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Free Monologues, Scenes and Scripts for Actors
Practice acting scripts for auditions, classes, and self-tapes: monologues and two-person scenes, classic Shakespeare and original pieces, free to read and free to perform. Every one comes with a built-in AI scene partner, so you can rehearse it right here, no signup needed. Teachers: our originals are free for classroom use, see monologues for schools.
Monologues
Hamlet: To Be or Not to Be
The most famous soliloquy ever written, broken into beats for memorization practice.
As You Like It: All the World's a Stage
Jaques maps a whole human life in seven ages - a gift of a monologue for showing range in two minutes.
The Last Walk-Through
The keys are due at five. One last walk through a childhood home the day it is sold, waiting to feel the big thing and finding all the small ones instead.
On Hold
A simple phone call to cancel a gym membership becomes a battle of wills against a retention specialist, a free water bottle, and forty unbroken minutes of pan flute.
Lady Macbeth: The Raven
A famous audition monologue for women. Lady Macbeth learns the king is coming to her house tonight and calls on the dark to strip away everything that might stop her.
Viola: I Left No Ring
A famous audition monologue for women. Disguised as a man, Viola realizes the countess she was sent to woo on another's behalf has fallen for her instead, and the tangle has no easy end.
Portia: The Quality of Mercy
A classical audition monologue for women. Disguised as a young lawyer, Portia stands in a Venetian court and tries to talk a man out of taking his pound of flesh.
Juliet: Gallop Apace
A classical monologue for young women and teens. Newly married and alone in her room, Juliet begs the sun to set so Romeo can come to her, not knowing what has just happened in the street.
Helena: How Happy Some
A comic classical monologue for women. Helena, overlooked and lovesick, works out why the man she loves can't see her, then hatches a plan that is guaranteed to backfire.
Emilia: Their Husbands' Faults
A classical audition monologue for women. Late at night, Emilia tells Desdemona exactly why wives stray, in one of Shakespeare's most modern-sounding speeches.
Puck: If We Shadows Have Offended
A short, playful classical monologue for any actor. Puck steps out at the end of the play to charm the audience and ask for their applause.
Macbeth: Is This a Dagger
A classic dramatic monologue for men. Minutes before he murders the king, Macbeth sees a bloody dagger hanging in the air and follows it toward Duncan's room.
Mark Antony: Friends, Romans, Countrymen
A powerful classical monologue for men. Over Caesar's body, Mark Antony promises not to criticize the men who killed him, then turns the crowd against them line by line.
Benedick: This Can Be No Trick
A funny classical monologue for men. Benedick, a sworn bachelor, overhears that Beatrice loves him and talks himself into loving her back in about ninety seconds.
Romeo: But Soft, What Light
A romantic classical monologue for young men and teens. Hidden in the Capulet orchard, Romeo sees Juliet at her window and can't stop talking about her.
Henry V: Once More Unto the Breach
A heroic classical monologue for men. King Henry rallies his exhausted army to charge back into the broken wall at Harfleur, one of the great call-to-arms speeches.
Phebe: Think Not I Love Him
A funny classical monologue for women. A proud shepherdess insists she does not love the boy who insulted her, while describing every inch of him in loving detail.
Rosalind: And Why, I Pray You?
A funny classical monologue for women. Disguised as a boy, Rosalind tears into a vain shepherdess for scorning a good man, and realizes too late that the shepherdess is falling for her.
Constance: Grief Fills the Room
A dramatic classical monologue for women. A mother whose young son has been taken prisoner refuses to be comforted, and explains to the men around her what grief actually feels like.
Hamlet: What a Piece of Work Is a Man
A dramatic classical monologue for men. Hamlet admits to two old school friends, sent by the King to spy on him, that he has lost all joy in the world, and in people.
Launce and His Dog Crab
A funny classical monologue for men. A servant re-enacts his tearful family goodbye using his shoes, his staff, and his hat, and cannot forgive his dog for not crying.
Richard III: Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent
A dramatic classical monologue for men. The war is over and everyone is celebrating except Richard, who tells the audience exactly how he plans to take the crown.
The Group Chat
A funny short monologue for women in their 20s and 30s. Dana has found out there is a group chat without her in it, and it has a palm tree next to the name.
