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Announcing Monologues for Your Next Audition

We’re delighted to announce a new resource for actors, teachers and student competitors: more than 1,500 monologues drawn from the plays we publish, searchable by duration, age, gender and genre, and free to use for auditions and student competitions. Whether you need a one-minute comic piece for a callback tomorrow or a three-to-five-minute drama for a competition next month, you can find it in seconds and read it right on our website.

Find Your Monologue

Search the way casting thinks

Each link below opens the monologue library already filtered for you.

Monologue Spotlight: four voices to get you started

Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven (book cover)

2 min · Female · Teen · Comedy Annie, from Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven by Reina Hardy

A thirteen-year-old science genius from Strawberry, Kansas introduces herself to the audience. “I’m Annie Jump, and this whole story is about me.”

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About Spontaneous Combustion (book cover)

1 min · Female · Older Adult · Comedy Aunt Emily, from About Spontaneous Combustion by Sherry Kramer

Polishing the family silver, Emily remembers her days as a much-sought-after dance partner. “Parties? Oh my yes.”

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Adaptive Radiation (book cover)

2 min · Male · Young Adult · Drama Robert, from Adaptive Radiation by Hannah Benitez

A medical student shares his deepest secret: why he trusts data more than people. “My deepest darkest secret …”

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Abraham Zobell's Home Movie: Final Reel (book cover)

2 min · Male · Older Adult · Dark Comedy Rabbi Moshowitz, from Abraham Zobell’s Home Movie: Final Reel… by Len Jenkin

A disgraced rabbi, now a poor pilgrim, tells the story of his fall and asks for forgiveness. “Today I am a poor pilgrim, but I was once the great Rabbi Fred Moshowitz.”

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Made for

  • Actors: walk into the room with a piece that fits you: the right length, the right age, the right tone.
  • Teachers & coaches: point every student to fresh material in seconds, from one-minute comedies to three-to-five-minute dramas.
  • Student competitors: free to use for speech, drama and thespian competitions. Your choice of starting and ending point.

Using the monologues

Monologues may be freely used for auditions and student competitions. Choose where to begin or end; otherwise, please perform them as written, with no edits or omissions. For any other use, contact us. Know an actor, teacher or coach with an audition coming up? Share this post with them.

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Happy monologuing!

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