16 Free Monologues for Teenagers

16 Free Monologues for Teenagers are for young actors searching for audition material for competitions, contests or drama class material.

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Topics of monologues include first love, suicide, heartbreak, respect, integrity, foodies, privacy, career and more.

Treat Me Different

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Marshall
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Marshall struggles with his identity and turns to his father, who doesn’t seem to be able to help him.
• Monologue Snippet: “I don’t like who I am and I don’t wanna be who I am and I have no where to go!” ~Marshall
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More Ways Than One

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Porterfield
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Porterfield has become the go to guy at school for trouble but while in the principal’s office for another issue a different side to Porterfield gets revealed.
• Monologue Snippet: “Mr. Agnon…um…the things that I deal with everyday, it seems to always be happening to me and how do I know when it’s big enough for me to get you.” ~Porterfield
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Sly Statements

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Melanie
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Melanie and her boyfriend Leo.  Melanie’s dark past gets revealed and sheds light for Leo on their relationship.
• Monologue Snippet: “What I’m saying you really need to listen to…I don’t know if you have something against me or if you think I’m dumb or less educated than you are or whatever you have going on but I will not tolerate your indirect insults anymore.” ~Melanie
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Far and Away

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Eddie
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Miriam fears the closeness her son Eddie has with his friend Anton.
• Monologue Snippet: “Since Dad passed, he’s the only friend that’s really looked out for me. You know, the only one who cares. My other friends… they just keep on living, but Anton, he’s aware; he says things that I know mean something.” ~Eddie
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A Sense of Belonging

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Beverly
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Beverly opens up to her mother about how she wishes she knew how to fit in at school.
• Monologue Snippet: “I want to feel at ease when I go to school. I want to feel like I fit in. I’m never part of that crowd, always on the outskirts looking in. I’d like to be part of the action for once and not so in my head.” ~Beverly
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After-School Activities

• Genre: Drama
• Character: LaQuisha
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: LaQuisha is training at the park for track & field.  Her mother is there training her but the intensity is too much for LaQuisha.
• Monologue Snippet: “And I become worried about what I’m doing. I become so aware of my actions that I’m mentally crippled because I just want to please you, so that you will get off my back and stop criticising me.” ~LaQuisha
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No Choice

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Justin
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: A love story of two teenagers Judy and Justin who struggle to be together over the course of years as neither time nor circumstances allow them to be a couple.
• Monologue Snippet: “I know you would and so I’d move on and find someone too but it’d never be the same with her because lookin’ into her eyes would never compare with lookin’ into yours.” ~Justin
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You’re A Potato Head

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Ronda
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Ronda wishes to see her cousin do more with her life.
• Monologue Snippet: “I can’t. I can’t. I just can’t with you. Where do I even begin? You are living in your own bubble. You don’t even see the outside world.” ~Ronda
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With a Broken Wing

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Bob
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Bob meets Lea’s family for the first time before their date, but soon discovers that she is going to the prom with someone else. 
• Monologue Snippet: “Who am I to judge or have a say? It’s not like we can’t still dance, right Lea? We can still dance together…I like to dance…if I can have one dance with you, then it would all be worth it.” ~Bob
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Whispers of Trees

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Shelly
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Shelly gives a hand of support to her boyfriend Nate in order to make him see his own self value.
• Monologue Snippet: “Come on, Nate, we might not be scholar kids, we’ve barely gotten through these years, but we’ve had some damn good times and I don’t see any kind of grand success bigger than those moments.” ~Shelly
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One Thing

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Brianna
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Brianna defends her integrity by explaining how she values who she is as a person.
• Monologue Snippet: “It’s not that I don’t want to have intercourse, it’s just that I don’t want to have it after the first or second or third date, you know?” ~Brianna
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Dust In Our Eyes

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Dean
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Dean shares the difficulties from his own life in order to shed light on his best friend’s situation.
• Monologue Snippet: “I wanna find something I can do in my life that will make me so damn happy I won’t have to be miserable one day while going to work, unlike my Pops, there isn’t a day that goes by where he’s not moaning about his job, he comes home and drinks himself into oblivion and my mother, God bless her, she puts up with it, but deep down she isn’t happy either, cause she never did the things she wanted to do for her…you know why?” ~Dean
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Roger Used To Be Willy

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Rosanna
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Rosanna gets captured from Buck who is assigned the duty of getting her back home safely to her father.
• Monologue Snippet: “Why can’t I go out and do the things I want to do? I’m not happy. I don’t care about my education and being kind and having morals and values” ~Rosanna
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Piper’s Coming Home

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jerome
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Jerome tries to convince Benny that he should let Piper have back her room.
• Monologue Snippet: “She was here way before you or I, and I don’t know about you, but she was good with me when I first arrived, she made me feel like I belonged.” ~Jerome
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Rose To Ash

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Aggie
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Aggie reaches the final peak of her existence under the neglectful eye of her Uncle Burt, her legal guardian, who doesn’t seem to care about her at all.
• Monologue Snippet: “I see it all, your lies, they creep up and around these walls, shadows everywhere…their faces, what did they leave Burt?” ~Aggie
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Thin Ice

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Kyle
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Kyle makes friend with Scarlet while they are both coming out of detention.
• Monologue Snippet: “People out here seem too busy with their own lives. Nobody really cares to take any interest in me and I don’t blame them. I’m the new kid, right?” ~Kyle
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