25 Free Teen Girl Monologues for Auditions (Funny & Dramatic)

Discover 25 free teen girl monologues for auditions featuring themes of family, friendship, love, career aspirations, and life’s journey.

For a deeper selection of teen monologues from contemporary plays, visit Monologues for Teenage Girls

Where can I find free teen monologues from play scripts?

Monologue Blogger is a performing arts resource that has been around since 2006 and has a dedicated section of free monologues for teenagers from published play scripts.

Here are a few different types of teen monologues to explore below:

Audition-Friendly Teen Monologues: : 1–2 minutes long, Age-appropriate, Emotionally engaging, Easy to perform without props

Contemporary Teen Monologues: Texting and social media, school pressure, relationships, online friendships, current social issues

Dramatic Teen Monologues: Family conflict, loss or grief, bullying, identity struggles, mental health challenges, friendship breakups

Comedic Teen Monologues: Awkward school situations, embarrassing crushes, sibling rivalries, over-the-top complaints

Two Shades Away

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Melanie
  • Duration: 1-minute monologue
  • Description: At some point in her life, Melanie went off track and ever since she’s been trying to find her true calling.
  • Monologue Snippet: “You ever feel like you are two shades away from the life you’re supposed to be living?” ~Melanie
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One-Way Conversation

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Bella
  • Duration: 1-minute monologue
  • Description: Bella goes head to head with her mother over how she feels neglected when it comes to her mother showing her any support for her dreams.
  • Monologue Snippet: “You don’t understand, you don’t ever hear what I’m trying to say to you. It’s always a one-way conversation.” ~Bella
  • [Read Full Monologue]

Don’t Leave Me Without Muffin

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Ginger
  • Duration: 2-minute monologue
  • Description: A sad story about a mother and daughter going their separate ways in life.
  • Monologue Snippet: “All those times I had no choice but to walk into town and search through garbage containers and dumpsters behind McDonalds, just so I could eat.” ~Ginger
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Fungus Among Us

  • Genre: Comedy
  • Character: Alexa
  • Duration: 2-minute monologue
  • Description: Alexa has reached the end of her patience when it comes to her roommate being such a slob.
  • Monologue Snippet: “Look at this stuff. Look at this! Macaroni and Cheese that has been in here three Macaroni and Cheeses ago!” ~Alexa
  • [Read Full Monologue]

Soft Song

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Tina
  • Duration: 1-minute monologue
  • Description: Tina gets challenged by her mother regarding attending her Grandmother’s birthday party.
  • Monologue Snippet: “You act like I don’t care or that I wish she was dead” ~Tina
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Them Candles

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Kendra
  • Duration: 1-minute monologue
  • Description: Kendra tries to get her mother to understand why she deserves the right to go out on a date.
  • Monologue Snippet: “There ain’t nothin’ sadder in life than to die with regret and I damn well promise this disease that I ain’t goin’ till the sun comes up!” ~Kendra
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Whispers of Trees

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Shelly
  • Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
  • Description: Shelly gives her boyfriend support to make him feel encouraged toward his own ambitions.
  • Monologue Snippet: “…We all just tryna find our way right now, if you wanna know what I think, I think your bro grew up too soon, he’s one of them kids that get successful too early and doesn’t know what the hell to do with the rest of life, you know?” ~Shelly
  • [Read Full Monologue]

You Were Never There

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Faye
  • Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
  • Description: Faye has the most difficult time accepting her father’s desire to make amends with her in order to improve their disastrous relationship.
  • Monologue Snippet: “Why’d it take you so long to try and make things right?” ~Faye
  • [Read Full Monologue]

True Calling

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Charla
  • Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
  • Description: Charla shares her own personal experience with her father in order to help her friend gain courage.
  • Monologue Snippet: “Do you? Do you really get me. That man drank himself blind every single night because he walked away from what he loved most. I don’t blame him.” ~Charla
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Fallen Money

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Ruby
  • Duration: 1-minute monologue
  • Description: Ruby has been secretly contemplating freedom and thinks she has found it by way of Paul
  • Monologue Snippet: “We won’t have to do this alone, and that counts. I don’t think I could do this on my own.” ~Ruby
  • [Read Full Monologue]

Midsummer Night

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Chanade
  • Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
  • Description: Charade is desperate for help in order to save her life and hopes that her best friend will be her lifeline.
  • Monologue Snippet: “Well, there isn’t anything good about any of that. I much rather trade my life with someone less fortunate, with someone who’s broke and struggles, than have anything I want with the snap of my fingers.” ~Chanade
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Rough Around The Edges

