Cuelora TDP
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Cuelora Portal helps arts organizations run calls, review applicants and submissions, make decisions, and keep every season’s record in one place.
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Two theatre workflows, one Cuelora direction
Start with casting. Add captioning when your venue is ready.
TDP is available now for the submittal and casting process. Cuelora Captioning is coming soon for Mac & PC, carrying the same theatre-first approach into live performance access.
Cuelora Captioning
For venues ready to support audiences with live captions, shared displays, LED signs, and showtime tools without stacking more disconnected systems.
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Cuelora Captioning - coming soon for Mac & PC
When the show is live, captions should be simple for staff and clear for audiences.
Cuelora is a live venue communications and accessibility system — not just a caption tool. It lifts work off your house manager and front-of-house team by centralizing scripted content delivery across patron phones, shared displays, and LED signs from a single in-house service.
Import your script, and Cuelora auto-generates cues with speaker names, dialogue, stage directions, and multilingual translations. At showtime, an operator advances captions in sync with the performance — or lets Script Follow auto-advance by listening to the actors.
Authorized staff manage the whole system through a browser from approved devices. Everything runs on your local network with no internet required at showtime, and usage data stays inside your building — ready for grants, board reports, and ADA compliance when you need it.
$0
Per Performance
No App
Just a Browser
3-in-1
Caption Modes
$0
Recurring Fees
Three Caption Modes. One Platform.
Deliver live captions any way your audience and venue need them.
Patron Phones & Tablets
Closed captioning on each audience member's own device. No app download — just scan a QR code or type a short URL. Patrons choose their preferred language and adjust font size from their screen.
Shared Display
Open captioning on a smart TV or monitor visible to the whole house. Connect any screen with a web browser to your local network and it becomes a caption display — no special hardware needed.
LED Surtitles
Scrolling LED surtitle output via HDMI display or direct serial/USB connection. Professional surtitle delivery for opera, multilingual productions, and larger venues — driven from the same system.
Why Cuelora
Why Theaters Choose Cuelora
Professional captioning without the overhead that comes with most systems.
No App Required
Patrons connect through any web browser. No app store, no account creation, no friction at showtime. Works on any phone, tablet, or browser-equipped device.
No Internet at Showtime
Runs entirely on your local Wi-Fi network. No cloud dependency, no latency issues, no data leaving your building. Translations happen once at import — the show itself is fully offline.
No Hardware Fleet
No caption receivers to buy, store, charge, or replace. Patrons use the phones they already carry. Your team runs the system from a standard laptop and wireless router.
Perpetual License
Pay once and own it outright. No subscription, no recurring platform fee, no vendor lock-in. Run Cuelora at every performance, on your terms, forever.
Multilingual Captions
Import your script and Cuelora auto-translates into Spanish, French, and more. Patrons pick their language from their own device, mid-show if they want.
Script Follow Auto-Advance
Cuelora listens to live speech and auto-advances captions in real time. Reduces operator workload during fast-paced scenes while keeping full manual control available.
Accessibility Reporting Built In
Track caption usage by show, season, and custom fiscal year — then export clean CSVs for grant applications, ADA compliance records, and board reports. A built-in feature, not an afterthought.
Reduces Staff Workload
Cuelora cuts the manual work of getting captions and scripted content where it needs to go during a live performance. One central service serves phones, shared displays, and LED signs — fewer moving parts for your house manager and FOH team.
Central In-House Service
Run Cuelora from an always-on in-house machine or server. Authorized staff log in through a browser from approved devices — no special control app on every endpoint, no cloud dependency, no vendor phoning home.
Full Rehearsal Mode
Run your lines with a full cast of mapped rehearsal voices. Pick your character and Cuelora reads every other role in distinct voices, listening for your cue lines and responding in real time — like a full cast rehearsing with you, on your own schedule. Local voice options run on your machine; optional ElevenLabs voices are BYOK and generate cached rehearsal audio only when you choose them during setup/prebuild.
Script Read-Aloud
A built-in text-to-speech script reader lets you hear the whole show in multiple voices — useful for blocking review, accessibility, table reads, and actors preparing on the go. Local voices generate on your machine; optional ElevenLabs BYOK voices can be used for rehearsal/prebuild audio under your own ElevenLabs account.
Built for Venues That Need Accessibility Without Complexity
Cuelora is designed for organizations that need professional captioning without a heavy technical footprint or large capital equipment budget — including nonprofits and publicly funded theaters that have to report accessibility program usage for grants, ADA compliance, and board reporting.
Regional Theaters
Community Theaters
Touring Companies
Schools & Universities
Arts Centers
Opera & Surtitles
Black Box Venues
Churches & Houses of Worship
Pop-Up & Temporary Productions
Built from Real Theater Experience
Cuelora was shaped by firsthand experience supporting live performance, with accessibility, reliability, and practical day-to-day operation at the center of its design.
Accessibility First
Captioning is not treated like an afterthought. Cuelora exists to help theaters offer accessible performances in a way that is practical, dependable, and respectful of the audience.
