<p>okay so I know this question is posted all of the time on this site but I really really need some help. I'm a girl searching for the perfect monologues to use for college auditions and I keep coming up empty handed. Every monologue I find is either overdone, not in my age range, too bold, not bold enough, and anything else you can think of that makes a monologue not suitable to use for a college audition. Ive been looking for months and trying everything I can think of like internet searches, monologue books (the good ones where monologues are from actual plays), taking home random plays from the library, ALL OF IT. and I'm just really having a difficult time finding anything. If anyone out there has literally any monologues they can suggest for me I would appreciate it more than you can imagine. I'm a tall lanky blonde girl who loves comedic monologues but can also handle the serious ones and I need contrasting monologues anyway so please please please just anything that you can suggest will be enormously appreciated. PLEASE. </p>
<p>I have a son, so can’t give you direct ideas, but search this forum and the MT forum as there is information that may be helpful. Search this forum and MT using Female Monologues. Do you have a drama teacher, or perhaps an English teacher who could give you some ideas? </p>
<p>My D used “all this intimacy” by Rajiv Joseph. A monologue where a girl is trying to break up with a boy who has laryngitis. (comedic)</p>
<p>If at all possible, find an audition coach who can help with monologue selection. It’s one of the most difficult parts of the audition process, and it’s something that qualified coaches are very good at.</p>
<p>In addition, if you by any chance know one or more students in a college theatre program, they may be able to suggest monologues for you to look at. </p>
<p>One suggestion that’s been made here before is looking for lesser-known plays by well known playwrights.</p>
<p>I was actually looking at that one and thinking of using it but I was afraid it wouldn’t come off right since the boy isn’t up there with you with a notepad I didn’t know if it would be clear what I was going for. How did it work for your daughter?</p>
<p>@toowonderful </p>
<p>She had an empty chair (most auditions have/allow a chair in the room) and “he” was there while she was performing. </p>
<p>Chrisbee, my daughter had the same frustrations. It is very difficult to find female monologues that are age appropriate for college auditions. I found some by Googling college-level drama class syllabi. I also searched these boards for suggestions, but I think people are reluctant to post them because they are afraid they will become overdone. I echo the advice to use an audition coach. My daughter adamantly refused to work with one, and it cost her. She spent way too much time trying to find a monologue and not enough time preparing it. It was a painful live and learn experience. </p>
<p>Chrisbee, the suggestion of having a coach is helpful, and if that’s at all possible for you to do I agree that you should at least schedule one session for exactly that. The single most important thing to remember is that the monologue fits YOU. Your type. They want to see who you are and what you can do. And whatever you perform, perform the HECK out of it. Don’t worry so much about what you think they want to see, or what they have already seen. Maybe you will put a unique spin on it after all. You can only do so much in terms of not picking something that’s “overdone”. Anonymom000 said it best, you want to be completely prepared. Make the decision and then do your very best. Own it.</p>
<p>I agree. Working with someone on monologue selection, AND working/fine tuning the piece is VITAL. If you don’t have an acting teacher etch who can help, A couple of sessions (even over Skype) with a reputable coach could be the difference between success and not. This is a very tough thing to do under the best of circumstances, it’s even harder to do on your own. Best of luck to you</p>
<p>The book How to Stop Acting by Harold Guskin has some excellent advice on monologue preparation. I am by no stretch of the imagination an actor, but I read the book and actually think I could prepare a decent monologue if I followed his guidelines. </p>
<p>The book has a weird title, but it is a book that the students in my son’s BFA program were expected to have read. Another student I know who’s in a BFA program liked the book so much she slept with it under her pillow!</p>
<p>I know this doesn’t help with monologue selection (hopefully you can find a coach for that), but I think reading the book could increase your confidence level about how to work meaningfully with any material you do choose.</p>