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Want to know my take on interpreting monologues ?
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Want to know my take on interpreting monologues ?
Contact me.
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TINA from my brand new play A Very Modern Marriage.
comic, F, teen. 1 Minute A special SNEAK PREVIEW monologue of a work in progress: Tina confronts her husband's lover... Chris. This play has not been produced yet - it will receive a reading at The Last Frontier Theatre Conference on May 22nd, 2013. |
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PERFECT JIMMY from my new play What the Well Dressed Girl is Wearing.
comic, F, teen. 1 Minute Sandra tells her best friend exactly how she feels about Jimmy... the guy her friend is dating. 
This play is available from YouthPlays.com.
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DOING THE MATH seriocomic, F, teenage. 5 minutes or 2 Minute version. A freakily intelligent girl - borderline Asperger's Syndrome - discovers her father may not be the man she thought in this five minute monologue. This contemporary monologue is actually a short one woman play in its own right. If you need a two minute audition monologue, try looking at this one from the line "Relax - I'm not some idiot savant... through to "The numbers add up - but the math is wrong." Read more about the play - First Place winner in the 2012 Monoslam Competition in Los Angeles! 
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MY SISTER THE GRAPEFRUIT HOMECOMING MOM'S STUFF This piece contains moderate language. Three contemporary monologues from the award winning TRASH dramatic, F, 20's-30's. 1 minute/2 minutes/2 minutes Two estranged sisters clash when they attempt to recover their mother's dying message - a letter that has been thrown out with the trash and now resides in a municipal dump. This play won the 2011/2012 Joining Sword and Pen competition and was an official selection for the Last Frontier Theatre Conference and a semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Conference. |
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SHE'LL GROW ON YOU from Past Curfew SHE'LL GROW ON YOU Extended Version dramatic, F, 30's. 1 minute / 2 minutes A monologue from the AOPW Fellowship winning play PAST CURFEW. Sarah, half drunk, resentful of her teenage daughter, drags out this story as a weapon in their ongoing conflict. 
You can also purchase the entire play from NEXT STAGE PRESS.JUST ADDED - an extended version that adds some lines of Sarah's from elsewhere in the play to make a longer monologue. |
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KIRSTIE from Past Curfew dramatic, F, 12-17. 1 minute A monologue from the AOPW Fellowship winning play PAST CURFEW. Kirstie realizes her mother's favorite story - about a tiger trying to put out a fire - makes no sense.
You can also purchase the entire play from NEXT STAGE PRESS.The monologue is also available in The Theatre Audition Book 2. 
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IN HOT WATER from my most produced play The Four Senses of Love
comic, F, 20's. 3 minutes Melita - a woman born without the sense of taste - talks to her support group for the sensory-deprived. Looking for an audition piece that shows broad, physical humor but still need to stay sexy? I could see Chelsea Handler rockin' this one. |
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SVETLANA from the award winning A Gulag Mouse
dramatic, F, Any adult age. 1 minute. Svetlana, a russian prisoner in a Siberian gulag is talking to a young woman (Anastasia) who has returned from what Svetlana believes to be a sexual encounter with a guard - only because it was that or starve. Need a monologue with a Russian accent for your next audition? Give it a shot! 
You can also purchase the entire play from NEXT STAGE PRESS. |
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DOMINATRIX from Circus Schism
dramatic, F, 30's-40's. 2 minutes. A tired Domme complains about her day, her feet, men and power-play. This contemporary monologue is also available in 221 Monologues for Women - edited by Irene Ziegler and John Capecci. This piece contains strong language. 
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THE TRAPEZE ARTIST
from Circus Schism dramatic, F, 20's. 2 minutes. A gymnast/trapeze artist talks about her coming of age, and the realization of her womanhood. In the original, she has a strong Italian accent - and the cadence of this piece does lend itself to a character using English as a second language. This piece contains moderately strong language. |
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PEACE comedic, F, 60's-70's. 3 minutes. An original contemporary monologue from The Coop Theater Workshop. An older Southern Woman confronts her husband about his philandering, in spite of the fact that he's already in his grave. Good character humor. The photo is Gail Mangham performing the monologue at the 2012 The Artist's Path production. |
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THE FINE PRINT from
The Fine Print U, ageless. 2 mins. A monologue from my short play "The Fine Print", Audience Favorite Award winner at The New Plays Festival and Competition, Los Angeles, 2009, available from Original Works Online. The Devil tempts an Electrical Systems Designer with the specs for a new weapons system. 
You can also purchase the entire play from Original Works Online. |
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THE CAPTAIN COLEMAN FINALE from Thicker than Water dramatic, F, 20's. 2 minutes A contemporary monologue from THICKER THAN WATER. Sally is talking to her live-in boyfriend on the night he has walked in the door with unexplained blood splashed on his shoes. Sally holds up as best she can, but eventually loses it - and in this monologue, she reveals the root of her phobia about blood. THICKER THAN WATER has been broadcast on NPR as a radio play, and produced in Chicago, Minneapolis and Nova Scotia. It has not yet been published, so contact me directly. |
