For the actor
Conservatory auditions ask for more than a good scene — voice, text, movement, nerve. The Half is built around that discipline: a place to train it daily, capture it honestly, and share it with the person guiding you.
Structured daily practice
Schedule real training blocks into your day — morning, midday, evening — and work through a daily checklist instead of wondering what to practice. A running streak keeps the habit visible.
Fundamentals, not just line-running
Guided sessions across voice, movement, text, and improv — breath work, Shakespeare scansion and cold-reads, redirect drills, actioning, and grounding work built for the minutes before an audition.
Self-tape practice, done properly
A guided recorder with a countdown, framing help, and easy retakes. Practice one piece on its own, run several variations of the same piece back to back, or rehearse a full mock audition — a one-minute introduction followed by four pieces, exactly like the real thing.
A living notebook
Journals, notes on productions you've watched, reading notes, and every self-tape land in one searchable archive — a record of the work, not just the highlights.
Send it to your coach when it's ready
Any entry in your notebook can go straight to your coach with one tap, with a note if you want to add context.
One student. One coach. One thread of work between them.
For the coach
You shouldn't need a second inbox to keep up with a student's work. The Half sends it to one place, built for watching, reading, and responding.
One review queue
Everything a student sends lands in a single queue, newest first — recordings, journals, annotations, and reading notes, each marked new, viewed, or commented so nothing slips by.
Watch and respond in place
Play a self-tape from half to double speed, skip with the arrow keys, and drop a comment stamped to the exact moment you mean — it becomes a link your student can jump straight to.
Text work, read the way it was written
Journals, production notes, and reading reflections show up exactly as your student wrote them — no exporting, no attachments.
Secure access, nothing new to install
The first submission emails you a private link that signs you in and lets you set a password. After that, it's just an email and a password, from any browser.