10 Minute Drama Plays for College Students

10 Minute Drama Plays for College Students opens up original contemporary scripts for the modern-day theatre school actor.

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Monologue Blogger provides actors with college audition material from published play scripts. We produce new story scripts each week with monologues attached that you may use for auditions.

The 10 Minute Drama Plays presented here are chosen from MB’s archive of story content with the focus on dramatic roles for characters mostly in their 20’s.

Coffee Table

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Melanie
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Melanie’s life now exists inside an asylum where her daily treatments confuse her into not knowing where reality begins or ends.
• Monologue Snippet: “I stared directly at the table, it was a coffee table and…glass…glass coffee table, and the glass that sat on the legs of the table opened up and jaws, TEETH, teeth came out like a shark and it started biting the air and the legs became fully animated and it was a monster now and this monster table wanted to eat me.” ~Melanie
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Checking In

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Rob
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: After being abandoned by his father as a child and promising his mother to locate him while on her deathbed, Rob finds his dad and releases everything he feels for so many years.
• Monologue Snippet: “Mom wanted me to come here and be nice to you and start some kind of friendship.” ~Rob
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Gone Too Soon

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Tarva
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Tarva wishes her father would make the effort to change in order to spend more time with his grandkids.
• Monologue Snippet: “Think you’d slow down on those beers you keep popping and HOW DO YOU DO IT?” ~Tarva
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Dark Place

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jeffrey
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: After a horrific altercation on set in a theatre, Jeffrey has a new home in an asylum where he gets treated for his mental illness.
• Monologue Snippet: “When you are someone like me, you connect with that dark place, you identify with it. I forget who said that we are all living lives of quiet desperation.” ~Jeffrey
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Don’t Leave Me Without Muffin

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Ginger
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Ginger has a final conversation with her mother before leaving home for good.
• Monologue Snippet: “You never cared about me. You selfish, waste of life, you only cared about me if it served you well in some way.” ~Ginger
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Wasted Talent

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Donnie
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Donnie talks about the talented friend he lost due to suicide.
• Monologue Snippet: “He stopped believing; that’s it, that’s why he failed…he quit. So much talent, so much potential, but he stopped believing in himself.” ~Donnie
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Momma, I’m No Fool

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Daphne
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Daphne explains to her mother that she is having a first time meeting with her biological father.
• Monologue Snippet: “Both a you were gonna get married, but not before you found out he was sleeping around on ya.” ~Daphne
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A Shade or Two Darker

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Lion
• Duration: 1-2 -minute monologue
• Description: Lion is darker skinned than his parents and this has caused much unspoken anguish, until now.
• Monologue Snippet: “You were right to say that I don’t look like you or mother. I don’t and I don’t wish to.” ~Lion
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To The Lake

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Barb
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Barb tells the story about how she firmly believes she was definitely a crocodile in her past life.
• Monologue Snippet: “I was big. I was bad. I had tremendous power…until I was taken.” ~Barb
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Waking Hours

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Willis
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Willis is completely bent out of shape after witnessing two birds who meet their death by flying into a high rise building window.
• Monologue Snippet: “Just the other day, we were going for our daily walk and lo and behold I noticed two birds flying together in the sky and it always strikes me as romantic when I see that, their freedom, their harmony, flying together in that way side by side and then SMACK, one of the birds flew straight into the window of a high-rise and I watched as it slowly fell lifelessly to the sidewalk.” ~Willis
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Mad to the Core

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Phebe
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: After Phoebe learns that her father killed himself, she does a three-sixty with her own life.
• Monologue Snippet: “I work my shift, come home, you work your odd hours, spend the rest of your time in the pub and come home; we’re not goin’ anywhere. Day in, day out. On repeat!” ~Phebe
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Landed on Lucky

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Sam
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Sam tries to get Carol to understand why and how he accidentally killed her beloved dog Lucky.
• Monologue Snippet: “I really like the way things have been going between us. I can’t feel like I’m deceiving you when we’re together, like I’m hiding something. It makes this whole thing feel incomplete, and I don’t want to have secrets buried in what I think is genuine.” ~Sam
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In the Hour of Rain

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Alanna
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Alanna justifies her drinking problem to her friend.
• Monologue Snippet: “You’ll know that feeling when your face hits the mud and you’re worthless. I just hope you’ll have someone near you, though. Someone that’ll be there for you, someone who’ll say it’ll be alright.” ~Alanna
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The Last Words I Heard Her Say

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Heath
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Heath talks to his mother while she lay dying in a hospital bed incoherent.
• Monologue Snippet: “They have you all rigged up, don’t they? (pause.) Well, I’m here… I don’t want to be here, but I’m here; you asked me to be here, and I’m here, alright? ” ~Heath
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Fallen Money

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Ruby
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Ruby tries to convince Paul that he has to take her with him because she too wishes to escape her life.
• Monologue Snippet: “Look at the mess you got into today; you didn’t even know how to take care of yourself. I see way ahead, not just what’s right in front of us. I see beyond that.” ~Ruby
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The Correct Source

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Dillard
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Dillard makes it apparently clear for Ewen to do his evil bidding.
• Monologue Snippet: “I know you specialize in death, so I approached you. I saw what you did to Becky years ago; I knew what you did and where you left her body.” ~Dillard
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Peanuts on the Dollar

