21 Monologues for High School Drama Classes

Teen actors can work on MB selected 21 Monologues for High School Drama Classes with their drama teacher and fellow acting students.

For a deeper selection of teen monologues from contemporary plays, visit Monologues for Teenagers

Where can I find free teen monologues for drama class?

Monologue Blogger is a performing arts resource that has been around since 2006 and has a dedicated section of free monologues for teenagers from published play scripts.

One-Way Conversation

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Bella
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Bella goes head to head with her mother over how she feels neglected when it comes to her mother showing her any support for her dreams.
• 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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Don’t Leave Me Without Muffin

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Ginger
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: A sad story about a mother and daughter going their separate ways in life.
• Monologue Snippet: “All those times I had no choice but to walk into town and search through garbage containers and dumpsters behind McDonalds, just so I could eat.” ~Ginger
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Fungus Among Us

• Genre: Comedy
• Character: Alexa
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Alexa has reached the end of her patience when it comes to her roommate being such a slob.
• Monologue Snippet: “Look at this stuff. Look at this! Macaroni and Cheese that has been in here three Macaroni and Cheeses ago!” ~Alexa
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Them Candles

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Kendra
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Kendra tries to get her mother to understand why she deserves the right to go out on a date.
• Monologue Snippet: “There ain’t nothin’ sadder in life than to die with regret and I damn well promise this disease that I ain’t goin’ till the sun comes up!” ~Kendra
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Waste of Time

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Byron
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Byron wishes to follow his own interests without getting a proper education and he tries to reason with his parents.
• Monologue Snippet: “It’s useless information. All I’m learning is how to temporarily memorize stuff I have no interest in, in order to pass tests!” ~Byron
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You Were Never There

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Faye
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Faye has the most difficult time accepting her father’s desire to make amends with her in order to improve their disastrous relationship.
• Monologue Snippet: “Why’d it take you so long to try and make things right?” ~Faye
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Benny’s Got A Gun

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jerome
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Jerome talks to his friend about how destructive life was back home before he ran away.
• Monologue Snippet: “The trouble is that everyone only wants to show the good parts. No one dares talk about the struggle and what it takes to soldier through…we’d all be better off if people weren’t stuck in some false idea they keep on feeding to themselves or others.” ~Jerome
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Fallen Money

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Ruby
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Ruby has been secretly contemplating freedom and thinks she has found it by way of Paul
• Monologue Snippet: “We won’t have to do this alone, and that counts. I don’t think I could do this on my own.” ~Ruby
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Midsummer Night

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Chanade
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Charade is desperate for help in order to save her life and hopes that her best friend will be her lifeline.
• Monologue Snippet: “Well, there isn’t anything good about any of that. I much rather trade my life with someone less fortunate, with someone who’s broke and struggles, than have anything I want with the snap of my fingers.” ~Chanade
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Dark Side of My Moon

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jobe
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Jobe confesses his unhealthy obsession with winning.
• Monologue Snippet: “I don’t go around wishing anyone bad or go out of my way to hurt anyone, but 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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Cartwheel Leaf

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Riza
• 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
• 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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Gone Before You Left

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Tash
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Luna talks to her friend about how she wishes she had a father figure in her life.
• Monologue Snippet: “I just wonder what it woulda been like to know him, what kinda advice he’d give–like, what if he coulda been the kind of father that I’d share a deli coffee and a mornin’ walk with?” ~Luna
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The Bear

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Tiffany
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Tiffany is in the habit of always putting others first even at her own expense.
• Monologue Snippet: “The battles tire me. All these outside forces that get in the way of what I’m always trying to do.” ~Tiffany
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Other Side of the Chasm

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Chad
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Chad talks about how he doesn’t think he will ever be capable of fitting in with his age group.
• Monologue Snippet: “You seemed, I don’t know, in your natural element, where you belong…you were accepted and I realized on my walk back home that I wasn’t and that sooner or later you and I, this friendship we supposedly have, is gonna thin out and end.” ~Chad
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Peanuts on the Dollar

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Chester
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Chester lets his friend in on a secret about how he plans to commit a crime to get the money for his mother’s operation.
• Monologue Snippet: “No more roaches that come to sleep with you at night. I want big windows so our house is filled with light, lots of light with a view of the ocean, so my mom can go to the beach and laugh with the dolphins and get tan whenever she wants.” ~Chester
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Dust in Our Eyes

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Dean
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Dean talks about taking risks in life in order to follow one’s purpose and live with your onward individual meaning.
• Monologue Snippet: “I mean, how many people do we know have fit that lifestyle? Right? And it’s like, then what?? What comes next? You raise your kids and they too will go to school and follow the same patterns, you retire, get old hopefully and turn to dust…that’s it. That stuff scares me.” ~Dean
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See Me

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Alina
• 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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When We Imagine

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jesse
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Jesse wants Felix to get a car so they can go for long rides and have fun.
• Monologue Snippet: “When I have the right match, it gives me relief, like, to figure out what’s missing. I like to find the other half of things. Nothing is whole, right?” ~Jesse
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Better Left Unsaid

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Sal
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Sal admits to his best friend that he wishes he had a family like his instead of the family he has.
• Monologue Snippet: “Unless I was an accident. Probably was, even though when I asked my mom she said I wasn’t. But I don’t buy that crap.” ~Sal
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Mind Trick

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Female/Male
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: This character battles with self-esteem and how people view them.
• 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?” ~Any
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