16 Teen Monologues from Short Published Plays

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See Me As A Stranger

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Gordy
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Gordy is beginning to come to terms with figuring out a better path for improving his own life for his daughter.
• Monologue Snippet: ” I was walkin’ along the tracks and all of a sudden I blanked out, like, I didn’t know who I was, where I was, I didn’t know what I was doin’, where I was goin’ or comin’ from…” ~Gordy
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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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Four Summers Ago

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Evandra
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Evandra makes it clear to her sister that she is going to become successful with or without her support.
• Monologue Snippet: “You know, I don’t even care that you called me a failure, it was what was behind it that hurt me most. The way it sounded when it came out of your mouth.” ~Evandra
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High Places

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Harrison
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Harrison locates the girl he met on campus to discover that they come from very different backgrounds but despite their differences, Harrison can’t stop himself from caring about Tiffany.
• Monologue Snippet: “The reason I came to find you is because you’re different. I found myself being able to breathe around you. You’re here and I’m there but who really cares?” ~Harrison
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Typical Teen

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Shadira
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Shadira is a ice skating prodigy who receives no understanding from her family for the vital support she needs to succeed with her passion.
• Monologue Snippet: “I don’t have time to have hour-long dinners with you and the family, or do chores or any of the things that all the other girls my age do…I can’t even date anyone or go to house parties or any of it.” ~Shadira
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The Pit of My Stomach

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Nina
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Nina demands that her father stop his criminal hustles and instead shapes up to be the father she always hoped he could be.
• Monologue Snippet: “No, no, I won’t do it Charlie.  I won’t.  I’m not going in for another one of your hustles.  You always give me the worst feeling in the pit of my stomach and it reaches down to my thighs—” ~Nina
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Dark Side of My Moon

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jobe
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Jobe has the potential to be a pro athlete one day but confesses to his brother that he thinks his competitive intensity might not be all that healthy.
• Monologue Snippet: “I noticed that in the deeper part of my mind, like the dark side of the moon, things tend to get blurred between my good nature and truly not giving a damn about whoever I’ve carried over to that quiet, cold, shadowed part of my consciousness.” ~Jobe
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Fallen Money

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Ruby
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Ruby tries to connect to Paul to get him to understand her need to leave the town they both grew up in.
• Monologue Snippet: “That’s the truth; maybe you can, maybe you’re the stronger one out of us all, but we could help each other.” ~Ruby
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The Notes

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Lucas
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Lucas has been brought in by Mr. Chestnut to discuss if he had received and read through the notes,  and if he is willing to accept the necessary changes.
• Monologue Snippet: “The adjustments suggested will morph me into something less coherent, perhaps unrecognizable, in what I believe would be an absolute decline in my purpose.” ~Lucas
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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 Way Road

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Pedro
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Pedro visits his local bar for a pint in order to cope with his problems.  While there, he has a conversation with his friend Babs who is also dealing with disturbing issues.
• Monologue Snippet: “You know, I’ve been dealing with enough sh’t in my life and now I gotta think about you killing yourself one day.” ~Pedro
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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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Just So You Know

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Sally
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Sally talks to her sister about why she never treats her like she cares about her.
• Monologue Snippet: “Why do you have to be such a loser to me all the time?  You literally treat me like dirt.  It’s like we’re not even sisters. ” ~Sally
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Lost Against The Alley

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Buck
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Buck is trying to figure out a way to avoid his job interview because he feels that it’s pointless to even try going. His girlfriend Orla has a different point of view.
• Monologue Snippet: “I told you, there’s these scouts that hit you up on your profile, sending you a message, making you feel special, when all they’re doing is going through the motions to secure their own job.” ~Buck
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One-Way Conversation

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Bella
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: All Bella hopes for is that her mother finds the time to be her friend rather than always running around for everyone else and being busy all of the time.
• Monologue Snippet: “You don’t understand, you don’t ever hear what I’m trying to say to you. It’s always a one-way conversation.” ~Bella
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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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