Powerful monologues are an essential tool for the professional actor. You need short, impacting pieces that leave your auditor wanting more. More Monologues that Land Roles will give you seventy-five monologues that fit the bill. Included in this volume, is a medley of dramatic and comic pieces that can pack a powerful punch! Whether you are five, fifteen, thirty-five or seventy-five, it's an amazing experience to be able to go into an audition and lay out a performance that will blow them away!

Professional actors, who have been in the business for any number of years, have discovered the importance of having an array of strong one minute long monologues within their acting arsenal. Having a variety of impacting monologues, honed and ready to roll, will give you the assurance that no matter what the nature of the role you're shooting for, you also have a matching audition piece. These monologues have been test-driven by acting coaches in several large cities and have elicited multi-layered emotions from the actors who have used them and the agents and directors who have experienced them. So, take your time, read them all, find the right ones and get to work. Wrap yourselves around them, take them to heart, learn them inside and out, feel them in your bones, sense them with all your being and go land those roles!

The first and only book where ALL of the AUDITION MONOLOGUES are ACTIVE! Every performance piece has been carefully crafted so the characters express an immediate need to one invisible partner in the present moment. These 76 original monologues are the kind that actors and teachers are looking for and casting directors in today's market place want to hear. The monologues are 45-120 seconds in length, conform to the standards espoused by casting professionals concerning appropriate language usage and subject matter, and are acceptable to perform at professional auditions, colleges, high schools, and competitions. The book also includes a section on how to choose an active monologue that is right for you and your type. Are you tired of buying monologue books with the hopes of finding one good piece out of a handful that are actually active? Look no further. "Active Monologues That Directors Want to Hear" is the book for you! A key objective of this book series is to provide actors and teachers easy access to appropriate active pieces for auditions and class work. To this end, Bell Crandall Publishing seeks talented writers to submit two of their best active monologues for an opportunity to have their work published in a future volume. See page 92 for details.

In professional and student theater alike, a good monlogue can often mean the difference between a "Thank you . . . Next!" and a call-back. But sometimes it's hard for an aspiring actor to find the absolutely right audition piece that suits his or her personal style, type or age group. Monologues For Young Actors is a unique and invaluable collection of dramatic speeches from some of the world's greatest plays -- chosen specifically for actors in their teens and early twenties. Whether you're looking for something comedic or tragic, contemporary or classic, unorthodox or naturalistic, this superb compilation has the monologue you need -- an indispensible tool to help you hone you craft . . . and land that role.

The love lives of two cyclists are contrasted as one fights to save his marriage while the other avoids commitment. Background music. 9 scenes, 2 men, 1 woman, 1 exterior.

(Applause Acting Series). Never before has a monologue book been written completely by people who are actually funny for a living. This incredibly hysterical, cutting-edge collection of monologues will give an actress the extra bang she needs to land the perfect comedic role. Women's Comedic Monologues features 60 monologues by writers and comics who have written for or performed on Chelsea Lately , Carson Daly , The Tonight Show , Last Comic Standing , Comedy Central Stage, and many more. This book is the answer to the comedic monologue needs of female actors everywhere!

TEEN BOYS' COMEDIC MONOLOGUES THAT ARE ACTUALLY FUNNY

This new collection by one of America’s premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists includes 100 monologues from his acclaimed plays and solo shows including: Drinking in America; Men Inside; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and more. Also included are additional pieces from Talk Radio and Notes from Underground.

Covering the full scope of Western drama, from the ancient Greeks to the 20th century, this volume contains 119 monologues written for older actors.