17 Teen Monologues for Auditions

Are you a teen actor looking for audition monologues?  Monologue Blogger would like to share 17 Teen Monologues for Auditions.

Keep in mind if you don’t see an audition monologue in this section that interests you, visit our Monologue Hub which will provide you with a huge collection of monologues from published plays from Monologue Blogger.

Finding the right audition monologue is a process that doesn’t always come easily or quickly. However, if you have a good approach to finding material that works for you, finding a monologue won’t take forever.

By focusing on the following key points, you will free yourself up to discovering a good audition monologue.

• Keep within your age range
• Find a monologue you emotional connect with
• Use a monologue that will showcase your versatility
• Find a monologue that you believe you would be cast in

By considering the four key point mentioned above, you will narrow your focus on finding an audition monologue that will work best for your needs.

Finding Teen Dramatic Monologues for Auditions

You will find drama/comedy in our collection from 30 seconds, 1-2 minutes plus. Topics include family, friendship, high school, college, love, trust, work, health and food.

One-Way Conversation

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Bella
• Length: 1-minute monologue
• Excerpt: “Can’t you ever just be my friend and support me by giving me encouragement? Do you have any idea how impossible what I’m going after already is?” [Read full monologue]
• Insight: The emotional core of this monologue is rooted in Bella’s need to be loved.

See Me

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Alina
• Length: 1-minute monologue
• Excerpt: “…Don’t know what more I can do, wish they knew how much I cared. I needed this, I needed it to happen, would’ve kept me out of trouble for a while, an’ at least then I’d be given some kinda guidance, you know?” [Read full monologue]
• Insight: The emotional core of this monologue is rooted in Alina’s desire to be seen and heard.

Midsummer Night

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Chanade
• Length: 2-minute monologue
• Excerpt: “Well, I can’t shine. I don’t know how to shine. I don’t know how to stop feeling like this spoiled brat. I don’t deserve what I’m given. I want to feel normal.” [Read full monologue]
• Insight: The emotional core of this monologue is rooted in the desire to be loved.

Checking In

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Rob
• Length: 2-minute monologue
• Excerpt: “Mom wanted me to come here and be nice to you and start some kind of friendship. She was all too worried that I’d be left to my own devices and that’s in spite of knowing what you were…imagine? She still forgave you…and loved you.” [Read full monologue]
• Insight: The emotional core of this monologue is rooted in the hidden desire to have a family.

Dust in Our Eyes

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Dean
• Length: 2-minute monologue
• Excerpt: “I wanna take risks. 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” [Read full monologue]
• Insight: The emotional core of this monologue is rooted in the desire to be a good friend.

Cartwheel Leaf

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Riza
• Length: 1-minute monologue
• Excerpt: “Maybe I was too careless, maybe I didn’t care ’bout my car enough; she helped pay for it, and she probably felt like I was taking it all for granted. I just let her rant for a bit, then she calmed down, we both calmed down, and things were… alright again.” [Read full monologue]
• Insight: The emotional core of this monologue is rooted in the need to find common ground with her mother.

Peanuts On The Dollar

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Chester
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Excerpt: “What choice do I got?? Keep working at the shoe store for peanuts on the dollar? That ain’t no life. This needs to change and I’m a change it.” [Read full monologue]
• Insight: The emotional core of this monologue is rooted in the need to save his mother’s life.

Treat Me Nice

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Corinne
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Excerpt: “Be nice…to me.  I’m worth enough to be treated nice.  Treat me nice before I have an outburst.  A real outburst.  I’m talking a sumo outburst.  Huge.  So…treat me nice.  (beat)  Do you want more coffee?” [Read full monologue]
• Insight: The emotional core of this monologue is rooted in the need to have a better relationship.

See Me As A Stranger

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Gordy
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Excerpt: “Everything made sense to me again in a flash but now I’m left thinking that I was better off not knowing my life, that I wish I could erase it all…” [Read full monologue]
• Insight: The emotional core of this monologue is rooted in the desire to take care of one’s family.

What Ever Happened to Luella Beans?

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Rebecca
• Length: 1-2 minute monologue
• Excerpt: “I thought long and hard as to what I was gonna do on that day, and the final verdict in my mind decided I was gonna take Luella down..and so, that’s what I did…” [Read full monologue]
• Insight: The emotional core of this monologue is to confess the truth to someone who needs to hear it.

More Ways Than One

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Porterfield
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Excerpt: “I bring comfort in a way cause I’m labeled and I know I sound crazy but these are the things I’m dealing with and I just wanted you to hear it from me.” [Read full monologue]
• Insight: The emotional core of this monologue is rooted in the need to build a better reputation.

Dark Side of My Moon

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jobe
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Excerpt: “I’m trying to decipher how to put some kind of impenetrable gate on the border of that section of my brain. I don’t like the feelings I get that creep up on me” [Read full monologue]
• Insight: The emotional core of this monologue is rooted in the need to find inner emotional calm.

For All We’ve Got

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Luna
• Length: 2- minute monologue
• Excerpt: “What would he say to me? I think he’d say somethin’ smart, somethin’ that could make me feel better. I bet. Ya know, it’d be nice ’cause I’d make sure I’d…eh…I don’t wanna get…(Pause.) I’m just sayin’ that if things was different, right…I could do more.” [Read full monologue]
• Insight: The emotional core of this monologue is rooted in the desire for a better life.

Benny’s Got a Gun

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jerome
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Excerpt: “Whenever I hear about people going on about their five years of happy marriage, crap, I find it comical, ya know?” [Read full monologue]
• Insight: The emotional core of this monologue is rooted in the desire to understand the meaning of genuine love.

Other Side of the Chasm

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Chad
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Excerpt: “You know why? Cause there’s no sound I can ever make that’s loud enough for any of you to take notice of…what I do, who I am, doesn’t matter…never will because that’s just the way things go when you’re on the other side of the chasm.” [Read full monologue]
• Insight: The emotional core of this monologue is rooted in desire to feel like you can fit in with others.

Gone Before You Left

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Tash
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Excerpt: “I’ll never make it out if I don’t leave tonight. If I don’t leave with you tonight, I’ll live out my life regretting it, it’ll haunt me, it’ll creep up on me at night and turn my thoughts into nightmares, don’t look away Peg!” [Read full monologue]
• Insight: The emotional core of this monologue is rooted in the desire to runaway and start a new life somewhere else.

The Bear

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Tiffany
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Excerpt: “The battles tire me. All these outside forces that get in the way of what I’m always trying to do.” [Read full monologue]
• Insight: The emotional core of this monologue is rooted in the need to overcome caring for people so much.

Using Teen Drama Monologues to Expand Your Range

Teen Drama monologues are a powerful training tool that could help you develop stronger:

• Pacing and Rhythm
• Listening skills
• Spontaneity
• Emotional transitions
• Physical expression
• Vocal rhythm and precision
• Character choices

Looking for More Teen Dramatic Monologues?

If you’d like to explore more dramatic, comedic, or audition-ready pieces, visit our Main Monologue Hub for a full collection organized by tone, age, and genre.