Self Tape Now Winners
The highest scoring tapes - as voted by ActorBay Members
Character Abby
Winner: Angela Katherine Baker
Abby, a single, 30-something copywriter, is a persistent optimist but her positive attitude is waning after a morning of bad luck threatens to ruin her birthday and her prospects for love.
Written By Amanda Pfeiffer • Scorecards: 374
Character Sylvia
Winner: Donna Gafford
Battling several health issues and the wear and tear of a life on her feet in the service industry, Sylvia is used to hardship and feeling unseen until a moment of kindness from a teenager catches her off guard.
Written By Amanda Pfeiffer • Scorecards: 259
Character Carla
Winner: Ebie Adkins
Carla is used to being the center of attention. She is very certain of herself and convinced that she has been wronged.
Character Lew
Winner: John Goad
Lew is a world-weary kind of huckster who has a lot of ideas and opinions about things, some of which may actually be correct. He's been around. Maybe he used to work in tinseltown. You just never know with Lew.
Written By D.B. Hansen • Scorecards: 317
Character Ian
Winner: Bryan Whorton
Soft-spoken, easygoing, and kind, Ian is a polite and hardworking journalist who usually doesn't mind when his coworker Leslie orders him around. No one would guess that he's not just the mild-mannered, gentle man everyone thinks he is. But underneath his unassuming exterior, Ian has a secret life in the shadows... and it's starting to catch up to him.
Written By Ashlyn Edwards • Scorecards: 411
Character Candace
Winner: Amanda Pfeiffer
Candace can't help it. She's just being honest. She's unapologetically herself and one gets the feeling her son would know that and not be surprised. She's trying to stay strong and not show too much emotion, maybe to a fault. So when she does show a little emotion, it goes a long way.
Written By Shelly Paino • Scorecards: 579
Character Mary
Winner: Rose Hunt-Person
Cunning, cold, calculated, calm, collected.
Written By Dan Sandoval • Scorecards: 432
Character Liz Harvard
Winner: Jessica Packard
Liz is ridiculously smart and organized. She loves simple things; her white marble desk, her house and the perfect dirty chai latte. Thanks to her brother Joel, she has a great sense of humor, despite her desire to keep things under control and maintain the status quo. Joel is her best friend, as well as her business partner, and he always keeps her from taking herself too seriously. She's an idea harnessing machine and excels at taking Joel's hundred and one ideas and turning them in to actionable assets for their company. And lucky for all those involved, she has the patience of a saint.
Written By Kari Fabian • Scorecards: 381
Character Charles Riley Doogan
Winner: Bryan Whorton
Charlie Doogan is a deeply unhinged individual with a warped sense of reality. His erratic behavior and delusional rants reveals a mind consumed by paranoia, violence, and a twisted vision of the world. He is inspired by Charles Manson.
Written By Jason Walter Vaile • Scorecards: 281
Character Mary
Winner: Katy Fulkerson
Mary is a middle-aged single woman attempting to find a partner using online dating sites.
Written By Della Wright • Scorecards: 308
Character Milton Patterson
Winner: Tommy G. Kendrick
Milton loves his daughter but was an alcoholic when she was growing up. She resents him for this and they haven't spoken in years after he cut her out of his life. He didn't approve of her current husband (seeing that he was an alcoholic like he was) and also saw that he was abusive. Not knowing how to help his daughter, he cut her out, hoping she would see the truth. But things have gotten worse. Now that he has kidney disease, he needs his daughter's help, but more importantly, he wants to make amends before it's too late.
Written By Kimberly Soliman • Scorecards: 458
Character Leslie
Winner: Tara Battani
In the fast-paced world of journalism, Leslie is one of the best, and she's worked hard to become so. She's ambitious, sarcastic, opinionated, and bossy, a take-charge personality who gets things done. She's not unlikeable, if you can get past her witty sarcasm and blunt tone, and not unkind, if you don't take her withering burns personally. But underneath it all, her ambition and drive aren't self-serving; she really does want to make the world a better place.
Written By Ashlyn Edwards • Scorecards: 416
Character Mrs. Meyers
Winner: Anita Cordell
Mrs. Meyers is one of those amazing teachers that truly brings out the best in their students. She's encouraging and proud of Janey.
Written By Jaclyn Whitt • Scorecards: 434
Character Denoux Jahque
Winner: Brad Roberts
Relationship author who's socially awkward. Denwa Jahque, pronounced Den WAH Jack - with the J being more of a a soft "zh" sound. He's the only one on the planet who pronounces it right.
