25 Best Monologues for Video Performances

25 Best Monologues for Video Performances gathers short and punchy monologue scripts for short form audition videos and acting reels.

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The monologues we selected for you to consider using for your video performance are engaging, active monologues that have the ability to tell a total story in a short span of time. They can be funny, emotional, and unique.

The Interim

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jonesy
• Age: 30’s
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Another baby crashes through Tilda and Jonesy’s living room window and they are left with trying to figure out what to do.
• Monologue Snippet: “Craig! We got another one. (beat) Yeah. Through the window. (beat) What? Craig, you’re the one that I’m supposed to call” ~Jonesy
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There He Is

• Genre: Comedy
• Character: Pete
• Age: 20’s-30’s
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Pete talks about how annoying his co-worker Andrew is and how he is caught in a world of inner turmoil over it.
• Monologue Snippet: “All the other co-workers round on him like he’s diseased and now I’m stuck with him and don’t know how to get rid of him.” ~Pete
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The Notes

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Lucas
• Age: 20’s
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Lucas speaks to Mr. Chestnut about why he doesn’t believe that the notes should ever be used.
• 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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The Dance

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Chester
• Age: 20’s
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Chester tries to admit a self truth to Elsie in order to push their relationship forward in a positive way.
• Monologue Snippet: “Maybe you’re right…maybe I need to let myself go and dive into the madness you seem to imagine I can’t throw myself into.” ~Chester
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Along With You

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Tilly
• Age: 20’s
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Tilly tries not to show her hurt and disappointment when her friends don’t realize she’s leaving town.
• Monologue Snippet: “Maybe the others noticed, but they didn’t care to say anything. No one’s asked me anythin’.” ~Tilly
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A Shade or Two Darker

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Lion
• Age: 18
• Duration: 1-2 -minute monologue
• Description: For the first time in his life, Lion stands up to his parent over race, family, and justice.
• Monologue Snippet: “Well, I’ve got news for you both, I may be your son, but I am not going to live my life like the two of you have. I will never allow the injustices I’ve witnessed to be overlooked. Anymore!” ~Lion
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Steady Steel Blues

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Herschel
• Age: 20’s
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Herschel tries to answer a question for a terrible crime he committed.  
• Monologue Snippet: “With time, you can change the past; you can make it whatever you want it to be; it doesn’t own you; you can change it, it isn’t constant.” ~Herschel
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Before The Night Blows Cold

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Billy
• Age: 20’s
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: After three months of not being around, Billy shows up at Azumi’s place, expecting her to hide him from all his troubles.
• Monologue Snippet: “…I been trying ever since to raise the cash back and I’ve come close a few times, but…tonight I thought I finally had it but as always I have no luck and it’s worse cause I took off at some card game, took some lumps but barely got away and now I have all kinds of people after me…” ~Billy
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Fallen Money

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Ruby
• Age: 17
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Ruby has been secretly contemplating freedom and thinks she has found it by way of Paul
• Monologue Snippet: “We have a plan, and we’ll work on it. We’ll execute it, find the money, make the money, and then let’s see what the hell happens.” ~Ruby
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Checking In

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Rob
• Age: 18
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: After his mother’s death, Rob confronts his father over his disappearance and lack of family involvement.
• Monologue Snippet: “Why start a family to begin with if you aren’t strong enough to keep em?” ~Rob
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Delivery

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Kelly
• Age: 18
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Kelly confesses to her friend about an attempted robbery she made on them.
• Monologue Snippet: “Watching you and seeing how good you are to me…I don’t even know why I’m telling you the truth..I don’t like this feeling of guilt all over me.” ~Kelly
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Dog Anxiety

• Genre: Comedy
• Character: Zara
• Age: 20’s
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Zara spills her guts to her neighbor over the torturous night she has had babysitting for her friend’s new puppy.
• Monologue Snippet: “She asks me to watch her puppy, Oscar. I say sure, I mean, how bad could it be to watch an innocent, harmless, cute little puppy? Right? Right? WRONG!” ~Zara
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Cartwheel Leaf

