WOMEN'S MONOLOGUES
A Suburban Mother Tells Her 12-Year-Old Neighbor How to Make His Street Gang More Powerful, Wendi Aarons
The Aftermath, Laura Edwards
The Afternoon of a Faun, Edna Ferber
Aunt Ida's Tenant, Yvonne Chism-Peace
Bearing Witness: Not So Crazy in Alabama,
Carla Thompson
Beautiful Mistakes, Cathy Camper
Blood, Bia Lowe
Ca(r)nal Desires, Bridget Robin Pool
Cheaters at the Wedding, V. Hunt
The Circles I Move In, Diane Lefer
The Coach's Wife, Barbara Casey
Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella
Detroit, Denise Dee
The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
Diamond, Maureen Ryan Griffin
Diary of a Psychotic Cat, Justin Warner
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Future, Dori Appel
The Girl with the Blackened Eye, Joyce Carol Oates
Girlfriends, Bridget Terry
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Grief, Jennifer Cuccaro
He Loves Me, Ann Teplick
Hook, Line and Sinker (3), Judy Budnitz
Humoresque, Fannie Hurst
In Which I Use the "F" Word More Times Than Is Probably Legal in Many States, Miss Doxie
Jesus My Bantu Butt, Barbara Lindsay
Jubilation, Florida, N. M. Kelly
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Losing a Glass Slipper, Emily Brauer Rogers
The Mission of Jane, Edith Wharton
Momster (2), Irene Ziegler
Most Memorable Character, Jacqueline T. Lynch
My Son, Rita Stallard
Neighborhood Watch, Wendi Aarons
Now, I know you remember so and so, Doris Davenport
Only Skin Deep, Kimberly Lester
The Other Side of Air, Jeanne Braselton
P.O.U.G.H.K.E.E.P.S.I.E., Bara Swain
Pack Job, Laura Jacqmin
The Possessed, Fydor Dostoevsky
The Princess Bride (2), William Goldman
The Queen of Chiva, Robert Crisman
The Queen of Harlem, Brian Keith Jackson
A Racial Education, Part Two (2), Gerald Early
Random Spam, Anonymous
Rappacini's Daughter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown
Run Away, J. Boyer
Samantha Paulson, 32; Milpitas, California, Eric Feezell
Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson
Sixteen at the Jeu De Paume, Maureen Ryan Griffin
The Speech of Polly Baker, Benjamin Franklin
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Zev Borow
Thorazine Johnny Felsun Loves Me, Thom Jones
Thoughts of a Bride on Her Wedding Day,
Janice Heffernan
to be a woman, Jennifer Karmin
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (2), Mark Twain
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
The Undomestic Goddess, Sophie Kinsella
Wants, Grace Paley
The Way of the Woman Warrior, Kathleen Statham
The Wedding, CC Thomas
What the Pharmacist Said, Greg Machlin
Who Am I This Time?, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Why Are You Laughing, Tom Coash
Why I Shouldn't Take Sudafed on an Empty Stomach,
Wendi Aarons
The Witch, Francine Prose
Wuthering Heights (2), Emily Bronte
WYWH, Andrew Biss
Yellow Pickled Radish, Patricia Jang
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
MEN'S MONOLOGUES
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
An HR Manager Responds to Alleged Infractions,
Rick Stoeckel
Babylon Revisited, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Balance Act, Ken Cormier
Benito Cereno, Herman Melville
Bob Kennedy, 56; Akron, Ohio, Eric Feezell
The Boss Is Dead (2), Ron Pullins
Brunch, Daniel Drennan
Burger King, Mark Hilringhouse
Charles Boyer Is on the Loose, Barbara Lindsay
Checkpoint (2), Nicholas Baker
Christopher Hitchens Visits St. Margaret's School for Young Women, Where He Discovers Little Girls Aren't Funny,
Either, Kate Kershner
Clowns, Kevin Brown
The Country Husband, John Cheever
Crime and Punishment, Fydor Dostoevsky
Damn!, H. L. Mencken
Daniel Hennessy, 79; Helena, Montana, Eric Feezell
David Caruso Scolds His Cat About Its Lackadaisical
Litter-box Use, Brian Graham
Decker Moody, Swimming Pool Salesman,
Chuck Strangward
The Devil and Daniel Webster, Stephen Vincent Benet
The Devil Wears Prada (2), Lauren Weisberger
Do-It-Yourself, Phineas Mollod and Jason Tesauro
Down There, Laura Jacqmin
The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allen Poe
Fana!, Thomas M. Kelly
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses, Irwin Shaw
Havris & Eli, Ken Cormier
The Hope of All, Barbara Lindsay
Humoresque, Fannie Hurst
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
I Learned the Science of Melancholy and the Art of Regret in the Backseat of Her Father's Old Car, J. J. Steinfeld
I'm a Fool (2), Sherwood Anderson
Imagine Kissing Pete (3), John O'Hara
The Invisible Man, H. G. Wells
Ivan Hackler, Zeb Scanlan
A Lesson Before Dying (2), Ernest J. Gaines
Marjorie Daw (2), Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The More I Like Flies, Reginald McKnight
The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell
Mouth Hole, Wendi Aarons
My Father's Girlfriend, Irene Ziegler
My Kid's Dog, Ron Hansen
The New Age and You and a Very Real Place Called Hell,
Zev Borow
Notes from the Underground, Fydor Dostoevsky
oldsmobile, Clay McLeod Chapman
Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven, Dawn Turner Trice
Oreo (2), Everett T. Burnett
The Other Side of Air, Jeanne Braselton
A Piece of Cake, Robert Crisman
A Play, Bruce Morrow
Please Take, Jason Roeder
Private First Class Reginald "Malik" Edwards,
Wallace Terry
The Pursuer, Julio Cortázar
Random Spam, Anonymous
Rat Bohemia (2), Sarah Schulman
The Remains of Crazy Horse (2), Douglas Schnitzspahn
Scorched Earth (2), David L. Robbins
Self-Sabotage, Matthew Ivan Bennett
Sonnet CXXXVIII, William Shakespeare
A Special Message from the American Fruit Co.,
Greg Machlin
Stay Down, Tammy Peacy
Tastes Like Chicken, R. T. Smith
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Zev Borow
War Is Kind, Stephen Crane
War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
What You Know, Peter Ho Davies
When I Should Have Stopped Listening, Tim Cage
The Witch, Francine Prose
Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Your New Personal Trainer, Jason Roeder
Indices
monologues by age
monologues by tone
monologues by voice
monologues by author
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