10 Short Scenes for Auditions

Uncover 10 short audition scenes perfect for actors, creators, and teachers to use in classes, workshops, or audition practice. Ideal for performing arts!

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10 Short Scenes for Auditions

Never in a million years did I think you’d be an actress.

  • Genre: Drama
  • Characters: Kimmie, Jarla
  • Scene from the play Lost and Found.
  • After their friend Tommy died, two friends try to figure out the meaning of their own lives.

You ever listen to the blues?

  • Genre: Drama
  • Characters: Kyle, Scarlet
  • Scene from the play Thin Ice
  • A friendship is born from theses two students stuck in detention.

How did you find me?

  • Genre: Drama
  • Characters: Rob, Billy
  • Scene from the play Checking In
  • A father and son reunite for the first time in over sixteen years.

Did you study for the Shakespeare exam?

  • Genre: Drama
  • Charactesr: Dean, Paula
  • Scene from the play Dust in Our Eyes
  • Dean gives fruitful advice to his best friend Paula when he’s notices she’s been down on herself.

Our town is the pits.

  • Genre: Drama
  • Characters: Dawn, Chizel
  • Scene from the play Acid Taste
  • Three friends go hang out lakeside and one of them gets dared to swim in the toxic lake nearby.

What is it with you, huh?

  • Genre: Drama
  • Characters: Burt, Aggie
  • Scene from the play Rose to Ash
  • An uncle who never did a good job raising his niece and her terrible reaction to her upbringing.

I’ve decided to stay alone ever since.

  • Genre: Drama
  • Characters: Matt, Ginger
  • Scene from the play Far Enough
  • Matt avoided a situation to help someone that he has come to regret.

Can I make a confession?

  • Genre: Drama
  • Characters: Crystal, Bud
  • Scene from Siren in the Night
  • A teen has been living on the streets and runs into her old friend’s father by chance.

It’s a quiet place to chat.

  • Genre: Comedy
  • Characters: Kendra, Darla
  • Scene from Don’t Leave Me Without Muffin
  • Kendra aspires to live a normal life despite her breathing condition but her overbearing mother doesn’t make her goals easy.

Does he imagine I am having an affair?

  • Genre: Drama
  • Characters: Littia, Brian
  • Scene from White-Tailed Spider
  • Littia confronts the man who has been secretly spying on her in order to put an end to it once and for all.
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