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Arts Engagement
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Classical Comedic - Feminine

Helena

from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

by William Shakespeare

Monologue

Gwendolen

from The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

Monologue

Duchess of Berwick

from Lady Windermere's Fan

by Oscar Wilde

Monologue

Viola

from Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Monologue

Mabel

from An Ideal Husband

by Oscar Wilde

Monologue
Classical Comedic - Masculine

Benedick

from Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

Monologue

Captain

from The Phoenix

by Thomas Middleton

Monologue

Launce

from Two Gentlemen of Verona

by William Shakespeare

Monologue

Syro

from The Mandrake Root

by Niccolo Machiavelli

Monologue

Puck

from A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Monologue
Classical Comedic - Neutral

Berowne

from Love's Labour's Lost

by William Shakespeare

Monologue

Cheveley

from An Ideal Husband

by Oscar Wilde

Monologue

Smirnov

from The Bear

by Anton Chekov

Monologue

Menaechmi

from The Brothers Menaechmus

by Plautus

Monologue

Benedick

from Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

Monologue
Classical Dramatic - Feminine

Ophelia

from Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

Monologue

Juliet

from Romeo & Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Monologue

Desdemona

from Othello

by William Shakespeare

Monologue

Electra

from Electra

by Sophocles

Monologue

The Fury

from Thyestes

by Seneca

Monologue
Classical Dramatic - Masculine

Hamlet

from Hamlet

By William Shakespeare

Monologue

Biff

from Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

Monologue

Prometheus

from Prometheus Unbound

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Monologue

Haemon

from Antigone

by Sophocles

Monologue

Chebutikin

from The Three Sisters

by Anton Chekov

Monologue
Classical Dramatic - Neutral

Adelaide

from The Verge

by Susan Glaspell

Monologue

Anna

from Anna Christie

by Eugene O'Neil

Monologue

She

from Enigma

by Floyd Dell

Monologue

The Boy

from The Genius

by Horace Holley

Monologue

Thyestes

from Thyestes

by Seneca

Monologue
Contemporary Comedic - Feminine

Gillian

from Dags

by Deborah Oswald

Monologue

Mrs. Gomez

from Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven

by Reina Hardy

Monologue

Carnelle

from Miss Firecracker Contest

by Beth Henley

Monologue

Celia

from Elsewhere

by Adam Szymkowicz

Monologue

Mrs. Pringle

from Fourteen

by Alice Gerstenberg

Monologue
Contemporary Comedic - Masculine

Konstantin

from The Seagull

by Anya Reiss

Monologue

Joe

from El Coqui Espectacular and the Evil Bottle of Doom

by Matthew Barbot

Monologue

Gregory

from Overruled

by George Bernard Shaw

Monologue

Man

from Laughing Wild

by Christopher Durang

Monologue

Steve

from Fat Cat Killers

by Adam Szymkowicz

Monologue
Contemporary Comedic - Neutral

Naturalist

from Everything You Wanted...

by Jason Pizzarello

Monologue

Woman

from Laughing Wild

by Christopher Durang

Monologue

Kay

from Deal Me Out

by MJ Haberstadt

Monologue

Peyton

from Snakes in a Lunchbox

by Arthur M. Jolly

Monologue

Narrator

from 10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse

by Don Zolidis

Monologue
Contemporary Dramatic - Feminine

CB’s Sister

from Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead

by Bert V. Royal

Monologue

Emily

from Our Town

by Thorton Wilder

Monologue

Antigone

from Antigone

by Jean Anouilh

Monologue

Henrietta

from The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

by Stephen Adly Gergis

Monologue

Catherine

from Proof

by David Auburn

Monologue
Contemporary Dramatic - Masculine

CB

from Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead

by Bert V. Royal

Monologue

Jason

from Rabbit Hole

by David Lindsay Abaire

Monologue

Booth

from Topdog / Underdog

by Suzan-Lori Parks

Monologue

Elliot

from Water by the Spoonful

by Quiara Alegría Hudes

Monologue

Chris

from All My Sons

by Arthur Miller

Monologue
Contemporary Dramatic
- Neutral

Jim

from Prodigal Son

by John Patrick Shanley

Monologue

Yaz

from Happiest Songs Play Last

by Quiara Alegría Hudes

Monologue

Sasha

from Ivanov

by Anton Chekov

Monologue

Nim

from Heart of Snow

by Adam Szymkowicz

Monologue

Ken

from Red

by John Logan

Monologue
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