20 Powerful Drama Monologues for Teenage Guys

20 Powerful Drama Monologues for Teenage Guys offers young actors 20 monologues from published plays to be used for auditions.

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Finding the right teen monologue from a play is a task any young actor should take seriously. Your search becomes one of the first steps alongside making your creative choices for the work you create as an artist.

It’s important to conduct your monologue search with an open mind in order to allow first impressions of the material hit you from an emotional context.

When you stumble upon a work that stimulates your heart, you will instantly know you are getting closer to working on something key for your own being. It’s good to follow such impulses because it develops your confidence in making bold creative choices with your work.

Our collection of 20 powerful drama monologues for teenage guys supports that creative search and reaches out to helping you trust your instincts. 

The Power of Teen Monologues from Published Plays

Why does finding a monologue from a play matter?

• It helps you build story.
• You get to absorb a deeper sense of the other characters in the scripts orbit.
• You can make stronger choices because you will be able to place things in a stronger context for the imaginary circumstances set forth by the writer.

See Me As A Stranger

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Gordy
• Length: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Gordy has experienced a trance-like state that brings him back to a self he wishes to improve.
• Excerpt: “I got confused. I was walkin’ along the tracks and all of a sudden I blanked out, like, I didn’t know who I was, where I was, I didn’t know what I was doin’, where I was goin’ or comin’ from…” [Read full monologue]

Checking In

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Rob
• Length: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Rob has recently lost his mother and before she passed he promised her he would find his biological father and make amends.
• Excerpt: “I want you to know that I think you’re a piece of sh’t. You were never a man. You f’kn ditched us for your own selfish needs and I hate you for it. I was hoping you’d be dead. The only reason why I came this way was for the promise I gave my mother…she was the most beautiful, kindhearted, loving human being a person could ever be lucky enough to know. She raised me. ” [Read full monologue]

More Ways Than One

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Porterfield
• Length: 2-minute monologue
• Description: The school troublemaker is in the principal’s office again but reveals a different side to himself that shows his heartfelt and vulnerable side.
• Excerpt: “Mr. Agnon…um…the things that I deal with everyday, it seems to always be happening to me and how do I know when it’s big enough for me to get you. I don’t want to bother you over every little thing that happens to me because then I think you will get angry at me as if it’s my fault and I know, I know I’m no angel” [Read full monologue]

No Choice

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Justin
• Length: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Justin has decided to tell his best friend that he has feelings for his sister and that he hopes it won’t get in the way of their friendship.
• Excerpt: “I don’t care anymore Judy. It’s been too long since I’ve felt this way and I know you’ve felt it too. We can’t hide it anymore, he’s just gonna have to deal with it. Our parents will have to deal with it too. I know they ain’t gonna be happy with the idea. It’s not like they didn’t know about us anyway, you’re always askin’ ’bout me and my Mom has hinted a few times” [Read full monologue]

Rupert’s Reverie

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Rupert
• Length: 1-minute monologue
• Description: After years have passed, Rupert visits his Auntie and he isn’t what she had expected at all.
• Excerpt: “I’ve always loved the stars. The way they glimmer at night as if they are talking to you, trying to say something we aren’t capable of hearing. I had a science teacher who was a false prophet. I kept catching mistakes in his teachings. He couldn’t get the facts straight and would never correct himself.” [Read full monologue]

Thin Ice

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Kyle
• Length: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Kyle compares his upbringing in Queens compared to living in a new neighborhood further from the city.
• Excerpt: “People out here seem too busy with their own lives. Nobody really cares to take any interest in me and I don’t blame them. I’m the new kid, right? And whenever someone does have anything to say to me it’s always some dumb random question like, ‘Are there a lot of shootings in Queens?’” [Read full monologue]

Please Forgive Me…

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Jesse
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Description: Jesse’s home life is affecting how he treats his friends and especially his girlfriend and he tries his best to apologize for his actions.
• Excerpt: ” I didn’t mean to make you feel insignificant. I feel so horrible about it that I would rather cut off my arm but it wouldn’t even come close to how I feel about it all. I didn’t mean to make you cry and get you upset, Jule.” [Read full monologue]

Dark Side of My Moon

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Jobe
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Description: Jobe confesses to his brother how far he goes within himself when it comes to fierce competition in sports.
• Excerpt: “There’s a dark side of my brain.  I have these thoughts sometimes that aren’t good.  I don’t want anyone else to succeed but me…well, I shouldn’t say it that way…I don’t mind if people succeed” [Read full monologue]

Mind Trick

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Male
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Description: Mind Trick examines what it’s like to always feel like you are on the outside of things.
• Excerpt: “Sometimes I feel like I’m not normal…what is normal anyway, right?  I guess, like everyone else.  I get stupid thoughts sometimes.  I keep them to myself because I don’t want anyone thinking I’m a weirdo.  I wonder if everyone gets strange thoughts but just don’t want to admit it.” [Read full monologue]

