←Recommendations of Father of the Dead

Sweet and grisly - a delicious combination! Perfect audition piece for a youthful father.

This is an excellent audition piece as it offers opportunities for actors to showcase their range, from delivering witty one-liners to portraying raw emotion. It also challenges performers to navigate the character's complex internal conflict while maintaining a strong presence on stage. It would be a joy for any actor to perform!

Parenting is one hard thing in life and a good parenting is even harder for a lot of people and the surprise of this monologue (perfect for this season) and yet, perfect for any season, but the surprise and movement of how this father gives his speech will surprise you and shock you with bittersweet regret of what might have been.

Good to see the American spirit never dies, even when it takes the form of a zombie! And in this clever one-minute monologue, an all-American dad, gun in hand, proclaims himself protector from the apocalypse. A familiar face in the crowd, maybe with bits falling off, brings about a moment of reflection. A brilliant audition piece or a perfect fit for any short play festival.

A deliciously dark monologue for the oblivious everyman during a zombie apocalypse! Highly recommended as an audition piece for a 40-something man going out for a dark comedy.

Funny and illuminating. So much in zombie fiction there's a sense of almost yearning, a wish for the structures of order and safety to go away, if only to validate our own beliefs about ourselves and human nature. Floyd-Priskorn presents a deep unwellness in the character of this monologue, a mixture of performative masculinity and a misplaced sense of power. It's so telling that, despite the father's delight in the breakdown of society, by the end he's still placing value in a material object that could only give him status in the old world. An excellent monologue.

Ah Zombie dad has arrived on the scene determined to be todays hero! Brilliant and funny in equal measure. I hope there will be more Zombie monologues from this talented writer, I for one cannot get enough!

Pitch black and pitch perfect, Floyd-Priskorn has fashioned a wonderfully ill-equipped pater for the apocalypse! The kind of dad who, even during a zombie encroachment, can always give his kids a reason to run from him. The circumstances evolve into a lovely discovery and twist by the end of its sixty seconds. Great fun!!!

A fast monologue with an unusual premise -- a zombie apocalypse. And a moral dilemma for a father that makes for a surprising moment that'll win over the audience and, even, better, a director at audition.

JACQUELYN FLOYD-PRISKORN’s fantastic monologue, “Father of the Dead”, is witty and is a must-read, must-perform, must-watch, grab-and-hold-your-attention, oh-my, piece! I highly recommend you read this superb piece! You will thoroughly enjoy it!