Real Experience
This product comes from real world experience. It was shaped by the realities of live performance, technical operations, IT infrastructure, and the daily work of keeping a theater running.
Built to Stay in Your Control
Cuelora works on your local network, so your show does not depend on the cloud or an outside internet connection. It is designed to keep working when reliability matters most.
Simple, Transparent Pricing
Choose the plan that fits your production needs today. Start with Core for manual live captioning, or move to Pro for automation, multilingual delivery, and expanded output options.
Professional Captioning Without the Overhead
Coming Soon
Pricing details will be announced shortly
- Manual cue control for live performances
- Patron captions on phones and tablets
- Open captioning on a shared display
- QR code audience access
- Local Wi-Fi — no internet during shows
- Multi-show season management
- Custom venue branding
- Windows and macOS installers
- One year of updates included
Best for small venues, schools, black box theaters, churches.
Most Popular
Full Automation for Demanding Productions
Coming Soon
Pricing details will be announced shortly
- Everything in Core, plus:
- Script auto-import — PDF, Word, Fountain
- Multilingual captions at import
- Patron language selection on device
- Script read-aloud with mapped and cached voices
- Script Follow — voice auto-advance
- Full Rehearsal Mode — run your lines with mapped rehearsal voices
- Stage directions and sound cue display
- LED surtitle output (HDMI or serial)
- Local accessibility usage dashboard
- CSV exports for grants, ADA & board reports
- Custom fiscal-year reporting
- Reduced operator workload
Best for regional theaters, touring companies, opera, multilingual productions.
Both licenses are perpetual. No subscription. No per-performance fees.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers to the questions theaters ask most.
Does Cuelora require patrons to download an app?
No. Audience members simply open any web browser on their phone or tablet and connect to the local network. There is no app store download, no account creation, and no setup required for patrons.
What types of captioning does Cuelora support?
Cuelora supports every major delivery mode from a single system: personal captions on patron phones and tablets (closed captioning), captions on a shared display visible to the whole house (open captioning), and scrolling LED surtitle output via HDMI or serial. Most competing systems only support one mode.
Does Cuelora need internet during performances?
No. Cuelora’s show delivery runs on your venue’s local Wi-Fi network. No internet connection is needed during a performance, and caption delivery data stays in your building. Script translation and optional BYOK voice generation are setup/prebuild steps before showtime.
How much does Cuelora cost?
Cuelora Core is $895 and Cuelora Pro is $3,500. Both are one-time purchases with perpetual licenses. There is no subscription and no per-performance fee.
How is Cuelora different from GalaPro or traditional captioning systems?
GalaPro requires a patron app download and an ongoing software fee. Traditional systems rely on dedicated receiver hardware that must be purchased, charged, and managed. Cuelora requires none of these — patrons connect via any browser, no hardware fleet is needed, and you pay once for a perpetual license with no subscription.
Can actors use Cuelora to run lines on their own?
Yes. Cuelora Pro includes a Full Rehearsal Mode that turns the script into an interactive run-through for a single actor. Choose your character and Cuelora reads every other role in mapped text-to-speech voices, listens for your cue lines through the microphone, and responds in real time — like having the whole cast rehearse with you. There is also a straight script read-aloud mode for table reads, blocking review, accessibility, or prep on the go. Local voice options run on your machine; optional ElevenLabs voices are BYOK and generate cached rehearsal audio only when an admin chooses them during setup/prebuild.
Can Cuelora help us report accessibility usage for grants and ADA compliance?
Yes. Cuelora Pro includes a built-in local reporting dashboard that tracks caption usage by show, season, and custom fiscal year. You can export clean CSVs to hand to development, finance, or executive teams for grant applications, ADA compliance records, and board reports. All reporting stays on your local system — nothing is sent to us or to the cloud. Nonprofits and publicly funded venues get the usage data they need as a built-in feature, not an afterthought.
What do I need to run Cuelora?
Each show runs from one laptop on your local Wi-Fi. Patron phones, tablets, shared displays, and LED signs all connect to it through a browser — no app or extra software needed. The operator can control captions from the same laptop or from a separate device over the network.
If your venue has multiple stages running shows at the same time, each one needs its own laptop with its own license.
Can Cuelora be installed permanently on a house server instead of a laptop?
Yes. If you don't need the laptop's mobility and you're making Cuelora a fixed part of your theatre's infrastructure, you can run it on a local server on your private house network. The typical venue has a private LAN for staff and production plus an isolated guest Wi-Fi for patrons that can't see the LAN. To bridge the two without exposing Cuelora to the open internet, install Cuelora on a server on the private LAN on the default port 5000, assign a secondary public (outside) IP on your firewall and create a NAT rule mapping it to the server's private IP on port 5000, then add a firewall rule on that NAT so inbound traffic is only allowed from your venue's own ISP outside IP address — the same public IP your guest Wi-Fi egresses through. Patrons on the guest Wi-Fi reach Cuelora via the public NAT address, but nobody on the open internet can. The server stays private, patrons get captions on the guest network, and you don't have to route between VLANs. This is an advanced network configuration — have your IT team or network admin set it up.