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Shelly
  • Duration: 1-minute monologue
  • Description: Shelly talks to her boyfriend about how much she misses her mother.
  • Monologue Snippet: “I have ta have some level of privacy in my life or I won’t feel like myself.” ~Shelly
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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: “Like if we take our point of view about something that makes us angry as hell, if we flip our perspective on it, see it from the opposite side, we might realize all this negative feeling we have inside of us, is all for nothing.” ~Riza
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For All We’ve Got

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Luna
  • Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
  • Description: Tash explains why she needs the chance to leave to go to New York City for what she believes is a better life.
  • Monologue Snippet: “A person deserves a chance, even if it’s only a single chance at something greater than themselves.” ~Tash
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Gone Before You Left

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Tash
  • Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
  • Description: Luna talks to her friend about how she wishes she had a father figure in her life.
  • Monologue Snippet: “I just wonder what it woulda been like to know him, what kinda advice he’d give–like, what if he coulda been the kind of father that I’d share a deli coffee and a mornin’ walk with?” ~Luna
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The Bear

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Tiffany
  • Duration: 1-minute monologue
  • Description: Tiffany is in the habit of always putting others first even at her own expense.
  • Monologue Snippet: “The battles tire me. All these outside forces that get in the way of what I’m always trying to do.” ~Tiffany
  • [Read Full Monologue]

Covering Distance

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Judy
  • Duration: 1-minute monologue
  • Description: Runaway teen Judy confesses to a stranger her ambitions to be a musician.
  • Monologue Snippet: “Wasn’t Mozart composin’ music since he was a child?” ~Judy
  • [Read Full Monologue]

Nothing Matters

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Amber
  • Duration: 1-minute monologue
  • Description: As awkward as Amber can be, she communicates with honesty and truth.
  • Monologue Snippet: “I believe it helps to not know someone too well or not know them at all and just pour your heart out and walk away.” ~Amber
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Becky’s Night Out

  • Genre: Serio-Comedy
  • Character: Becky
  • Duration: 1-minute monologue
  • Description: Becky comes down on her parents for making fun of the guy who is taking her out on a first date.
  • Monologue Snippet: “You’re both so superficial, it’s lame. Neither of you give a damn about my feelings, let alone Gino’s. All because he has big ears? Who cares?” ~Gino
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See Me

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Alina
  • Duration: 1-minute monologue
  • Description: Alina is saddened by the fact that no drama school is willing to accept her.
  • Monologue Snippet: “…Don’t know what more I can do, wish they knew how much I cared. I needed this, I needed it to happen, would’ve kept me out of trouble for a while, an’ at least then I’d be given some kinda guidance, you know?” ~Alina
  • [Read Full Monologue]

When We Imagine

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Jesse
  • Duration: 1-minute monologue
  • Description: Jesse wants Felix to get a car so they can go for long rides and have fun.
  • Monologue Snippet: “When I have the right match, it gives me relief, like, to figure out what’s missing. I like to find the other half of things. Nothing is whole, right?” ~Jesse
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My Side of Things

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Clara
  • Duration: 1-minute monologue
  • Description: Clara tries to meet her sister halfway in order to take a stab at improving their relationship as sisters.
  • Monologue Snippet: “Is it so hard for us to let things go and try and talk things out?” ~Clara
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Acid Taste

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Chizel
  • Duration: 1-minute monologue
  • Description: Chisel is having major second thoughts about daring a friend to swim in polluted waters.
  • Monologue Snippet: “She shouldn’t have been tested. She shouldn’t have gone swimmin’! I said this! You never listen, Dawn.” ~Chizel
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Mind Trick

  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Female/Male
  • Duration: 1-minute monologue
  • Description: This character battles with self-esteem and how people view them.
  • Monologue Snippet: “That’s as far as I want to go with it, with what I’m telling you cause it makes me feel funny discussing this but do you, honestly; do you ever—does your mind ever play tricks on you?” ~Any
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The Ghosts of Our Ancestors

  • Genre: Drama / Period Drama
  • Character: Tiara
  • Duration: 2-minute monologue
  • Description: Tiara tries to concoct a plan with her uncle in order to save their family’s estate.
  • Monologue Snippet: “Haven’t you taught me to remain independent minded? To never allow others to bring fear upon me?” ~Tiara
  • [Read Full Monologue]
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