<p>Can someone please name me some plays they have used monologues from for their Tisch audition? or planning on using?
I don't even know where to start.</p>
<p>The best thing you can do is look for monologues that are a little unusual. I did Echo from "Eleemosynary" and Rachel from "Ludlow Fair" and my audition woman was shocked that I managed to find them by myself. They see things like "A My Name is Alice" all the time so you don't want the big cliches; you want to stand out. Also make sure one is comedic, one is dramatic, and they're both age/experience appropriate. (Experience appropriate means that your monologue shouldn't be about rape if you've never been raped, etc.)</p>
<p>To the original poster: as someone else said above, you need to be reading lots and lots of plays and finding your monologue for yourself. If you have a high school drama teacher or a director you have worked with in community theater, those folks may also be able to help. You probably won't get that many kids posting their monologues here because actors tend to use their monologues over and over again, and don't want other people doing the monologues that they have taken the trouble to find and work on!</p>
<p>I do think it's great if you can find material that is not overdone, but the most important thing is that you do a monologue that is right for your type and age and that you can do well.</p>
<p>I disagree that you should avoid a monologue about being raped if you haven't been raped (and here's hoping that no one reading this has been!). By "age appropriate," the experts mean that a 17-year-old girl should probably not try to do, say, Lady Macbeth (though you wouldn't do that for NYU, anyway, as they do not want classical stuff.) In other words, don't try to portray a character that is such much older then you that you can't do it justice. Find a monologue spoken by a person in your general age range.</p>
<p>And make sure the monologue is from a published play and be sure to read the entire play, both so that you understand its context and so you can answer questions about it. Do NOT take a monologue from a monologue book written for teens, unless that monologue is from a published play.</p>
<p>Best of luck. NYU/Tisch's auditioners are very supportive and nice.</p>