Recommended by Asher Wyndham

An inspiration for writers to find a fun source for inspiration -- in this case, a popular song and make a whole world and character out of it. I would like to see and other monologues inspired by songs.

This is one of the best short monologues that I have read that says so much these crazy times in America. The character, the images, the critique of the system and the oppression is spot-on. A voice of sense in all the senselessness.

What a unique use of the monologue, taking phrases/outcomes from various stages in an actor's career to capture an emotional state, most likely through physicality, movement, face and gesture. Inspirational. This audition monologue (a monologue on auditioning) would make for a great audition piece HA!

For many Americans 9/11 is a still a painful reminder, it's engrained in their psyche, and this playwright reminds us of this, poetically and poignantly. A perfect choice for a reading on 9/11 or American history. This would be a good audition monologue as well.

This site-specific work is unlike any play on NPX! The playwright takes risks with an exploration of space, time, relationships and language, exploring emotions at extreme exposure that it just as surprising as the rooftopping of its characters. And it's unapologetically queer and sexy and raw. I haven't read a play that sounded like this one before. Loved it! Check it out!

Sickles finds intimacy in conversation that is anything but typical. Which makes for the physical intimacy even more hot when it gets to that point. The structure of this makes you think that all those plot structures and dramaturgy, most narratives is really narrow, focused on neurotypical thought process. Someone like Sickles really opens your eyes to neurodivergency and language and how that makes theatre a great way to spotlight it. And he does that in a way that's so silly, sexy and honest.

This is hee-larious, it will have your audience in stiches. What a refreshing, surprising story concept and structure for a monologue, recipe steps for canned peaches where everything goes wrong. Relatable to anyone who attempted something to impress another person. This would be a good fit for any festival on marriage. Or a comedy showcase.

When the outcome of grad school applications is revealed it is devastating even for a reader, it's a gut-punch. I applaud the playwright for capturing a character that many young people can relate to but whose story doesn't get the spotlight with such passion, conviction, and heartache. It's all brutally honest about the application process, higher education, and American young people's relationship to technology and how they respond and react to the world.

Kevin King has created an entertaining and introspective monologue that works because its direct address invites the audience to participate, to imagine that they are at a fortune reading. There is an intimacy that King creates through his speaker's words and images and charm that it will make for a fun time at the theatre.

Both funny and weird AF, Assaf has crafted a carnival room of horrors on traditional feminity and modern dating. This is a fine example, in language and execution, why this must be on stage. It's also an atypical monodrama, there's a theatricality to this and storytelling that is rare in the form.