Why I created Stageclue.
I wanted an easier way to learn my lines between rehearsals.
I’m an actress, and learning lines takes up a lot of my time.
Before I can explore how to play a scene, I need to know the words well enough to look up from the page, listen, and respond.
Over the years, I tried different apps to help me practise. They were useful, but I kept running into the same difficulty: rehearsing alone didn’t sound like rehearsing with my cast.
Sometimes I recorded the other characters myself. Sometimes I used synthetic voices. Either way, I missed hearing the people I would actually perform with—their voices, their rhythm, the way they gave me my cue.
We kept coming back to rehearsing together.
As a group, we often met to go over our lines because we hadn’t found a good way to learn them separately.
It was easier when we could hear each other. But finding a time that worked for everyone wasn’t always easy. I wanted to be able to do more of that preparation at home.
That’s when I started thinking about an app we could use as a group.
If each actor recorded their own part, we could all practise with the voices we knew. We could hear our scene partners even when our schedules didn’t allow us to be in the same room.
That idea became Stageclue.
What I wanted the app to do.
With Stageclue, actors can record their lines and share them with the cast. When I practise my part, I can hear the other actors speaking theirs.
I also wanted to address another familiar part of rehearsal: changes to the script. A line gets revised, a passage gets cut, and everyone needs to keep up. Stageclue lets us edit the script and share those updates with each other.
Both things came from our own rehearsals: needing to hear each other, and needing to keep up when the script changed.
Why I’m sharing it.
My hope is that Stageclue helps actors spend less time struggling to memorise and arrive at rehearsal with more confidence.
I still want to get together and rehearse—that’s a big part of why I do theatre. I just want to spend less of that time trying to remember what comes next.
After years of trying different apps, I decided to make the one I wanted to use. If you’ve had the same difficulty with learning lines, I hope Stageclue helps you too.
Working on a new script? Read our guide to learning your lines.
