuse gets lit.

Cast

Dennis Kleinman · Narrator

Craig Parker · Caravaggio

Dan Lauria · Cardinal Del Monte

Bruce Davison · Alof de Wignacourt

Shaan Sharma · Stefano della Croce

Catherine Lidstone · Lena

Sarah Elmaleh · Maria

Brendan Bradley · Annibale Carracci

Noah James · Ranuccio Tomassoni

Josh Sterling · Ottavio Tomassoni

Zeke Alton · Giovan Tomassoni

Nick Monteleone · Mancini

Matt Curtin · Toppa

Bjorn Johnson · Pope Paul V

Ray Abruzzo · Pope Clement VIII

Written by

Richard Vetere

Executive Produced by

Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell

Table Read is a Manifest Media production.

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Rome. 1610. A painter who sees God in the faces of prostitutes and killers is on the run for murder.

His name is Caravaggio. He drinks too much. He loves recklessly. Men, women, it doesn't matter. He picks fights with swordsmen and screams at the heavens in candlelit chapels. He paints the way other men pray, except his prayers are in defiance. And the Catholic Church can't decide whether to pardon him or let the bounty hunters finish the job.

This screenplay by Richard Vetere, a Pulitzer nominee and Golden Palm winner whose work has been produced by Francis Ford Coppola, follows Caravaggio from the brothels of Rome to a besieged fortress on Malta where a scarred Grand Master offers him sanctuary and something that looks a lot like love. But sanctuary has a price. And Caravaggio has never paid what he owes without bleeding for it.

There are popes making deals in candlelight. Brothers hunting him across the Mediterranean for killing their own. A muse he left behind in Rome who can't wait much longer. A rival painter who despises his work and can't stop staring at it. Knights nailed to crosses and set on fire floating into the harbor at dawn. A prison cell carved into rock like a grave. And an escape across open sea in a fishing boat guided by a boy too afraid to speak.

This is not a quiet period piece. This is Game of Thrones in Renaissance Italy with paintbrushes and rapiers.

Craig Parker, who played Haldir in Lord of the Rings, plays Caravaggio. Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Bruce Davison plays the Grand Master. Dan Lauria, America's dad from The Wonder Years, plays the Cardinal pulling every string in Rome. Ray Abruzzo, Little Carmine from The Sopranos, plays the Pope. The cast includes Broadway veterans, stars of The Chosen, the voices behind the biggest video games on the planet, and a former Navy test pilot born in Italy playing an Italian swordsman.

Fourteen actors. One genius who painted like God was guiding his hand and lived like the devil was chasing him. Turns out both were true.

This is Caravaggio. This is Table Read. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

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Rooms of Experience, Act 3

By Steffany Sommers

Starring Patty McCormack as Ada Wells

and Dan Lauria as DA Harvey Davis

Everything converges.

The courtroom becomes the center of gravity.

Every choice Dana made now has a witness.

Alexis puts Ada on the stand.

And for the first time, the story is told without protection.

No strategy.

No framing.

Just truth.

Ada speaks about the years.

The fear.

The promises she made when no one else would.

About loving someone the world was never built for.

The room changes.

Disability rights advocates clash with prosecutors.

Expert testimony collides with lived experience.

The line between justice and cruelty grows thinner by the minute.

Harvey pushes for a conviction.

The system demands closure.

The media waits for a headline.

Dana is forced to decide who she is when the rules stop helping.

Not as a prosecutor.

As a human being.

The verdict comes down.

And nothing about it feels simple.

In the end, there is no victory.

Only consequence.

Only reckoning.

Act Three asks the final question.

What do we owe each other

when love is the only thing left?

Starring Academy Award nominee Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed) as Ada Wells

with Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) as DA Harvey Davis

Craig Parker (The Lord of the Rings) as Detective Curtis

Nicholas Gonzalez (The Good Doctor) as Carter

Nora Zehetner (Heroes, Everwood) as Rebecca

Alyshia Ochse as Dana Jeffries

Candice Coke as Alexis Martinez

Eileen Grubba as Gina Gordon

Alain Uy as Ethan

and narrated by Sarah Elmaleh

Table Read is executive produced by Jack Levy, Mark Knell, and Sean Sharma.

A Manifest Media production.

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Rooms of Experience, Act 2

By Steffany Sommers

Starring Patty McCormack as Ada Wells

and Dan Lauria as DA Harvey Davis

The cracks start to spread.

Dana tries to outrun the case. Literally.

But every answer leads to worse questions.

She digs into Teddy’s past.

Talks to doctors.

Families.

People who trusted institutions and paid for it.

What she finds isn’t comforting.

Facilities where the vulnerable disappear.

Bruises explained away.

Medication used as control.

Silence treated like consent.

Ada’s fear wasn’t paranoia.

It was experience.

Meanwhile, the pressure builds.

Disability rights groups mobilize.

The media sharpens its narrative.

And DA Harvey Davis makes it clear.

This case is about optics, not nuance.

“No deal,” he reminds her.

Win at all costs.

Alexis keeps pushing for mercy.

Gina watches Ada waste away.

Funeral grief turns into physical collapse.

The woman who survived everything may not survive this.

Dana stands in the middle.

Her career on one side.

Her conscience on the other.