Plant Parent
A funny monologue for women of any age. A woman stages a serious intervention with her dying houseplant and slowly realizes they have more in common than she would like.
The Best Man Toast
A funny monologue for men in their 20s to 40s. The best man has lost his speech cards, so he gives the toast from memory and ends up saying the one true thing he never planned to.
The Gym Membership
A funny monologue for men of any age. A brand new gym member tries to talk his way out of his free personal training session, until he admits why he really signed up.
The Cast List
A dramatic monologue for teen girls. The cast list goes up, her best friend gets the lead they both wanted, and she has to decide what kind of friend she is going to be.
The New Kid
A funny monologue for teen girls. On her first day at a new school, Maya sits down at a lunch table full of strangers and talks her way into a seat.
The Driving Test
A funny monologue for teen boys. Sixteen and taking his driving test, Leo narrates every move to a silent examiner and lets slip why he really needs to pass.
The Empty Chair
A dramatic monologue for teen boys. His father left two years ago and is coming to dinner on Saturday, so Sam practices what he will say to the empty chair at the table.
The Audition Room
A funny monologue for adult actors of any gender. Jordan walks into an audition with a very sad speech ready, then learns the role is the dog in a dog food ad.
The Voicemail
A dramatic monologue for women in their 20s and 30s. Claire's little brother has stopped answering, so she leaves one more voicemail from the hallway outside his door.
The Science Fair
A funny monologue for teen boys. Owen presents his science fair project to a judge: one full week without his phone, with himself as the only test subject.
The Apology
A dramatic monologue for men in their 40s to 60s. Ray drives six hours to confess that he let his oldest friend take the blame for a fire thirty years ago.
Two-Person Scenes
The Callback
Two best friends auditioned for the same role. One of them just got the callback.
MAYA · DEV
Last Shift
Closing time at a diner that closes for good tomorrow. Rosie has news. Frank has a mop.
ROSIE · FRANK
The Inheritance
The night after their mother's funeral, June found a second will. Caleb already knew it existed.
JUNE · CALEB
Second Date
Eli googled her after the first date. Sam was hoping he wouldn't. Now the dessert menu is the least awkward thing on the table.
SAM · ELI
Some Assembly Required
Drew wanted a relaxing afternoon building a wardrobe. Parker started before reading anything. Forty minutes later they are sheltering under a piece of furniture shaped like a canoe.
DREW · PARKER
Marked
A labeled lunch has vanished from the office fridge. Taylor is conducting an investigation. Morgan is doing a very poor job of not being the culprit.
TAYLOR · MORGAN
The Short List
The summer program posted its list. Sam is on it. Jamie, who ran Sam's audition monologue forty times, is not. Now they have to be friends about it.
JAMIE · SAM
After Hours
A night manager finds a stranger at a locked-floor desk at 2am. She has the uniform and the questions. He has something better: her badge number on tonight's log.
RYE · COLE
Romeo and Juliet: The Balcony Scene
The most famous love scene ever written. Juliet at her window, Romeo in the orchard below, and two families who would kill him for being there.
JULIET · ROMEO
Macbeth: The Persuasion
Macbeth has decided not to murder the king. Lady Macbeth has decided otherwise. One of the great persuasion scenes in the language.
LADY MACBETH · MACBETH
Much Ado: Benedick and Beatrice's Merry War
Two sworn enemies of love meet again after a war and pick up their own skirmish exactly where they left off. The great comic sparring match for a man and a woman.
BEATRICE · BENEDICK
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Hermia and Helena's Quarrel
Two childhood best friends turn on each other in a moonlit forest when both men suddenly love the same one of them. A comic catfight for two women.
HELENA · HERMIA
The Taming of the Shrew: Petruchio Woos Kate
A fortune hunter meets the most feared tongue in Padua and decides to marry her by the end of the conversation. A fast, physical comic duel for a man and a woman.
PETRUCHIO · KATHERINE
Twelfth Night: Viola and Olivia, the Willow Cabin
A young woman disguised as a man delivers another man's love message to a grieving countess, and the countess falls for the messenger. A comic and romantic scene for two women.
VIOLA · OLIVIA
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