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10 New Monologues for Young Adult Males

Written by Tiffany Weagly-Wilkie

March 9, 2017

Guys, are you looking for a strong monologue for an audition or competition that shows off your skills as a comedic actor? We’ve pulled ten from our library that will give you an edge in the room.

A monologue from Born and Raised by Kristine M. Reyes

(Male, Comedic, Teens)
Paul, a senior in high school in the Midwest, is taping the video portion of his college application to UCLA. He’s slightly awkward and nervous, but very enthusiastic because he gets to talk about how his dad is his biggest inspiration. Paul was adopted by a white couple as a baby boy, but he’s never felt weird about being adopted, or questioned his identity, thanks to his dad. He has grown up thinking he’s Chinese. Soon after in the play, he’ll find out he’s not.

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A monologue from Love (Awkwardly) by By John Rotondo and Maryann Carolan

(Male, Comedic, Teens)
Eight juniors and seniors navigate the wonderful, painful, exhilarating and awkward minefield of high school relationships and the moments that matter the most: the first kiss, flirting, dating, breaking up, going to college and what goes through their heads as they sit in the most boring class ever. Luke soliloquies on his first love. He was in love with a celebrity; he thought nothing strange or odd of obsessing over this girl who was famous and on People’s Hottest 25 Under 25 List. He went to a C.D. signing of hers, knowing in his heart of hearts that she would meet him, it would be love at first sight, and they would run away into the sunset together. This was simply not the case.

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A monologue from The Ghost Moments by Randy Wyatt

(Male, Comedic, Teens)
We all have ghosts that haunt us. Do we run from them or hunt them down? The characters in The Ghost Moments—some young, some not-so-young, each from a very different walk of life—exist in their own worlds, all of them hunting or being hunted. Some of their ghosts are literal: Matty tries to rid his sister’s apartment of a spirit that may or may not be there, Zachary prepares his bunker for the zombie apocalypse. Others are metaphorical: Marianne’s absent father, Bethany’s lost innocence, Caroline’s memories of water, Michael’s lost afternoons of love, Carver’s secret powers. As we witness hauntings and exorcisms through a series of monologues, this group of characters and their loves, longings, joy and pain, will haunt us long after the curtain falls. Matty, 20ish, has promised to try to exorcise a spirit from his sister’s apartment.

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A monologue from Last Right Before the Void by Jonathan Dorf

(Male, Comedic, Teens)
Reality shifts like a kaleidoscope as a teenage boy tries to thumb a ride by the last exit before a dark highway in Minnesota seems to turn into a black hole. He may be a fugitive or a model or a community college dropout…and is that Medea who just arrived? And Elvis? Darth Vader? Aliens? Or is none of it real, and he’s just a kid stuck outside his house on a freezing cold night trying to negotiate his way back in? Christian, 17, hitchhiking on a deserted highway, talks to a woman who hitchhikes on the other side of the road and carries a sign that says “Alaska.”

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A monologue from The Baseball King by Amelia Ross

(Male, Comedic, Teens)
Teenage David enters carrying a sign that reads, FREE COUNSELING WITH DAVID SHEPHERD. He never (ever) speaks. Phil Steen, the ultimate high school jock from a rival team, enters, making sure no one else sees.

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A monologue from HKFN: The Abbreviated Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Jeff Goode

(Male, Comedic, Teens)
The actor who plays Huck tries to escape a production of Mark Twain’s classic but controversial Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by running away from school. But his escape is complicated when the actor who plays Jim decides to run away as well. They are joined by a pair of troublemakers (Duke & King) who lead their ragtag fugitive theatre company into a series of ridiculous misadventures, while the domineering Aunt Polly tries to force them all back into the “real” play. But in the midst of the comic mayhem, that play—and the discussion about race that comes with it—may be happening without them knowing it. The teen actor playing Huck in a production of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is uncomfortable with the language in the play. It’s rehearsal.

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A monologue from Creature Features (Modern Day Mutants) by Christian Kiley

(Male, Comedic, Teens)
Tired of the constant pressure to be like everyone else? Are you ready to stand up and celebrate who you are and your uniqueness? Well, meet “The Originals” and be a part of a new movement that will be sweeping every school in the world. Each member of “The Originals” has a unique physical feature that is different than “The Normals.” Grippy’s hands, Dumbo’s ears, Cranium’s brain, Coke Bottles’ eyes, Cyrano’s nose, and Charlie’s heart. Together they try to create a united front against conformity and the idea that everyone should be the same in this charming, often comic and ultimately enlightening celebration of uniqueness. He shares this as a way of accepting his uniqueness and discovering his willingness to forgive.

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A monologue from One Good Thing by Don Zolidis

(Male, Comedic, Teens)
Travis, a senior in high school, is pretty miserable. The girl he’s in love with doesn’t know he exists, his father is leaving his mother, and his older brother has been deployed to Iraq. All he really wants to do is make it through high school, but that’s easier said than done. Erynne, a rebellious punk girl, would probably think Travis has it easy. She’s been kicked out of her house and is living in a mini-van and her boyfriend is thinking about dumping her. Even though they have class together at school, Travis and Erynne don’t know each other. And whether or not they find each other will determine if they live through the night. A play about dealing with tragedy and the strength necessary to survive, all in the search for just one good thing. Travis, 17, sweet, awkward, and a little bit bored, talks to the audience.

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A monologue from Hangman by Peter Barry

(Male, Comedic, Teens)
Five boys sit in an empty Boarding School classroom in the middle of the night. All but one are high on various substances– Tetwilliger has remained sober to observe and monitor the rest. Two are playing a confusing game of hangman, one can’t keep food down and another, Jones, is lying unconscious. Tetwillger believes he is experiencing enlightenment and wishes desperately Jones would share his experience with him because, as we find out, he is severely jealous of not having taken a drug. This is his frustrating and philosophical monologue to the unconscious boy on the floor.

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A monologue from Friendlyville by Kevin Drzakowski

(Male, Comedic, Teens)
Friendlyville’s Main Street. Friendlyville’s reluctant clown, Giggles the Clown, has just turned up dead, apparently murdered. Jake Robertson, Friendlyville’s florist, unexpectedly has the task of eulogizing Giggles thrust upon him during a speedy impromptu funeral. At first, Jake struggles to find something meaningful to say about a clown who wasn’t very good at making people laugh, but then Jake remembers a formative experience from Giggles’s childhood.

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