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Suggested Acting Scenes 

Always read the entire script before performing a monologue.

20th Century Contemporary

Woody Allen
  • Don't Drink the Water
  • Play It Again Sam

Maxwell Anderson
  • The Bad Seed
  • Both Your Houses

Jean Anouilh
  • Antigone

Alan Ayckbourn
  • Absurd Person Singular
  • Bedroom Farce
  • Ernie's Incredible Illucinations

James Baldwin
  • Amen Corner
  • Blues for Miser Charlie

Alan Ball
  • Five Women Wearing the Same Dress

Amiri Baraka
  • The Dutchman
  • A Black Mass

Samuel Beckett
  • Waiting for Godot
  • Endgame
  • Happy Days

Brendan Behan
  • The Hostage

Bertolt Brecht
  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle
  • The Good Person of Szechwan
  • Mother Courage and Her Children
  • The Threepenny Opera

Alice Childress
  • Florence
  • Just a Little Simple
  • Trouble in Mind
  • Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White

Nilo Cruz
  • Anna in the Tropics
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Christopher Durang
  • Beyond Therapy
  • Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
  • The Actor's Nightmare

Dürrenmatt
  • The Visit

Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman
  • Stage Door
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Jules Feiffer
  • Little Murders
  • Feiffer's People

Brian Friel
  • Dancing at Lughnasa

Herb Gardner
  • A Thousand Clowns

William Gibson
  • The Miracle Worker

John Guare
  • House of Blue Leaves
  • Six Degrees of Separation

Athol Fugard
  • "Master Harold" ...and the boys

Lorraine Hansberry
  • A Raisin in the Sun

David Hare
  • Plenty
  • Racing Demon
  • Skylight
  • Amy's View
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Robert Harling
  • ​Steel Magnolias

Lillian Hellman
  • The Little Foxes
  • The Children's Hour
  • Toys in the Attic
  • Another Part of the Forest

Beth Henley
  • Crimes of the Heart

Israel Horovitz
  • The Indian Wants the Bronx​

Langston Hughes
  • Black Nativity
  • Jerico-Jim Crow

William Inge (Kansas playwright)
  • Dark at the Top of the Stairs
  • A Loss of Roses
  • Bus Stop
  • Picnic
  • Come Back, Little Sheba

Ionesco
  • The Bald Soprano
  • Rhinoceros

Kaufman and Hart
  • Man Who Came to Dinner
  • You Can't Take It With You
  • Once in a Lifetime

Quiara Alegría Hudes 
  • Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue
  • Water by the Spoonful

Adrienne Kennedy
  • Funnyhouse of the Negro

Sidney Kingsley
  • Detective Story
  • Men in White

Arthur Kopit
  • Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
  • Indians
  • Wings

Tony Kushner
  • Angels In America​

David Mamet
  • Glengarry Glen Ross
  • Speed-the-Plow
  • American Buffalo

James McClure
  • Laundry and Bourbon

Tarell Alvin McCraney
  • Choir Boy
  • Head of Passes
  • The Brother/Sister Plays
    • ​The Brother Size
    • In the Red and Brown Water
    • Marcus, or the Secret of Sweet

Arthur Miller
  • All My Sons
  • Death of a Salesman
  • The Crucible
  • A View from the Bridge

John Ford Noonan
  • A Couple of White Chicks Sitting Around Talking

Marsah Norman
  • 'night Mother

Lynn Nottage
  • Ruined
  • Sweat

Antoinett Nwandu
  • Pass Over
  • BREACH: a manifesto on race in America through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate
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Sean O'Casey
  • Juno and the Paycock
  • Shadow of a Gunman
  • The Plough and the Stars

Clifford Odets
  • Awake and Sing
  • Golden Boy
  • Paradise Lost
  • Rocket to the Moon
  • Waiting for Lefty

Eugene O'Neill
  • Anna Christie
  • The Iceman Cometh
  • Long Day's Journey Into Night
  • Moon for the Misbegotten

Suzan-Lori Parks
  • Topdog/Underdog
  • White Noise

Sybille Pearson
  • Sally and Marsha

Tyler Perry
  • I know I've Been Changed

John Pielmeier
  • Agnes of God

Harold Pinter
  • The Homecoming
  • The Birthday Party
  • The Dumb Waiter

J.B. Priestley
  • Time and the Conways​

Murray Schisgal
  • Luv

Peter Shafer
  • Amadeus
  • Equus
  • Lettice and Lovage
  • Black Comedy

​Ntozake Shange
  • For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf

John Patrick Shanley
  • Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
  • Doubt: A Parable
  • The Dreamer Examines His Pillow
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Irwin Shaw
  • Bury the Dead

Sam Shepard
  • Fool for Love
  • Lie of the Mind
  • Simpatico
  • True West

Martin Sherman
  • Bent

Neil Simon
  • Barefoot in the Park
  • The Odd Couple (original and female version)
  • Lost in Yonkers
  • Biloxi Blues

Bernard Slade
  • Romantic Comedy
  • Same Time, Next Year

Tom Stoppard
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
  • The Real Thing
  • The Coast of Utopia
  • Shakespeare in Love

JM Synge
  • Playboy of the Western World
  • Riders to the Sea

Renee Taylor & Joe Bologna
  • Lovers and Other Strangers
  • It Had To Be You
  • Love Allways

Luis Valdez
  • Zoot Suit

Wendy Wasserstein
  • The Heidi Chronicles
  • The Sisters Rosensweig
  • Uncommon Women and Others

Peter Weiss
  • Marat/Sade

Thorton Wilder
  • Our Town
  • The Skin of Our Teeth

Tennessee Williams
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • A Streetcar Names Desire
  • The Night of the Iguana

August Wilson
  • Fences
  • The Piano Lesson
  • Two Trains Running
  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  • Jitney
  • Seven Guitars
  • Radio Golf
  • King Hedley II

Lanford Wilson
  • Burn This
  • The Mound Builders
  • Talley's Folly
  • Fifth of July

George C. Wolfe
  • The Colored Museum

Classic Plays

Late 19th and early 20th Century 

Chekhov
  • Uncle Vanya
  • The Three Sisters
  • The Cherry Orchard

Ibsen
  • Hedda Gabler
  • A Doll's House
  • Ghosts

Strindberg
  • Miss Julie

Pirandello
  • Six Characters in Search of an Author

Gorky
  • The Lower Depths

George Bernard Shaw
  • Pygmalion
  • Man and Superman
  • Candida

Oscar Wilde
  • The Importance of Being Earnest

17th century

Moliere
  • Tartuffe
  • The School for Wives
  • The Imaginary Invalid
  • The Miser
  • The Doctor Inspire of Himself

Elizabethean Era

Shakespeare
  • Hamlet
  • King Lear
  • Twelfth Night
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

Ancient Greek

Aristophanes
  • Lysistrata
  • The Frogs
  • The Clouds

Sophocles
  • Antigone
  • Oedipus Rex

Euripides
  • Medea
  • The Trojan Women

Aeschylus
  • Prometheus Bound
  • The Oresteia
    • Agamemnon
    • The Libation Bearers
    • Eumenides
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