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Cinema for your ears. Performed by Hollywood’s best.Step inside the studio where Hollywood’s top actors bring award-winning screenplays to life... complete with a full cinematic score, immersive sound design, and the energy of a live performance.Each episode is a front-row seat to a one-of-a-kind production: 20-plus working actors, world-class scripts from acclaimed writers, and film-quality sound crafted by Emmy-winning producers. It’s not just a podcast... it’s a movie you hear.Recent guests include Mark Hamill, Rosario Dawson, Ty Burrell, Joe Mantegna, Fred Armisen, and more. Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell Manifest Media.#1 Fiction Podcast | 2025 Webby, Shorty, and Signal Winner | Cinema for your ears. 👉 TableReadPodcast.com

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ROOMS OF EXPERIENCE - Act 3
JAN 27, 2026
ROOMS OF EXPERIENCE - Act 3
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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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ROOMS OF EXPERIENCE - Act 2
JAN 20, 2026
ROOMS OF EXPERIENCE - Act 2
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. _______________________________ 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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ROOMS OF EXPERIENCE - Act 1
JAN 13, 2026
ROOMS OF EXPERIENCE - Act 1
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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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ROOMS OF EXPERIENCE - Trailer
JAN 13, 2026
ROOMS OF EXPERIENCE - Trailer
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. __________________________ 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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