Other Side of the Chasm

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Chad
• Length: 1-2 minute monologue
• Description: Chad has never felt like he could fit in with his other schoolmates, except for his one friend, he doesn’t feel as if he belongs.
• Excerpt: “You know that party Russel had last week? The one I wasn’t invited to…I walked over to his house cause I was curious, I wanted to see it with my own two eyes, what it was like to be in with the crowd. I snuck in to the side of the house, past the bushes.” [Read full monologue]

Dust In Our Eyes

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Dean
• Length: 1-2 – minute monologue
• Description: Dean shares his own life experiences and goals in order to inspire his best friend Paula feel better about her own life’s situation.
• Excerpt: “You gotta just stay true to yourself. This world, it almost seems that it wants to fit us into some sort of ABC path. I don’t know about you but growing up and living life to pay my bills is a real hard way to live. I wanna live with purpose, that’s what I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. I wanna do things that matter to me and others.” [Read full monologue]

Better Left Unsaid

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Sal
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Description: Sal comes from a difficult home and he turns to his friend for help because he feels like his friend has what he calls a normal family life.
• Excerpt: “What do you mean us, Riggs? It’s me. ME! Me and my lousy life. Don’t even know why I was born. I mean, I never got that…why have kids if you’re gonna treat them so bad…right?” [Read full monologue]

Treat Me Different

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Marshall
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Description: Marshall is undergoing a difficult time in his life because he isn’t entirely sure about his identity.
• Excerpt: “When you ever gonna be there for me the way I need you to be there for me? I can never talk to you cause you never really listen to what it is I’m trying to say. I’m trapped!” [Read full monologue]

High Places

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Harrison
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Description: Harrison has fallen for a girl at his college only to find out that she doesn’t go to his school and works in the worst part of town.
• Excerpt: “Not everything is always what it seems, Tiffany. More than half my friends are suicidal, popping pills to get through the day, hating themselves because they’re not given the time to discover who they wanna be.” [Read full monologue]

Peanuts on the Dollar

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Chester
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Description: Chester is so stressed out with committing a crime he truly doesn’t wish to commit in order to get the money he needs to save his mother’s life for an operation she needs.
• Excerpt: “You know what I’m worryin’ ’bout? Feeding my mom’s. Taking care of my mom’s. Yeah? Who’s gonna pay for her medicine? Who? You? How she gonna make that surgery she needs? Eh? I gotta see her scream in pain each night?” [Read full monologue]

The Outcome of Design

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jeffrey
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Description: Jeffrey and his friend Gesebel discuss the mystery of life and what they believe it all means.
• Excerpt: “I’m not saying I believe it, I only think about it from time to time. I see the patterns, in life. I see how humanity flows in and out of itself, like breathing and I see the magic, I can see the massive design.” [Read full monologue]

Far Enough

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Matt
• Length: 2- minute monologue
• Description: Matt believes he potentially witnessed something bad that took place to a student but isn’t confident about standing up for what he believes to be right.
• Excerpt: “Felix did something that can put him in jail, Ma…something bad and…the other fellas went along with it, but I didn’t, but, I’m not proud of myself for runnin’…I could have done something to help or to prevent the situation from gettin’ outta hand” [Read full monologue]

Waste of Time

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Byron
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Description: Byron is a smart young teen who already has a lucrative business he started but feels that school is getting in the way of his success.
• Excerpt: “I can’t talk to either of you without insults or threats. This is my life and I should be able to live it how I want to live it. I hate school! I don’t care about geometry or biology or all the other crap they are trying to cram into my brain. It’s useless information. All I’m learning is how to temporarily memorize stuff I have no interest in, in order to pass tests!” [Read full monologue]

Far and Away

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Eddie
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Description: Eddie tells his mother how his friend Anton has been there for him since his dad died.
• Excerpt: “Since Dad passed, he’s the only friend that’s really looked out for me. You know, the only one who cares. My other friends… they just keep on living, but Anton, he’s aware; he says things that I know mean something.” [Read full monologue]

Piper’s Coming Home

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jerome
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Description: Jerome isn’t happy with his live in friend Benny about the fact that he won’t give up his room for Piper.
• Excerpt: “I’m not siding with anybody, but Piper had it bad, man, you know that. It will give her comfort to feel like she wasn’t disposed of, right? She’ll be able to come back to what she knows and, I don’t know, feel like we all feel when we’re here…when things are right with us all.” [Read full monologue]

Using Teen Monologues from Published Plays to Expand Your Range

Teen monologues are an important training tool that can help you grow as an actor by some of the following ways:

• Emotional shifts and balances.
• Deepening your understanding of character.
• Understanding and breaking down the text from a script.
• Learning how to become more expressive through behavior.
• Developing a stronger sense of “in the now” through spontaneity.
• Truly hearing what the other character is saying to you in the scene.

Looking for More Male Teen Monologues?

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