She starts to see herself in Alexis.

In Ada.

In the choices women make just to survive systems designed without them.

By the end of Act Two, Dana knows.

This trial isn’t about guilt.

It’s about who she becomes when the whole world is watching.

And there’s no clean way out.

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Starring Academy Award nominee Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed) as Ada Wells

with Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) as DA Harvey Davis

Craig Parker (The Lord of the Rings) as Detective Curtis

Nicholas Gonzalez (The Good Doctor) as Carter

Nora Zehetner (Heroes, Everwood) as Rebecca

Alyshia Ochse as Dana Jeffries

Candice Coke as Alexis Martinez

Eileen Grubba as Gina Gordon

Alain Uy as Ethan

and narrated by Sarah Elmaleh

Table Read is executive produced by Jack Levy, Mark Knell, and Sean Sharma. A Manifest Media production.

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Rooms of Experience, Act 1

By Steffany Sommers

Starring Patty McCormack as Ada Wells

and Dan Lauria as DA Harvey Davis

The call comes in at night.

An elderly woman.

A dead son.

A tank of helium left in plain sight.

Ada Wells doesn’t deny it.

She wanted his last day to be peaceful.

Enter Dana Jeffries, razor-sharp, undefeated, and hungry to prove herself.

Her boss, Harvey Davis, assigns the case for one reason: optics.

Defense attorney Alexis Martinez pushes back hard.

Detective Curtis starts questioning his own conclusions.

Gina Gordon protects Ada like family.

Carter becomes another pressure point inside the machine.

Rebecca is caught in the ripple effect.

Then Alexis shows Dana the home movies.

The real story.

The years no one saw.

The cost no one counted.

By the end of Act One, Dana walks out of Ada’s house shaken.

No longer sure the law and justice are the same thing.

Starring Academy Award nominee Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed) as Ada Wells

with Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) as DA Harvey Davis

Craig Parker (The Lord of the Rings) as Detective Curtis

Nicholas Gonzalez (The Good Doctor) as Carter

Nora Zehetner (Heroes, Everwood) as Rebecca

Alyshia Ochse as Dana Jeffries

Candice Coke as Alexis Martinez

Eileen Grubba as Gina Gordon

Alain Uy as Ethan

and narrated by Sarah Elmaleh

Table Read is executive produced by Jack Levy, Mark Knell, and Sean Sharma. A Manifest Media production.

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Rooms of Experience

By Steffany Sommers

What if the most unforgivable crime came from the purest love?

Ada Wells is eighty-nine.

Her son, Teddy, is autistic.

She has spent sixty years protecting him from a world that never learned how to love him back.

Then one night, she makes a choice that shatters everything.

Now the system wants a conviction.

The media wants a monster.

And rising prosecutor Dana Jeffries is handed the most politically explosive case of her career.

Defense attorney Alexis Martinez knows this isn’t about murder.

It’s about a mother who outlived her child.

About institutions that failed.

About love pushed past the breaking point.

Rooms of Experience is a devastating courtroom drama about motherhood, morality, and the brutal cost of survival.

This isn’t about guilt.

It’s about understanding.

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Starring Academy Award nominee Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed) as Ada Wells

with Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) as DA Harvey Davis

Craig Parker (The Lord of the Rings) as Detective Curtis

Nicholas Gonzalez (The Good Doctor) as Carter

Nora Zehetner (Heroes, Everwood) as Rebecca

Alyshia Ochse as Dana Jeffries

Candice Coke as Alexis Martinez

Eileen Grubba as Gina Gordon

Alain Uy as Ethan

and narrated by Sarah Elmaleh

Table Read is executive produced by Jack Levy, Mark Knell, and Shaan Sharma. A Manifest Media production.

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The clock runs out.

The curtain comes up.

With opening night looming, the magic begins to fail. Bodies ache. Secrets surface. And the line between who Natalie and Ava were… and who they’ve become… finally disappears.

Natalie must confront what she’s been chasing her entire life — and what it cost her to get there.

Ava must decide whether stepping into the spotlight is worth stepping away from who she is.

The Sugar Plum Fairy is no longer just a role.

It’s a reckoning.

As rivalries peak and loyalties collide, the question is no longer who deserves the part — but who’s willing to let it go. And whether the universe will allow either girl to walk away unchanged.

Act Three is where the story lands.

Where ambition meets consequence.

Where magic demands payment.

Because sometimes you get exactly what you wished for.

And sometimes the bravest thing you can do…

is give it back.

It’s still funny.

It’s still sharp.

But now it’s honest.

Written by award-winning writer Jenna St. John.

Starring:

Kensington Tallman as Natalie Primavera

Logan Laurel as Ava Ross

Konstantin Lavysh as Mr. Constantine

Carson Bolde as Grayson Garcia

Sasha Knight as Trevor

Rita Dos Santos as Kenzie

Samantha A. Smith as Jasmine Kearn

Eva Binder as Zoe Dennings

Adele Abinante as Bean Ross

Avery Clyde as Mrs. Primavera

Katherine Brunk as Ms. Ross

Brandon Potter as Mr. Primavera

Sarah Elmaleh as Miss Lana

Miki Yamashita as Miss Miyako

Paula Tiso as Narrator

Only on Table Read.

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