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Ten Monologues to Move the Panel<\/h3>\n \"\"<\/a><\/span>

Written by Amanda Grace<\/p>\n

April 25th, 2021<\/p>\n<\/font>

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Step one: take them by surprise. Step two: take their heartstrings in your hands! From faulty reptilian safety devices to demonic conversations with bobcats, these pieces have the twists and turns you need to\u00a0steer the casting director right into your hands.<\/p>\n

From\u00a0Between Mars and Me\u00a0<\/em>by Rose Helsinger<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, College 18-22, Young Adults 20s)<\/b><\/p>\n

After witnessing the events of 9\/11 from his window, Roland withdraws into his apartment and himself, instead imagining the outside world has been ravaged by a Martian attack. His sister, Jaime, has just opened the curtains, exposing to him a New York City without the Twin Towers for the first time. She tells him that she and their mother have been praying his sadness will disappear\u2026 but it isn\u2019t just sadness stopping up Roland\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n

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From\u00a0Fizzy\u00a0<\/em>by Crystal Skillman<\/h4>\n
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(Female, Dramatic, Young Adults 20s, Adults 30-40s)<\/b><\/p>\n

Tina\u2019s dog, Fizzy, has returned from the afterlife to ask for a proper funeral. As they prepare to properly usher him into the afterlife\u2014Tina with a canister of his ashes, Fizzy with a dog bowl of rum\u2014Tina laments the heartache of Fizzy\u2019s last day at the vet.<\/p>\n

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From\u00a0This is My Office\u00a0<\/em>by Andy Bragen<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Serio-Comic, Adults 30-40s)<\/b><\/p>\n

When he was first granted a nine-month residency in an abandoned office near Wall Street, playwright Andy Bragen couldn\u2019t have envisioned himself spending Christmas Eve drunk, high, and with only the company of his late father\u2026 but here he is.<\/p>\n

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From Terminus<\/em> by Mark O’Rowe<\/h4>\n
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(Female, Dramatic, Young Adults 20s)<\/b><\/p>\n

B is contemplating death in Dublin. As she ponders, she\u2019s besieged by memories, which go some way to explaining why she\u2019s so troubled: her baby sister died after an hour and forty minutes of life; her father died of lung cancer; her mother had an affair with her boyfriend, after which, B attempted suicide. Trust, she\u2019s found out, can make or break you.<\/p>\n

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From Murph<\/em> by Matthew McLachlan<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Serio-Comic, Young Adults 20s, Adults 30-40s, Mature 50s)<\/b><\/p>\n

At the end of the row in a family plot in a cemetery lies Marv\u2019s late iguana Murph, who died after falling from the sky wearing an iguana parachute. Marv has since discovered the device was merely meant to be a gag gift. He has come to mourn his fallen friend.<\/p>\n

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From\u00a0The Snare<\/em> by Samantha Beach<\/h4>\n
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(Female, Dramatic, High School 14-18)<\/b><\/p>\n

Eighth-grader Ruth is being controlled by the devil, and with the help of her pastor mom, she\u2019s been trying to break free from his grasp\u2026 but now, in her living room fort, talking to the wild bobcat that\u2019s laid claim her family\u2019s front yard, she\u2019s not exactly certain why she should want to.<\/p>\n

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From\u00a0Beckett at Greystones Bay<\/em> by Rosary O’Neill<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, Young Adults 20s)<\/b><\/p>\n

Winter. 1933. A bleak stormy beach on the rocky coast of Ireland. Samuel Beckett\u2019s mother has just destroyed his relationship with his fianc\u00e9, and the loss has left him roaring.<\/p>\n

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From\u00a0A Version of Events<\/em> by Matthew Ivan Bennett<\/h4>\n
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(Female, Dramatic, Adults 30-40s)<\/b><\/p>\n

Hannah and Cooper are driving through Pennsylvania, attempting to hold their marriage together after the death of their baby boy. Cooper needs to process their loss, but Hannah needs him to understand just how tasteless life has become for her.<\/p>\n

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From A Therapy Session With Myself by Anthony J. Piccione<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, High School 14-18, College 18-22)<\/b><\/p>\n

Alex, an aspiring writer with social anxiety, depression, and Asperger\u2019s, receives a visit from himself. A younger and very much lonely Alex\u00a0ushers in\u00a0flashbacks of in-patient group therapy sessions gone by.<\/p>\n

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From\u00a0Hallelujah<\/em> by Joshua Levine<\/h4>\n
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(Female, Dramatic, Adults 30-40s)<\/b><\/p>\n

Violinist Louise begins to hear \u201cHallelujah\u201d in her soul when a train accident occurs outside her window. She\u2019s convinced her husband, Brent, was on the train and has flown into the air, and she\u2019s eyeing up her own patch of blue sky.<\/p>\n

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