17 Free Monologues for Teenagers

17 Free Monologues for Teenagers offers a great assortment of teen comedy/drama monologues for school, auditions and videos.

Where else can you find original teen monologues?  Visit our Main Monologue Hub– hundreds of free monologues from MB’s published play scripts.

Where can I find theatre monologues for teenagers?

Monologue Blogger has a dedicated section specifically for teen drama theatre. Each week new play scripts are published on MB for young thespians.

Below we’ve captured a collection of teen monologues that may be used for classroom work, auditions, and video uploads for acting practice.

You will find monologues based on topics such as friendship, love, family, individuality, and ambition.

Shadows of My Mind

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Naomi
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Naomi has a deep conversation with her one true aunt about her problems with depression.
• Monologue Snippet: “I just want to be happy and want to know that I am living my life with purpose.  I don’t want to have any regrets when I get old and look back on the life I’ve lived; cause I won’t be able to go back and that would kill me in the end.” ~Naomi
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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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Sliver of Sincerity

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Lenora
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Lenora and Emily have a terrible argument and their father steps in after he hears a crash.
• Monologue Snippet: “So closed off from reality.  You never see anyone else around you, never take the time to move outside of yourself and actually care for another living soul.” ~Lenora
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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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Delivery

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Kelly
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Kelly drops off another pizza pie to a regular customer named Salve, with the hopes of receiving an envelope filled with money.
• Monologue Snippet: “You told me today that you’d give me an envelope filled with money to help me, ’cause you’re a kindhearted person, and now I am ashamed.” ~Shadira
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Salt and Stone

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jena
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Jena turns to her trustworthy Aunt Fia for help regarding ongoing arguments with her mother and a new guy she’s been secretly seeing.
• Monologue Snippet: “…He said he hates how their reputation hurts his own good name. He told me that, and he told me he’s gonna reinstate the name.” ~Jena
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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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Lost and Found

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Kimmie
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Kimmie is trying to come to terms with who she is as a person after the painful loss of a friend named Tommy. 
• Monologue Snippet: “He really lived, almost like he knew in some strange way he was going to die young” ~Kimmie
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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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Stop Playing The Victim

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Sally
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Sally visits her best friend Helena to share exciting news only to be shut down over Helena’s never-ending problems.
• Monologue Snippet: “Do you realize that every time I come over here you have nothing nice to say.  You are always complaining and moaning about your work, your boyfriend, your family, your apartment…you never have anything happy going on it seems.” ~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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Mind Trick

• Genre: Drama
• Character: M/F
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: A teen drama monologue that explores how one deals with strange thoughts and erratic behavior within ourselves.
• Monologue Snippet: “That’s as far as I want to go with it, with what I’m telling you cause it makes me feel funny discussing this but do you, honestly; do you ever—does your mind ever play tricks on you?” ~M/F
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