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Riza
• Age: 16
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Riza talks about how her boyfriend’s tattoo has changed her perspective in relation to her mother.
• Monologue Snippet: “Like if we take our point of view about something that makes us angry as hell, if we flip our perspective on it, see it from the opposite side, we might realize all this negative feeling we have inside of us, is all for nothing.” ~Riza
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For All We’ve Got

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Luna
• Age: 17
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Tash explains why she needs the chance to leave to go to New York City for what she believes is a better life.
• Monologue Snippet: “A person deserves a chance, even if it’s only a single chance at something greater than themselves.” ~Tash
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Tina, Hank, Hank, TIna

• Genre: Comedy
• Character: Hank
• Age: 20’s
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Hank arrives at his brother’s place in order to help him avoid being killed.
• Monologue Snippet: “How the hell do you live this way? HOW?! The moment I arrived here it’s been nothing but misdirection, running in circles and getting shot at.” ~Hank
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Catching Summer

• Genre: Comedy
• Character: Pam
• Age: 20’s
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Pam tells her boyfriend off because he has a terrible habit of fainting whenever he crosses paths with a turtle.
• Monologue Snippet: “You’re a damn fool, if there ever was one. Told you to eat before we left. Did ya listen?” ~Pam
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Waking Hours

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Willis
• Age: 20’s
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Willis talks to his girlfriend about how he watched two birds crash into the same building on different days.
• Monologue Snippet: “I have one of those damn personalities. You know the one. The kind of guy that flares up over stupid nonsense. That’s me. I don’t want to be. Just by nature. I work at it. I work at keeping calm, but I see things that bother me.” ~Willis
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Nothing Matters

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Amber
• Age: 16
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: As awkward as Amber can be, she communicates with honesty and truth.
• Monologue Snippet: “I believe it helps to not know someone too well or not know them at all and just pour your heart out and walk away.” ~Amber
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Midnight Sighs

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Dom
• Age: 20’s
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Dom is dumbfounded over the fact that the woman he’s been chasing for years has suddenly went off with another man inside of an hour.
• Monologue Snippet: “I’ve been at it for three years. Three years. Not even a cup of coffee. Believe that? I couldn’t even strike up the nerve to ask her out for a cup of coffee. I’d come in here every week, I couldn’t take my eyes off her, thinking about how beautiful she is, I always made her laugh. Loads of times, good times.” ~Dom
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See Me

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Alina
• Age: 18
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Alina is saddened by the fact that no drama school is willing to accept her.
• Monologue Snippet: “…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?” ~Alina
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Pizza from Carlos

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Corky
• Age: 20’s
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Corky shows up at a strangers apartment offering pizza in order to tell her story.
• Monologue Snippet: “To think, I love this woman, actually love her more than anything in this world…why is it so hard to control our emotions? (beat) I’m asking you guys…why?” ~Corky
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String of False Starts

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Henry
• Age: 20’s
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Henry visits his brother in order to give him a wake up call for his life.
• Monologue Snippet: “Look at yourself. Look where you are…you happy? Living home with mom with no direction for your own life. No girlfriend, no friends and now you’ve quit the first good job you ever had.” ~Henry
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Raison d’ être

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Marlo
• Age: 20’s
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Marlo complains and whines to his girlfriend about hoe he believes he’s cursed with no luck.
• Monologue Snippet: “I’m tired. Gifted at nothing and raving mad at..everything. The walls, the stars, the holes in my socks..stuck in this oversized arm pit I call home, with a landlady who wants to eat me for lust.” ~Marlo
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Songs From the Courtyard

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Paul
• Age: 20’s
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Paul drunkenly explains to his girlfriend that he doesn’t know how to fix himself.
• Monologue Snippet: “I’d have to be rebuilt, or somethin’…. yeah? I’ve got to get torn down and made from scratch, ’cause that’s the only way I could love you without threat. I could love you with wings.” ~Paul
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Half of Nothing

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Willard
• Age: 20’s
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Willard wants his money back from the friend that he borrowed it to.
• Monologue Snippet: “You’ll think you paid me back, or you’ll forget you even borrowed from me to begin with. And I’ll be left stranded on a deserted island named FORGOTTEN.” ~Willard
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