Recommended by Asher Wyndham

I'd love to see this on stage with lilies in a vase and the actor beside it, delivering this poetry. The surprise is WHO the speaker is mourning. There's heartache in the lines that really are overpowering for a listener. A great selection for a festival on death and mourning or on pets.

Alles went above and beyond with his randomly assigned five words, creating an authentic voice of man with backstory and pyschology and conflict. This monologue is perfect for a festival of plays on fatherhood. This monologue is inspirational, playwrights writing monologue should find inspiration from random images/words and see what they come up with that.

I like that the ringing happens throughout the monologue, and the speaker's complaint is directed at the phone itself. (Rarely does sound effect influence action for a monologue.) This would make a great addition to any festival on the election and voting. It captures craziness of politicized American education through the voice of a superintendent.

CRINGE! And I mean that as a compliment. Olinger does something rare for T4Y, capturing peer pressure in the AI bubble, showing how AI chat bot's technology appropriates teenage peer pressuring, and shapes a young person's life, everything from what they wear, how they communicate with their peers--so much it's like their entire pyschology is transformed by it. Eek! Check it out!

This kind of masculinity, honesty and intimacy is rare on stage. It's lovely and necessary expression. And it's even more powerful coming from the mouth of a veteran. Most audition monologues are just story-telling, not physical; this exceptional one by Heyman earns its physicality, movement in space, because it all comes from the words that animate a spirit, a believable human person. Consider this for your next audition!

Some of the most horrible memories of war are not on the battlefield, they are personal and private. Baker does a fine job capture that, and the shame and the struggle to be open with oen's feelings. This would be a great audition piece for an actor.

Remove his name from a monologue submission and you can easily find the one written by Busser out of a thousand submissions. Singular comedy, it's Busserian. Many monologues don't keep your attention for a long time, while any monologue by Busser keeps you thoroughly entertained because it's non-stop hilarious.

Is this the first monologue for AI character/entity? In the future, this could be performed by a robot. I would love to see that! The topic of spirit, sentience, soul is explored with an exisential poetry and humor.

Another winning monologue from Jonte. Its message is inspiring and uplifting, an ego boost that we need. This kind of positivity is rare in theatre!

This a special monologue for a young actor working a monologue for the first time. It captures sibling rivalry and child speech and imagination perfectly. And it achieves something rare for a youth monologue, it's active, physically active with conflict while telling a story.