Contemporary Female Monologues for Drama School Auditions
UPDATE - We know have a (continually growing) page of Female Monologues, Analysed and Broken Down, which you can find HERE
If you’re currently auditioning for drama school, or you plan to soon, you know that you need to come up with a pretty good monologue. Men have a lot more choice than women still due to a historical imbalance in contemporary writing, but it can be just as hard for younger or less experienced auditionees to get access to plays.
If you’re auditioning for drama school, you need to come up with a pretty great contemporary monologue choice that shows you know a bit of contemporary drama and not just the stuff you did at school.
But how do you find one? The average person doesn’t have access to a library of good plays. Going to the bookshop is haphazard, monologue books are overdone, and you can’t go monologue shopping on Amazon, it ends disastrously with a load of plays bought, but no monologues found.
Our clients are lucky, they have access to a database of a few thousands of plays that we provide them access with.
But for those that aren’t lucky enough to be able to search for monologues like that, here are some contemporary monologues that you could try.
MEDEA REDUX - in Neil Labute’s collection of plays BASH - Latterday plays.
MARNIE (various) - in Tom Morton-Smith’s IN DOGGERLAND.
LUE in THE WINTERLING by Jez Butterworth (This is not the form speech)
ISOBEL (various) in BULL by Mike Bartlett
SHEILA (One Day..) in DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG by Peter Nichols.
GRETA in AFTER EASTER by Anne Devlin
B (Various) in ALL OVER LOVELY by Claire Dowie
MANY ROLES (All Monologues) in BU21 by Stuart Slade
FLEABAG (Various) in FLEABAG by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
FREAK by Anna Jordan (many monologues within)
So that’s a starting point for you, I hope it helps.