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Chester
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Chester wishes to save his mother’s life by committing a crime to get the money she needs for an operation.
• Monologue Snippet: “No more roaches that come to sleep with you at night. I want big windows so our house is filled with light, lots of light with a view of the ocean, so my mom can go to the beach and laugh with the dolphins and get tan whenever she wants.” ~Chester
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I Saw Two Clouds in the Sky Kiss Once

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Luna
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Luna is in a rehabilitation program but takes her frustrations out on her counselor.
• Monologue Snippet: ” I get the feeling things are falling apart. Take you, for example. You’re an awkward fellow, if you don’t mind my saying so. Clearly, something is amiss.” ~Luna
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Petals From a Rose

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Clifford
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Clifford tells the whole truth over how his mind stopped working properly.
• Monologue Snippet: “My mind, Margaret. It is not well. Something happened to me on that day.  Something came over my mind. I suddenly believed myself to be unworthy of you, of our love, of our future.” ~Clifford
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Nameless Grace

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Colette
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Colette believes that her former lover has returned from war after being announced dead.
• Monologue Snippet: “No one told me he was alive! (Beat) I watched him from behind the hedge; I saw what had become of him. (She drops her apple to the ground unknowingly.) Everything was retained, his hair, his gestures, his strength…until I noticed a sudden movement he made, a movement that wasn’t his own, as if something or someone had taken control of him. ” ~Colette
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Woman With Wings

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Kelton
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Kelton talks about how lifeless and purposeless his life has become.
• Monologue Snippet: “First, I was taken back by being the only one out here on the patio for such a lively event; then I noticed this dreadful dead silence; then I thought it wasn’t so dreadful after all. It was the kind of silence where only our own movements are heard, which led me to my usual, unsettling, morbid thoughts.” ~Kelton
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Gleam of Dawn

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Annie
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Annie talks to her ex-boyfriend about the unloving marriage she has found herself living.
• Monologue Snippet: “I can’t take another day with him. I thought perhaps I would see him in a different light, that everything he promised would — but it was all so cold, as if it were only his duty, no warmth, no affection, just business as usual, as if all we were to each other was some well thought out business arrangement with all the rules mapped out for the both of us ahead of time.” ~Annie
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The Dance

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Chester
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Chester makes an attempt at trying to get closer to Elsie who may or may not respond favorably to his effort.
• Monologue Snippet: “I watched you dance because I enjoyed watching you. I liked seeing you have a good time, being free, full of laughter, and expressive…the way I wish I could be.” ~Chester
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Before The Night Blows Cold

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Billy
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Billy tries to justify his disappearance to his girlfriend Azumi.
• Monologue Snippet: “I been trying ever since to raise the cash back and I’ve come close a few times, but…tonight I thought I finally had it but as always I have no luck and it’s worse cause I took off at some card game, took some lumps but barely got away and now I have all kinds of people after me” ~Billy
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Rupert’s Reverie

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Rupert
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Rupert talks to his Aunt about how he has changed from the little boy she remembers him to be.
• Monologue Snippet: “I’m considered average, not because I lack potential, but because striving for more raises the red flags, it seems.” ~Rupert
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For All We’ve Got

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Luna
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Luna is reaching out to her friend, trying to figure out how they can make what she calls a ‘real’ life for themselves.
• Monologue Snippet: “I don’t see one person out there that, that’s like me, or was like me, or cares enough about me to..ah, man.” ~Luna
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Gone Before You Left

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Tash
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Tash begs Peggy to take her to New York so she can change her life forever.
• Monologue Snippet: “Peggy, don’t you see where my future’s heading? You know how terrible it is here. I can’t do another day here in this place without thinking I’m going to lose my mind.” ~Tash
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Of Distance Run

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Clark
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Clark explains to his brother the important of him letting him have their father’s truck.
• Monologue Snippet: “With that ride I could travel far, and you’ll never hear from me again. It’ll be a peace offering. It’ll be like…like he’s driving with me in a way, or like he cared enough about me to pass the baton…’cause he wanted me to…didn’t he?” ~Clark
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Dead Man’s Wallet

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Cal
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Cal tries to justify why he ran someone over while driving.
• Monologue Snippet: “Kya…I was in a rage…my mind went blank. Everything became fogged. Nothing was clear. I was losing myself…I couldn’t stop myself from feeling…it was…all I heard was the violence; I entered a terrible place within myself, so deafening I couldn’t think, and in that instant I couldn’t stop it;” ~Cal
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Crimson

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Mel
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Chuckie wants to take Holly out for a cup of coffee, despite the criminal exchange that’s taking place.
• Monologue Snippet: “I’ll tell you what. Look at it this way. It’s a public space. There are loads of people at Eugene’s. It’s family-friendly. On a night like this, it’ll be packed. We go there, get to know each other a bit, and it’ll be easy.” ~Chuckie
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What Never Was

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Serena
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Serena doesn’t want to see her music band split up and she hits them all with a dose of truth.
• Monologue Snippet: “This was, making music, doing gigs, and recording this album made us all feel something. At least, I thought that’s how we felt. Even if we’re just tryna understand what it is that we need to express, we felt alive.” ~Serena
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Cold Sunday

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Roger
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Roger shares the story of what how he was attacked by a dog who he thought was his friend.
• Monologue Snippet: “You didn’t hear me the first bloody time. (sighs) Alright. (sighs again) I pulled up on my bike like I always do. I entered through that stupid gate like I always do and walked to the backyard.” ~Roger
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