Free Collection of Original Monologues for Teens

Free Collection of Original Monologues for Teens offers a powerful compilation of teen monologues for drama school auditions and performance.

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Teen plays, monologues, and scenes are regularly published on Monologue Blogger. Find hundreds of dramatic or comedic monologues for acting practice.

With a Broken Wing

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Bob
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Bob meets Lea’s family for the first time before their date, but soon discovers that she is going to the prom with someone else.
• Monologue Snippet: “Who am I to judge or have a say? It’s not like we can’t still dance, right Lea? We can still dance together” ~Bob
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Typical Teen

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Shadira
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Shadira and her Mother talk about more than just the pressures of Shadira’s skating commitments.
• Monologue Snippet: “I get that this is what I want and I’ve brought this upon myself. You are right, this is what I want but you can’t continue to burden me with things you need me to do for you.” ~Shadira
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Becky’s Night Out

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Becky
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Becky is disappointed in how her parents behaved when she introduced them to a guy she’s dating.
• Monologue Snippet: “Becky vents to her parents about how cruel they are for making fun of her date.” ~Becky
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Checking In

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Rob
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Rob finds his real father not to make amends but to lash out at him for all the years he’s been ignored.
• Monologue Snippet: “Thank you for showing me how NOT to be in my life. Thank you for giving me the example I needed to make an honest living, to at least treat people with a bit of dignity, and knowing how to be aware of my own integrity.” ~Rob
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Little Creatures

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Abby
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Abby makes puppets from scratch that have a life of their own and provide for her friendships that her mother begins to worry about. 
• Monologue Snippet: “Just once I wish for my mother to take an interest in what I’m doing. It would mean so much to me, but I don’t think that fantasy will ever come true.” ~Abby
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You Were Never There

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Faye
• Duration: 1-2 -minute monologue
• Description: Faye’s dad shows up at her job trying to develop a better relationship with her.
• Monologue Snippet: “Making me feel like I’m supposed to pretend the past never existed. I can’t start that way! I can’t act like that!” ~Faye
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Siren in the Night

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Crystal
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Crystal is a teen living on the streets till one day she may get help from her best friend’s dad.
• Monologue Snippet: “Maybe I’m supposed to have this horrible f’n life. You know, some people have yachts and mansions as if it’s expected.” ~Crystal
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Dust in Our Eyes

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Dean
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Dean reaches out to his friend with a lifeline in order to help her find a deeper meaning in her life.
• Monologue Snippet: “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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Those Days Are Over

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Marsha
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Marsha confronts her sister about how she needs to stop seeking family attention by doing bad things.
• Monologue Snippet: “Sure enough, you created a controversy over the fact that I was having a laugh with one of my friends. It bothers you. My happiness bothers you.” ~Marsha
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Sliver of Sincerity

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Lenora
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Lenora wishes her sister would be more genuine and caring, instead of needy and selfish.
• Monologue Snippet: “So closed off from reality.  You never see anyone else around you, never take the time to move outside of yourself and actually care for another living soul.” ~Lenora
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More Ways Than One

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Porterfield
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Porterfield has spent years building up a reputation of being a bad kid in school, however, his school principal wants to give him an opportunity to prove himself.
• Monologue Snippet: “I’ve tried, I’ve tried to show other sides of myself but I’m never looked at differently, it’s like a curse I can’t break and I guess I’ve sort of accepted the fact that I am this loser, troublemaker or whatever you want to call me, I’ve grown to become this character from everyone’s mind because it makes everyone happy.” ~Porterfield
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Love Is A Strong Word

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Mischa
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Mischa is a first year university student who wants to cut ties with her boyfriend in order to live out her college experience.
• Monologue Snippet: “Before you answer that…my feelings for you haven’t changed…if anything, I love you even more…but, I don’t want to neglect my opportunities while I have them.” ~Mischa
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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: “My head was pounding, and I was getting so worked up that I felt the blood rise to my neck. I was losing my patience, but then I remembered Leon’s tattoo, and I instantly calmed down.” ~Riza
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Treat Me Nice

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Corinne
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Corinne doesn’t get along with her mother.  They live together.  Just the two of them.  They are masters at pushing one another’s buttons.
• Monologue Snippet: “I’m not, you know, some worker that you’ve hired to cook and clean.  I am your daughter.  I don’t feel like I’m your daughter, but I am, I guess.” ~Corinne
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Other Side of the Chasm

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Chad
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Although Chad goes on like he enjoys being alone, deep down he is hurting.
• 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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Salt and Stone

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jena
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Jena loves a guy her family hates, and her involvement is much more serious than her family realizes.
• Monologue Snippet: “He’s the first guy I ever truly cared for, Ricky’s nothing like a Riley, he does none of the stuff his uncles and cousins do. ” ~Jena
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Day In, Day Out

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Scarlet
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Scarlet loves her mother, but is in constant conflict with her, but when they talk about cooking, a doorway for a better relationship may have been opened.
• Monologue Snippet: “Why can’t I ever speak to you without all the drama? And then you wonder why I always stay silent; it’s ’cause you act like this…you get all intense about everything, and so I seize up. I give up on telling you anything.” ~Scarlet
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Rupert’s Reverie

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Rupert
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Aunt Tabitha learns that her nephew Rupert and sister Marla have an entirely different life than when she last saw them in person.
• Monologue Snippet: “I’m considered average, not because I lack potential, but because striving for more raises the red flags, it seems.” ~Rupert
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The Way Home

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jasmine
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Jasmine tries to convince her parents that she is ready to move out and live on her own.
• Monologue Snippet: “I just, I need my freedom. I need time, time to think and be in my own thoughts with things, I want to be my own person, Mom.” ~Jasmine
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Dark Side of My Moon

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jobe
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Jobe is a rising basketball athlete who will stop at nothing to win a game of basketball.
• Monologue Snippet: “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” ~Jobe
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Negative Energy

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Rose
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Gina asks her roommate Rose if her sister Meagan can live with them temporarily things get heated, especially when Meagan shows up at their front door.   
• Monologue Snippet: “I’m exhausted and have no strength to do anything for myself that pleases me. I have to work up the positive energy inside myself to get out of whatever crappy state of mind you put me in to begin with. I don’t want to do this anymore.” ~Rose
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