20 Best Performing Monologues from Plays

Here’s 20 Best Performing Monologues from Plays for actors.  You will find a collection of one-act plays for teens or adults in comedy/drama.

We’ve received solid feedback from our performing arts community and have compiled a list of some of our monologues from published plays.

Many of the monologues provided here have been used for competitions, drama school auditions, and even short film projects.

20 Best Performing Monologues from Plays

Coffee Table

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Melanie
• 1-minute monologue
• Melanie claims to be cure and wishes to be released from the asylum, but the doctor disagrees.

To The Lake

• Genre: Drama / Family Drama
• Character: Barb
• 2-minute monologue
• When asked how her daughter died, Barb reveals the horrific truth of how she lost her daughter.

You Wouldn’t Believe Ralphy

• Genre: Comedy
• Character: Ralphy
• 1-2 minute monologue
• Ralphy tries to explain to Donnie that a crocodile ate the money he woes him.

Sacred Land

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Mr. Craggsdale
• 1-minute monologue
• Mr. Craggsdale has witnessed life-changing traumatic events that he tries to explain to a friend.

Smile Pretty, Alice

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Anita
• 1-minute monologue
• Anita sticks her nose in her neighbors business because she’s been observing an affair.

Fungus Among Us

• Genre: Comedy
• Characters: Alexa
• 1-2 minute monologue
• Alexa goes on a rant with her roommate for never cleaning out the moldy items inside the refrigerator.

Let The World See Us

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Simon
• 1-minute monologue
• Simon doesn’t wish to continue working on his business and is trying to come to terms with whether or not he should sell it.

Big Time

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Maddock
• 1-minute monologue
• Maddock’s dream was to become a professional boxer but getting caught up in the underworld syndicate of fighting prevented him from reaching his deep desire.

Dox Anxiety

• Genre: Comedy
• Character: Zara
• 1-2 minute monologue
• When Zara agrees to watch her neighbor’s dog everything quickly goes wrong.

Sleepless Nights

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Carlotta
• 1-minute monologue
• Carlotta regrets not following her dreams and takes it out on her mother for never emotionally supporting her.

Darling Face

• Genre: Comedy
• Character: Beverly
• 1-2 minute monologue
• Beverly narrowly escaped getting eaten by a bear and spills her guts to her husband about how she survived.

Over The Moon

• Genre: Comedy
• Character: Lucia
• 1-minute monologue
• Lucia imagines that she has finally found the man of her dreams but the trouble is that he’s from a different time period.

Wasted Talent

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Donnie
• 1-2 minute monologue
• Donnie regrets losing one of his closest friends and bandmates to suicide and wishes he would have done something different to prevent his death.

Dark Place

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Jeffrey
• 2 minute monologue
• Jeffrey receives a visitation rom a friend after he tried to kill someone.

Checking In

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Rob
• 1-2 minute monologue
• Rob has never met his biological father and meets him for the first time.

Land of the Forgotten

• Genre: Drama
• Character: George
• 1-2 minute monologue
• George and Kim are two strangers that start a conversation that sheds light on life.

Across the Face

• Genre: Comedy
• Character: Bobby
• 1-minute monologue
• Bobby thinks he can direct a play he’s producing better than the director.

Grace Period

• Genre: Comedy
• Character: Ralphy
• 1-minute monologue
• During a global pandemic two friends don’t see eye to eye when it comes to work.

Moment’s Notice

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Barbara
• 2-minute monologue
• Barbara is preparing herself to go on stage for a show but doesn’t believe she is ready to go on.

Catching Summer

• Genre: Seriocomedy
• Character: Pam
• 2-minute monologue
• Pam is disappointed in her boyfriend for never standing up to his fears.