diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9cca123..2b0132d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -25,5 +25,12 @@
     author="Erik Allik",
     author_email="erik.allik@skype.net",
     license="BSD",
-    url="http://github.com/eallik/spinoff/"
+    url="http://github.com/eallik/spinoff/",
+
+    entry_points={
+        'console_scripts': [
+            'spin = spinoff.actor.spin:console',
+        ]
+    },
+
 )
diff --git a/spinoff/actor/__init__.py b/spinoff/actor/__init__.py
index 017102b..9ce6b77 100644
--- a/spinoff/actor/__init__.py
+++ b/spinoff/actor/__init__.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 from .uri import Uri
 from .props import Props
 from .exceptions import Unhandled
+from .spin import spin
 
 
-__all__ = [Actor, Node, Uri, Props, Unhandled]
+__all__ = [Actor, Node, Uri, Props, Unhandled, spin]
diff --git a/spinoff/actor/spin.py b/spinoff/actor/spin.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a2fcf8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spinoff/actor/spin.py
@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+import argparse
+import sys
+
+from gevent.event import Event
+from gevent.hub import LoopExit
+
+from spinoff.actor import Actor, Node
+from spinoff.actor.exceptions import Unhandled
+from spinoff.util.logging import dbg, err
+
+
+_EMPTY = object()
+
+
+class Wrapper(Actor):
+    def __init__(self, actor_factory, spawn_at, keep_running, initial_messages, stop_event):
+        self.actor_factory = actor_factory
+        self.spawn_at = spawn_at
+        self.keep_running = keep_running
+        self.initial_messages = initial_messages
+        self.stop_event = stop_event
+
+    def _do_spawn(self):
+        self.actor = self.watch(self.node.spawn(self.actor_factory, name=self.spawn_at))
+
+    def pre_start(self):
+        self._do_spawn()
+        for msg in self.initial_messages:
+            self.actor << msg
+
+    def receive(self, message):
+        if message == ('terminated', self.actor):
+            _, actor = message
+            if self.keep_running:
+                self.send_later(1.0, '-spawn')
+            else:
+                self.stop()
+        elif message == '-spawn':
+            self._do_spawn()
+        else:
+            raise Unhandled
+
+    def post_stop(self):
+        self.stop_event.set()
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return '#wrapper#'
+
+
+def spin(actor_cls, name=None, init_params={}, node_id=None, initial_messages=[], keep_running=False, enable_relay=False, wrapper_cls=Wrapper):
+    node = Node(nid=node_id, enable_remoting=True if node_id else False, enable_relay=enable_relay)
+    stop_event = Event()
+    node.spawn(wrapper_cls.using(
+        actor_cls.using(**init_params),
+        spawn_at=name, keep_running=keep_running,
+        initial_messages=initial_messages,
+        stop_event=stop_event
+    ), name='-runner')
+    try:
+        stop_event.wait()
+    except LoopExit as exc:
+        assert exc.message == 'This operation would block forever'
+
+
+def console():
+    class _ImportFailed(Exception):
+        pass
+
+    class _InitError(Exception):
+        pass
+
+    argparser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description="Runs the specified actor",
+        formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter,
+    )
+    argparser.add_argument('actor', metavar='ACTOR',
+                           help="The actor to run")
+    argparser.add_argument('-init', '--init-params', metavar='INIT', default={},
+                           help="Parameters to pass to the actor")
+    argparser.add_argument('-msg', '--initial-message', metavar='MSG', nargs='*', default=[],
+                           help="Messages to send to the actor. Specify multiple times to send multiple messages. These must be valid Python expressions")
+    argparser.add_argument('-keep', '--keep-running', action='store_true',
+                           help="Whether to respawn the actor when it terminates")
+    argparser.add_argument('-name', '--name', metavar='NAME',
+                           help="What to name the actor")
+    argparser.add_argument('-nid', '--node-id', metavar='NODEID',
+                           help="What to name the actor")
+    argparser.add_argument('-relay', '--enable-relay', metavar='RELAY',
+                           help="What to name the actor")
+
+    args = argparser.parse_args()
+
+    try:
+        try:
+            if '.' not in args.actor:
+                raise _ImportFailed
+                sys.exit(1)
+            else:
+                mod_name, cls_name = args.actor.rsplit('.', 1)
+                try:
+                    mod = __import__(mod_name, fromlist=[cls_name])
+                except ImportError:
+                    raise _ImportFailed
+                try:
+                    actor_cls = getattr(mod, cls_name)
+                except AttributeError:
+                    raise _ImportFailed
+        except _ImportFailed:
+            raise _InitError("Failed to import %s" % (args.actor,))
+
+        eval_str = 'dict(%s)' % (args.init_params,)
+        try:
+            init_params = eval(eval_str)
+        except Exception:
+            raise _InitError("Failed to parse value: -init/--init-params")
+        else:
+            dbg("init_params: %r" % (init_params,))
+
+        initial_messages = []
+        for msg_raw in args.initial_message:
+            try:
+                msg = eval(msg_raw)
+            except Exception:
+                quote = '\'' if '"' in msg_raw else '"'
+                raise _InitError("Failde to parse value: -msg %s%s%s" % (quote, msg_raw, quote))
+            else:
+                initial_messages.append(msg)
+    except _InitError as exc:
+        err(exc.args[0])
+        sys.exit(exc.args[1] if len(exc.args) > 1 else 1)
+
+    spin(actor_cls, name=args.name, init_params=init_params, node_id=args.node_id,
+         initial_messages=initial_messages, keep_running=args.keep_running, enable_relay=args.enable_relay)