Acting Plays for Performing Arts School Students

Acting Plays for Performing Arts School Students helps actors find published play scripts for drama school programs.

You may be auditioning or already enrolled in a school for drama, and are in need of finding new Published Plays.

What are some good acting plays for performing arts students?

Monologue Blogger has a significant database of modern plays you may use as a performing arts student.

Growing Concerns

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Heather
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Heather reinstates that she and her husband must do everything in their power to make sure their daughter has the bet chance at living life.
• Monologue Snippet: “There isn’t a single day that goes by without finding myself trying to wake up from some delusional stare, imagining Rene being alive and well, happy and experiencing all the things life had to offer her” ~Heather
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Come With Me, Back Home

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Tina
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Tina recounts her ‘war stories’ with her son while drunk at a pub.
• Monologue Snippet: “My father taught me so well I used to kick the sh’t out of all those dirty boys back in high school. They never saw me coming. Bah! Right to the nose. Bah! Right to the eye. They didn’t nickname me Tough Tina for nothing.” ~Tina
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Down For The Cause

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Joselly
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Joselly complains to her boss about how working so hard has been negatively impacting her health.
• Monologue Snippet: “I’m all for what you’re doing, I totally have your back and you know that, but it’s getting me sick…I’m literally, physically getting sick from how hard we’re grinding.” ~Joselly
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Pressed Against The Road

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Betsy
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Betsy talks to her daughter by giving her love and support to be who she truly needs to be in life.
• Monologue Snippet: “I mean I got to experience giving birth and I wouldn’t change that or having you for the world…but I was ignoring who I was, I kept pushing those feelings down, till that day happened…” ~Betsy
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Drenched To The Bone

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Miles
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Miles unexpectedly arrives at his ex-girlfriend’s apartment in order to see her because he misses her so much.
• Monologue Snippet: “I don’t think I’d be as good to me as you are to me if I were you looking at me…am I making sense?” ~Miles
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Dragonfly Whispers

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Flora
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Flora continues hearing sounds she describes as dragonflies coming from behind her kitchen wall.
• Monologue Snippet: “Hopefully, it’d get the point, hopefully it’d tell all of them to stop bothering us and let us be for a while…we deserve our own inner peace, don’t we?” ~Flora
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Honey Comes From Bees

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Lora
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Lora talks with her eldest son Seamus about how she plans to rehabilitate his brother Earl through love.
• Monologue Snippet: “What did you expect to find here? I warned you. I told you. It’s better to have him the way he is now than to not have him at all. (beat) What they did to my boy…they broke him…” ~Lora
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At The End of the Driveway

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Margaret
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Margaret encounters her ex-boyfriend who is out of prison and wants to see their son Charlie.
• Monologue Snippet: “You was gone even before you was locked up and gone. Ain’t never paid no price.” ~Margaret
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The Notes

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Lucas
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Lucas has been brought in by Mr. Chestnut to discuss if he had received and read through the notes,  and if he is willing to accept the necessary changes.
• Monologue Snippet: “The adjustments suggested will morph me into something less coherent, perhaps unrecognizable, in what I believe would be an absolute decline in my purpose.” ~Lucas
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Along With You

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Tilly
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Tilly has finally found the courage to leave town and while walking to the bus station she bumps into Gerard who desires to run away with her.
• Monologue Snippet: “I mean, I did dress up, like going away sort of dress up, I think. I mean, there’s a certain kind of clothing one wears when leaving town, right?” ~Tilly
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One Way Road

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Pedro
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Pedro visits his local bar for a pint in order to cope with his problems.  While there, he has a conversation with his friend Babs who is also dealing with disturbing issues.
• Monologue Snippet: “You know, I’ve been dealing with enough sh’t in my life and now I gotta think about you killing yourself one day.” ~Pedro
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True Blue Boy

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Abilene
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Abilene begs for the life of her son as a last chance effort to save his life.
• Monologue Snippet: “If you take me to see Miguel, at least I know he’ll hear me out. Any man is gonna hear a pleading mother out.” ~Abilene
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Chain of Heredity

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Gregory
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Gregory has come to the painful realization that he never did enough to build his relationship with his daughter.
• Monologue Snippet: “We can’t make up for lost time, can we? We can’t. Time is a cruel teacher and it always gets the last laugh.” ~Gregory
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Lost Against The Alley

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Buck
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Buck is trying to figure out a way to avoid his job interview because he feels that it’s pointless to even try going. His girlfriend Orla has a different point of view.
• Monologue Snippet: “I told you, there’s these scouts that hit you up on your profile, sending you a message, making you feel special, when all they’re doing is going through the motions to secure their own job.” ~Buck
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Steady Steel Blues

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Herschel
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Harla and Herschel are traveling thieves who get in over their head when Herschel commits a crime far beyond what they ever imagined possible.
• Monologue Snippet: “With time, you can change the past; you can make it whatever you want it to be; it doesn’t own you; you can change it, it isn’t constant.” ~Herschel
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Eleven Seconds

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Kelly
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Kelly visits Steve to talk about their son Henry and why it’s been months since he last spent time with him.
• Monologue Snippet: “What if he needs me? I mean, he needs me, make no mistake, but what if he needs me and I’m not there in time?” ~Kelly
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Natural Tendency

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Romella
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Romella turns to her most trusted confidant in order to rationalize her thoughts about the closeness or lack thereof, she has with her son.. 
• Monologue Snippet: “Oh Hammerstead, let’s be honest. You are more family than that young man will ever be to me. It’s a sense of duty, my duty, as his mother, to give him what he needs, even though he doesn’t deserve one bit of any of my hard earned money. Am I right?” ~Romella
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Isolated Romance

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Victor
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Victor is having a difficult time handling his newfound fame as a writer, which leads him into further turmoil with his best friend Samantha.
• Monologue Snippet: “I don’t want people pulling my arm for a photo and screaming my name. I just want to do my work.” ~Victor
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Roads and Trenches

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Ron
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Ron shows up unexpectedly at Dave and Sydney’s place in order to make up for his negative reaction to their engagement announcement the night before.
• Monologue Snippet: “Now, I know Dave, you already gave Sydney her engagement ring and all, and it’s pretty, but I have something – a favor – a meaningful favor to ask the both of you.” ~Ron
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