Recommended by Asher Wyndham

Word for word, Carnes surprises and stuns us with her poetry. She does more on one page than many playwrights do with ten.
I would love to read more animal plays on environmental and political themes. It'd be a lot of fun for a scenic and costume designer.

This monologue would be a great audition monologue - funny, active, physical. I can imagine the actor playing the space, using different levels.

This should be required reading for playwrights and theatre artists in school and out of school, and something to consider for your solo festival. Fierce, honest, this monologue is not something you can ignore.

Every Lermond monologue is a treat with a trick inside.

Another delightful piece from the master of story-monologues.

This monologue written from deep-seated emotion captures a relatable experience of suffering through a toxic and violent relationship. Many will recognize the trauma, and hopefully many more will be uplifted through its positive message - knowing you're not broken, it's not over, baby steps. Consider this for your festival/reading series on domestic violence.

It's marvel how Sickles constructs character through slow build of observation, reflection, and emotion. And then the surprise at the end. He's one of the few playwrights out there that I know that creates complex, arresting characters in monologue form in only few pages.

This cute teddy bear has a little bit to him, plenty to say about living in Covid, Paris, France. Consider this for your festival on pandemic themes.

With laughs from audience this might end up being longer than a minute. Just as funny as the best of SNL.

Beautiful. This monologue's poetry will yield multiple interpretations, maybe with dance or mulit-media design.