The Monologue Store

Feel free to use all of the monologues listed on the site for your acting needs! If you don’t find what you are looking for visit the monologue store for complete lists of female monologues.

Finding Appropriate Female Monologues

When searching for female monologues, you need to keep what you are trying to accomplish in mind. What kind of personality do you have? Are you the quirky girl next door type? The seductive vixen? Or are you the catty jealous rival of the goody two shoes protagonist?

Your monologue should be an extension of your personality. So while you are browsing through female monologues, keep your type in mind. You want to showcase your personality.

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Preparing A Monologue For An Audition Or Class

Alot of people are confused as to go about preparing a monologue for audition or stage. Let me tell you something, it isn’t that hard! You just need to follow a few simple steps in order to maximize your effectiveness in the audition or class. One of the common misconceptions about monologues is that you should memorize all of the stage directions and words first, THIS IS NOT TRUE!

To prepare a monologue you should first decide where your character is in the scene, and who is there with you. If you haven’t read the play then you can use your imagination based on the words in the text. It is your creative choice to decide where you are, because the point of any monologue is to MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU. What do I mean by this?

You should always choose a monologue that shows off your personality. Forget everything else if you are trying too hard to convey something that you simply aren’t, no one is going to believe it! So you want to choose a monologue that makes the light in you shine, something you can relate to! Although it is the goal of any actor to be as versatile as possible, the goal before that is BELIEVABILITY!

The next step you should take is reading between the lines. To do this, you may have to re read your monologue over and over again, THIS IS OK! Eventually the purpose of the monologue will rise to the surface and you will understand what is going on in the scene. Another great way to read between the lines is to establish a goal.

By establishing a goal for your character you eliminate many of the common mistakes actors will make in a given scene. When you have a direct purpose you are aiming for it is much more interesting, and it makes you as an actor less nervous. This is important because you as an actor SHOULD NOT BE NERVOUS. It does not serve you in any way and takes away from the believability of your character. Why would your character be nervous in a scene? It does not help you at all!

Finally IGNORE STAGE DIRECTIONS in the monologue. Yes you heard me correctly. Stage directions are merely guidelines to help the final product of the play take form. As an actor in an audition, it will limit you from making your OWN creative choices and fulfilling your artistic interpretation of the character. What could be worse than that?

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Memorization Does Not Equal Readiness

Everyone considers themselves a natural at one time or another on the stage, this is just a fact. When we look at the actors on the silver screen making big money, we say to ourselves “Hey I can do that!” The truth of the matter is, there is a lot of hard work that goes into preparing for these roles.

What we don’t realize is that there are countless hours of rehearsal, rigorous preparation, and exhausting circumstances resulting in the final product we see. Just like a professional athlete that makes the winning shot to score a game, hours have been spent in practice to realize one single moment. Such is the same in the acting processs.

This is where alot of actors fail in the creative process. It is not about walking on stage and being “natural” it is being believable in the moment after preparing a variety of interesting choices. If one were to just jump on a set without preparing, it would be like jumping out of a plane without knowing where the rip chord was on your parachute! Disastrous!

Fortunately for us there are casting directors to weed out the people that just walk in thinking they are the next big thing. As much as it pains me to say, there are countless numbers of talented actors that do not train their craft. When going to an audition you can always tell these people by their level of commitment to the script. If they are joking around and talking to other actor’s, you may safely assume they are not professionals.

A real professional actor will handle a situation as follows:

1) Show up early and request sides and sign in (if available)

2) Find a nice quiet place to get familiar with the script

3) Do NOT talk to other actors your time is absolutely precious

4) Go in and give the best reading you possibly can!

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