30 Contemporary Plays for Young Adults gathers carefully selected published play scripts for actors seeking modern plays with monologues.

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30 Contemporary Plays for Young Adults

It is one of our goals to throw our hat in the ring and help nurture the performing arts by giving voice to young acting students in need of monologue dramas.

That isn’t to say we all can’t draw from the fantastic writers past and present who have done and are actively making incredible work in the theatre.

We always encourage artists of any age to read contemporary plays from writers around the world.

Monologue Blogger is a young company that strives to create stories for both theatre and film.  It is our mission to simply write good stories.

We invent stories that cover a wide range of genres, characters and situations.  Everything from drama or comedy, to horror or thriller, to surreal or thought-provoking.

We enjoy challenging ourselves with story structure to find interesting ways of expressing modern, yet universal ideas.

The 30 contemporary plays for young adults presented here are chosen from stories we’ve written that we hope will have a creative impact toward your own creative passion.

Let’s begin!

Monologues from Contemporary Plays

ANOTHER STORY WRITTEN
Moe has never made a serious commitment with his girlfriend or career, and finally makes the realization that he needs to act.

THINKING OF SOMEONE ELSE
Toya realizes its time to pull away from the woman she loves because she feels different.

SINGLE HAPPY MOMENT
Doug and Priscilla are on the run for their lives, and in a moment of calm, Doug tells Priscilla how much he loves her.

FIVE MONTHS LATER
During the middle of the night Carlston wakes up to hear his ex-girlfriend screaming wild obscenities at him.

WHAT NEVER WAS
Serena’s band falls apart just as they are creating their debut album in the recording studio.

THE NOTES
Lucas works for a for a private company that even he doesn’t exactly know what it’s about.

CARTWHEEL LIFE
Riza’s boyfriend has a tattoo that provides her with a philosophy that may improve her relationship with her mother.

NO IS BETTER THAN SILENCE
After leaving her boyfriend without notice, Mickey finds Kyra in their local diner with an entirely new life.

CATCHING SUMMER
Pam and her boyfriend are trying to escape their current dwelling, when Pam’s boyfriend Teddy over his fear of turtles.

FOR ALL WE’VE GOT
Luna feels as though her life is headed downward and is freaking out for a way to figure out her future.

CLEO
Cleo is an aristocrat with a mental illness who believes that everyone is out to kill her.

BENNY’S GOT A GUN
Jerome doesn’t think true love is real and that everyone fakes it wherever he goes.

I’M SORRY YOU’RE SO BEAUTIFUL
Amanda and Jake are seeing one another behind the scenes to their Broadway debut, but the nature of their wild relationship is catching up to them.

HALF OF NOTHING
Willard is broke and it ain’t no joke and he needs cash fast before he’s officially out on the street.

HAZE OF DREAMS
A young businessman thinks he can outsmart an older businessman, but gets a surprise that goes beyond what he could have imagined.

UP THE LINE
Paulie has a chance to straighten out his life by getting married, but he doesn’t think he’ll ever be a great husband.

NEGATIVE ENERGY
Rose can’t cope with Meagan’s twisted way of living in their apartment and wants her to leave.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Kelly believes that her friend has been secretly robbing all her story ideas.

Scenes from Contemporary Plays

YOU WERE GIVING UP (1 woman, 1 man)
When Lia finds out that her best friend isn’t going to college she challenges him to change his mind.

I WOULDN’T GO NEAR HER (1 woman, 1 man)
While visiting his girlfriend in college, Martin discovers that Mischa is looking for more than just their relationship.

BEER AND BOBBY’S LASAGNA (1 woman, 2 men)
Kutch does his friend a favor by helping him move out a woman all while feeling terribly sick from bad food and beer.

FOUR SUMMERS AGO (2 women)
Two estranged sisters who haven’t spoken in years come together to try and work out their painful differences.

HURTS WHEN IT RAINS (2 men)
Two brothers try to find a common denominator when one of them is in love with a woman that is bad news.

LOVE IS A STRONG WORD (1 woman, 1 man)
Martin visits his girlfriend on campus only to get the surprise of his life.

MILTON’S PLIGHT (2 men)
Milton is disgruntled and takes it out on his partner while they sit at home bored.

THE LAST M&M SAMURAI (2 men)
A funny look into the philosophy of a guy who uses food as a metaphor for life.

NOBODY CARES (2 women, 1 man)
A couple enters a retail shop only to feel panicked by an intense sales representative.

FEVER DREAM (1 woman, 1 man)
Reggie befriends a bartender as she takes a drink before trying to work up the nerve to visit her father in the hospital.

FISHIN’ FOR MISERY (1 woman, 2 men)
An independent filmmaker is on the outs with his career and tries to figure out his future path.

DAY FOLLOWS NIGHT (2 women)
In the early morning hours Pina receives a phone call from her best friend who is drunk and needs to get picked up from a shady neighborhood.

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