17 Wildly Entertaining Monologues for Actors

17 Wildly Entertaining Monologues for Actors shares hand-picked monologues based on engaging dialogue, character and life circumstances.

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Essence of Life

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Gina
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Gina speaks with her brother during dinner about her leaving the man she was married to and finding her true self.
• Monologue Snippet: “I can’t seem to find it, I know it’s there, what I once felt, but it won’t come back. Perhaps, I’ve disappointed it. Perhaps it doesn’t trust me anymore. But I am here! I am present!” ~Gina
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The Visitant

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Rick
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Rick recounts the odd experience he had when he approached a blind man on the sidewalk.
• Monologue Snippet: “I got the feeling from him that he was expecting me. BUT–you know when you walk into someone’s home and they receive you in such a way because they are expecting you? (beat) He was expecting me.” ~Rick
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Toast of Broadway

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Charlie
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: This is a one-act play about Charlie and Tula, two creative dreamers with nothing in the world but their hopes in one another.
• Monologue Snippet: “I was up, I was down and I was up again…I was so up that even losing a couple of hands didn’t matter.” ~Charlie
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They Say We’re Boiling Our Brains Inside Our Skulls

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Vinny
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Vinny shares a story about his wife with his friends but the trouble is that Vinny does not have a wife.
• Monologue Snippet: “I hate myself for saying that to her; I’ve been sick over it all day. Ah, she knows she makes me mad, but she don’t deserve that, not her. Anyway, anyway, you fellas ever experience that?” ~Vinny
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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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Doll and the Dog

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Irene
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Irene confides in Gregory as a way to connect with him on a deeper level.
• Monologue Snippet: “I like to break things, Gregory. Ever since I was a kid. It made me feel better to shatter life.” ~Irene
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Landed On Lucky

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Sam
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Sam explains in detail to Carol about the events that took place one night that created a situation for Carol’s dog Lucky to get killed.
• Monologue Snippet: “It makes this whole thing feel incomplete, and I don’t want to have secrets buried in what I think is genuine. I’d rather you know the truth and hate me than love me as a liar.” ~Sam
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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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In the Face of the Beast

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Father Lewis
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Father Lewis tries to give good warning to Willa, who does not seem intimidated by the murderous beast roaming their town.
• Monologue Snippet: “I would be very mindful of taking long walks alone through the woods, at least, not until we locate and diminish this threat. For it is a threat, Willa. A threat so fierce, so evil, that no shotgun, no husband, and no faith can ever prevent. It exists and walks in and of itself. ” ~Father Lewis
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In the Murk of Night

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Edith
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Edith explains to her son why she should have taken more risks in her life.
• Monologue Snippet: “I’ve wasted my life and any time I’ve ever had on raising you to be cold, rotten, and careless… such as you’ve turned out.” ~Pedro
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Bounty of the Sun

• Genre: Drama / Period Drama
• Character: Renshō
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Renshō desires to have one final battle with the ghost of Atsumori in order to ease his own conscience.
• Monologue Snippet: “Thou shall give an honorable fight, raise out thy sword with all of thy might. Try to disfigure and crumble me…my ruler of haunted memory.” ~Renshō
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Sliced Thin

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Marci
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: In the one act eplay Sliced Thin, a mother and son are growing further apart while disaster looms overhead.
• Monologue Snippet: “You used to have a mind fierce with possibility. Used to look at life differently. I raised you right. To be strong.” ~Marci
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Stroke of Bad Luck

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Marcus
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Marcus gives a haunting, indirectly intense speech to Mrs. Krimley about how he imagines the world being.
• Monologue Snippet: “It’s a strange place we’re both in, isn’t it?” ~Marcus
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Last Day of June

• Genre: Drama
• Character: June
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: June explains to her neighbor how she was planning on killing herself.
• Monologue Snippet: “I was laying down in my tub and reached for my blow dryer but when my fingertips touched it, a voice called out to me, “June”.” ~Bella
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A Lifetime Supply of Sunshine

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Mr. P
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Mr. P alludes to the fact that something terrible is approaching a humble family.
• Monologue Snippet: “It’s a warm home, isn’t it? A place where a person feels safe, secure, never to expect the kind of tragedy life could throw at it…as it is what we call it..home.” ~Mr. P
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Fall No Further

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Mel
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Mel fears the inevitable that death isn’t too far off and she tries to cope with the acceptance of it with the man that she loves.
• Monologue Snippet: “An acceptance, even in that second of…perhaps there isn’t even a consciousness to it, but, oh, I don’t know what I’d do about it, how I’d process it. ” ~Mel
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