Recommended by Asher Wyndham

WOW. This is probably my favorite monologue about an animal with the actor playing an animal.
This makes you really think about how we treat strays or any animal (dog or cat) separated from their parents and siblings way too young. Really forces you think about an alternative to this.
Short, half a page, but it's impact will last a long time.
Consider this for any festival about pets and animals.

This will be our future romancing and courting, if we continue to destroy the natural world and viruses force social distancing.
It's funny, beautiful, but at the end I was a little sad.
Consider this for any festival about the coronavirus.

Hageman writes a serious play that breaks your heart, but she also writes a ridiculous comedy with more laughs than a Saturday Night Sketch. But with substance.
This DC-inspired play, the second one (in a series, fingers crossed) zooms in on toxic masculinity while at the same being critical of it and contrasting it with moments of bro-romance that reveals the non-toxic -- the feminine.
This would be a great play to see on recorded Zoom. It should go viral!

It gets bonkers just like an office play by Adam Bock. With a workforce that includes an idiot boss, a lazy-ass, an annoying know-it-all, and an underappreciated intern you can count on some ridiculous comedy. Much of the action takes place in an 'office' that's the size of supply closet! Johnson deals with some serious subjects - empathy and grief, responsiblity to others and our own well-being in the 'grand-scheme of things' - which elevate this play beyond a goofy office comedy satirizing corporate culture. Well-done!

Another stellar Valentine's Day monologue - a reminder to get yourself out there and make a connection.
As always, surprising encounters and lessons.
This should be a staple of any showcase of Valentine's Day monologues.

The girls in the audience will love this!
(And me too!)
Reminds you Halloween is a good time to have some naughty fun.

This monologue and other Halloween-themed monologues would certainly have a creepy effect on an audience. Just like walking through a haunted house. It was be sick fun - listening to every word, picturing every image of ghostly presence, participating in a way, imagining you're the haunted protagonist.
What I love about Lermond's creepy monologues is that I have no clue what's going to happen.

Lermond's way with words will get under your skin.
The actor who gets to play the narrator will have fun with playing different character voices and creeping out the audience.
This would be a perfect addition to any Halloween showcase. It would be a smart choice to start off with this monologue.

Sickles delivers one of best kid monologues ever!
Oh so adorable Mill in camo pjays charms us with his devilish revenge against (won't say).
The physicality (he's playing a military leader summoning an occult army) and vocal characterization (he's delivering a funny version of Medieval dialect) would be a fun challenge for a kid actor.
This is one of those monologues, if performed perfectly by the right actor, would be a winner at a competition.
Why do another one-dimensional, storytelling, undramatic kid monologue from one of those dusty monologue books? Perfom one of Sickles' kid monologues instead.

The positivity in this play makes me smile.
I never encountered this combination of gay men in a play before.
Consider this for your future showcase of queer shorts.