Why I built blablabla

There's a face people make when you ask them to run lines with you. Not annoyance, exactly. More like... resignation. They love you. They'll do it. But you both know it's the fourth time this week and the scene hasn't changed.

My girlfriend has read the same monologue setup probably fifty times. Friends have stopped picking up. And I get it - I've been on the other side too. When someone asks me to help run a scene, I say yes. Always. But somewhere around the third pass, I'm counting the lines until we're done.

Every actor I know has this problem. You need someone to read the other parts. Someone patient, available at weird hours, willing to do it again. And again.

Nobody wants to be that person. And nobody wants to keep asking.

For a long time I just accepted it. You're an actor, you need a scene partner, you bother people. But at some point I stopped accepting it and started building.

blablabla is a rehearsal partner on your phone. You drop in your scene, pick your character, and it reads the other parts. It waits during your lines. That's it.

The one rule I built everything around: never cut the actor off.

Today it's on the App Store.

Download blablabla