Written By Gigi Erneta • Scorecards: 357
Character Librarian
Winner: Kathy Patterson
Librarian cannot pronounce Denoux's name. She is completely absorbed in her book and doesn't notice him. She's friendly but not the sharpest tool in the shed. A government worker that’s been there forever.
Written By Gigi Erneta • Scorecards: 341
Character Helen Beretta
Winner: Katy Fulkerson
Helen is a smart and classy woman who knows her way around a computer. She's a genius hacker who's specialty is software mimicking and upgrading. Her job demands that she plays a type of double spy character often, in order to get the information she needs. While she has to do some dirty tricks to get the job done, she really does have a heart. But work always comes first.
Written By Douglas Smith • Scorecards: 342
Character Julia Marston
Winner: Katelin Stack
Julia is a strong, independent, and pragmatic woman. She’s weathered the rough edges of life and doesn’t easily trust others, particularly people with a troubled past. She is resourceful and self-reliant, often taking charge of situations. While she projects a tough exterior, she also has a deep sense of caution and responsibility, particularly toward the peace of her town. She is protective of her life and those around her, not wanting chaos to return, but her guardedness suggests there is also an underlying emotional depth she keeps hidden.
Written By Renee Michaels • Scorecards: 401
Character Joel Harvard
Winner: John Brownlie
Joel is the ideas guy and by nature spends a lot of time with his head somewhere near the clouds. Part performer, part awkward puppy, he wants to be good with people, but has a knack for sticking his foot in his mouth. His sister Liz is his best friend, as well as his business partner, and he'd be totally lost without her. He's fun loving, mostly carefree, at least that's what he tells himself, and he'd do anything for almost anyone. Shrewd businessman he is not.
Written By Kari Fabian • Scorecards: 508
Character Daniel Winters
Winner: Ulises Larramendi
A hardened former FBI agent, his face etched with years of trauma, his eyes haunted by the grisly cases he's investigated. Beneath his tough exterior, a deep weariness and a quiet, guarded vulnerability reveal the psychological scars left by his relentless pursuit of the darkest minds.
Written By Jason Walter Vaile • Scorecards: 322
Character Trisha Black
Winner: Rose Hunt-Person
Trisha Black is a highly calculated, ruthless, and manipulative individual. As the CEO of a powerful tech conglomerate, she wields control over social media and public narratives, using them as tools to maintain power and crush opposition. She views the truth as malleable and easily shaped to serve her purposes, believing that she can rewrite reality to suit her agenda. Trisha is confident in her dominance, indifferent to moral boundaries, and dismissive of those who stand in her way, seeing them as mere obstacles to eliminate.
Written By Renee Michaels • Scorecards: 337
Character Vick Shackleton
Winner: Doug Harrison
Megachurch Executive pastor with the heart of a used car salesman. Image is everything to him. To God be the glory as long as he gets the credit.
Written By Alan Tregoning • Scorecards: 419
Character Angela
Winner: Jen Brown
Angela Waymyer is the owner of a prestigious advertising agency. She is poised, professional, and can seem intimidating at times. Her tone is measured and firm but carries a distinct undercurrent of fairness and concern. Although her professionalism is unshakeable, it's evident that she cares about her employees.
Written By Renee Michaels • Scorecards: 339
Character Katherine
Winner: Kimberly Gail Williams
Lifelong homemaker, kind, caring, any ethnicity.
Written By Robin Bjerke • Scorecards: 333
Character Reverend Jimmy Boone
Winner: Yanis Kalnins
Rev Jimmy Boone has been there and seen it all in his years as a priest. Nothing phases him, but not to the point of arrogance. He understands that people are seeking answers to complex spiritual questions and has a heart to help those in need of answers. No question is too simple or too silly and he never speaks down to those he counsels.
Written By Alan Tregoning • Scorecards: 420
Character Kate Miller
Winner: Natalie Polisson
Kate is married to Eddie, an astronaut training to be the first man to walk on mars. They have one young daughter in elementary school. She is torn between her support of her husband as he trains to be a part of history and the wear it is taking on their family.
Written By Alan Tregoning • Scorecards: 625
Character Mrs. Ferguson
Winner: Candace Kirkpatrick
Mrs. Ferguson has been teaching at the school almost 30 years and has heard every excuse in the book. She's firm but caring
Written By Gigi Erneta • Scorecards: 460
Character Sheriff Tate
Winner: Tommy G. Kendrick
A weathered, principled sheriff who’s spent his life trying to uphold justice in a town ruled by violence and corruption, where doing the right thing often means facing impossible choices. Despite the constant danger and moral compromises around him, he clings to the belief that one man can still make a difference.
Written By Jason Walter Vaile • Scorecards: 588