10 Dramatic Monologues for Young Men Age 14-18

Written by Meghan Mitchell

December 8, 2017

Looking for a dramatic monologue for a teen actor? Below are 10 dramatic audition cuts for those teenage boys who want to make an impression with their monologue.

A monologue from My Little Brother by Dan Berkowitz

(Male, Dramatic, Teens 14-18)
This teenager has a little brother who annoys the heck out of him. He has just begun a long discussion of what their little brother is like. This teen can’t stand that their little brother gets what appears to be special treatment. But it is in this moment that Teen-aged Kid realizes that they have been selfish in wishing for any type of brother other than the one they have.

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A monologue from If These Walls Could Talk by Robert Swift

(Male, Dramatic, Teens 14-18)
Stanley is quite attached to his varsity jacket—so much so that he won’t go to prom because he would have to take it off to wear a tux.  After being called out on his juvenile attachment to this piece of clothing, Stanley starts to wonder if maybe he is being too ridiculous.  The problem is, before he played sports and started wearing the jacket, he was a ‘nobody’, and the prospect of becoming invisible again scares him.

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A monologue from One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji by Evan Guilford-Blake

(Male, Dramatic, Teens 14-18)
Ramon sits with Juliana in a park, talking about their mutual dislike for the town and the school and the circumstances in which they’re forced to live. Ramon wishes he hadn’t asked a boy to dance at a recent party—he has yet to live down the bullying from that event. Here, Ramon suggests starting over someplace else, running away together, but also remarking that the “devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know.”

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A monologue from Firemen by Tommy Smith

(Male, Dramatic, Teens 14-18)
Gary has been seeing Ben’s mother Annie.  Late one night while spending the night with Annie, Gary finds Ben in their kitchen.  Ben cannot sleep and is attempting to put on a pair of military boots.  After conversing for some time, Ben reveals that he needs to confess something to Gary—Gary warns him that as a member of the school faculty, he must report anything that is potentially harmful to Ben or others.  Ben finally tells him of the sexual incident that occurred while babysitting Susan’s son, Kyle.

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A monologue from Rememberin’ Stuff by Eleanor Harder

(Male, Dramatic, Teens 14-18)
Tony discloses that he has only one main interest—alcohol.  He has already been stopped for drunk driving and is currently in a substance abuse program earning the title of “alcoholic” in his mere teens.  He proudly shares that he has been sober for ‘three months and sixteen days, to be exact.’

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A monologue from You Belong to Me by Debbie Lamedman

(Male, Dramatic, Teens 14-18)
The play centers around Allison, a quiet honor student who has never had a real boyfriend. Her girlfriends decide to fix her up with a date for the winter formal. Allison herself, inexperienced in dating relationships, isn’t sure at first that something is really, really wrong. This monologue is used as a transition between the scenes surrounding Allison’s story. During these Interludes, other victims and abusers share their experiences. This is a gay male’s perspective on his own personal experience.

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A monologue from Know Your Role by Brandi Owensby

(Male, Dramatic, Teens 14-18)
Trey’s father came out as transgender in Trey’s childhood. He sat the whole family down, telling them he could no longer live a lie, and needed to live as a woman to feel happiness. The family did not take it well, and after his parent’s divorce, Trey bullied his own father because he did not have his own strength to stand up for him. It wasn’t until it was too late that Trey finally realized just how strong and brave his dad had truly been in his life, accepting himself for who he was, even in the face of adversity.

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A monologue from Somebody’s Baby by David-Matthew Barnes

(Male, Dramatic, Teens 14-18)
As a result of being diagnosed with AIDS, a young man named William has been shunned by many people he loves. Finding peace by sitting in a Chicago coffee shop, he befriends a sixteen-year- old girl who is there also. He explains his heartbreaking journey to her.

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A monologue from The Sunken Living Room by David Caudle

(Male, Dramatic, Teens 14-18)
Chip’s girlfriend Tammy has just apologized for breaking a very expensive ashtray and is helping Wade, Chip’s younger brother, clean up the mess. She gives him a hard time for being so well-behaved, but she still treats him with more kindness than his parents or his brother do. In this monologue, Wade tells Tammy his favorite memory of his older sister Allison before she ran away, and reveals that Tammy is the first person to show him any respect or kindness since Allison’s departure.

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A monologue from Platform Nine by Rebecca Moretti

(Male, Dramatic, Teens 14-18)
Two teenagers, Sonny and Adelie, seemingly opposites and headed in opposite directions, meet at an empty train station in the middle of the night.  Adelie has run away from her exclusive East Coast boarding school to find her mother in Los Angeles, whom she has never met.  Sonny has run away from his broken home in Los Angeles to make it big in New York, the city of his dreams.  Despite their differences, the two form an unexpected connection which will last them much longer than a few hours on platform nine.

Get the monologue here.



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Meghan Mitchell is a working actor who graduated cum laude from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois with a B.A. in Musical Theatre. She loves Shakespeare and nightly fireworks, and after working regionally and on ships, she is now proud to call Orlando her home.