Here are my suggestions on some one minute monologues for kids that will show off your actor at their next audition! What is a Dramatic Monologue for Kids?Ī monologue is simply a speech that is given to an imaginary audience of one or more people. In this blog post, I want to make it easy for you and the young actor or actors in your life, whether you’re a parent or arts educator- or perhaps a young actor yourself! Oftentimes, my student is intimidated at all the options out there and just doesn’t know how or where to begin! My students and I have noticed that most audition notices mirror those of a professional adult actor, where you need to prepare and memorize a one minute monologue. Here’s the reality: it’s MUCH more competitive these days for all ages, and that includes kids at the non-professional level as well. I have noticed something has changed as far as audition requirements go, though! Gone are the days when a kid can pretty much just show up to an audition, and do something simple and get cast… because the artistic staff like their personality. More specifically, it’s cool for kids! This has made my life as an acting teacher very enriching and interesting indeed. It seems like all of a sudden theater and acting is “cool”. Professional actors certainly know this, but it is advantageous for those that are active in community theater or school theater, too! Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.Monologues are an essential part of a stage actor’s career, and that includes actors from ALL walks of life! It doesn’t matter what sort of actor you are – comedic, dramatic, classical or contemporary…you will need a variety of short funny monologues to have ready if you’re auditioning for acting work. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl. Cool Girls never get angry they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl.
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