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    Classical Comedic - Feminine

    Helena

    from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    by William Shakespeare

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    Viola

    from Twelfth Night

    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

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    Mabel

    from An Ideal Husband

    by Oscar Wilde

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    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

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    Smirnov

    from The Bear

    by Anton Chekov

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    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

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    Desdemona

    from Othello

    by William Shakespeare

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    Electra

    from Electra

    by Sophocles

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    The Fury

    from Thyestes

    by Seneca

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    Classical Dramatic - Masculine

    Hamlet

    from Hamlet

    By William Shakespeare

    Monologue

    Biff

    from Death of a Salesman

    by Arthur Miller

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    Prometheus

    from Prometheus Unbound

    by Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Monologue

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    from Antigone

    by Sophocles

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    from The Three Sisters

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    Classical Dramatic - Neutral

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    from The Verge

    by Susan Glaspell

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    from Anna Christie

    by Eugene O'Neil

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    She

    from Enigma

    by Floyd Dell

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    The Boy

    from The Genius

    by Horace Holley

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    Thyestes

    from Thyestes

    by Seneca

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    Contemporary Comedic - Feminine

    Contemporary Comedic - Masculine

    Narrator

    from 10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse

    by Don Zolidis

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    Konstantin

    from The Seagull

    by Anya Reiss

    Monologue

    Joe

    from El Coqui Espectacular and the Evil Bottle of Doom

    by Matthew Barbot

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    Contemporary Comedic - Neutral

    Naturalist

    from Everything You Wanted...

    by Jason Pizzarello

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    Man

    from Laughing Wild

    by Christopher Durang

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    from Laughing Wild

    by Christopher Durang

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    Kay

    from Deal Me Out

    by MJ Haberstadt

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    Peyton

    from Snakes in a Lunchbox

    by Arthur M. Jolly

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    Contemporary Dramatic - Feminine

    CB’s Sister

    from Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead

    by Bert V. Royal

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    Yaz

    from Happiest Songs Play Last

    by Quiara Alegría Hudes

    Monologue

    Emily

    from Our Town

    by Thorton Wilder

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    Antigone

    from Antigone

    by Jean Anouilh

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    Henrietta

    from The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

    by Stephen Adly Gergis

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    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

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    Booth

    from Topdog / Underdog

    by Suzan-Lori Parks

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    Elliot

    from Water by the Spoonful

    by Quiara Alegría Hudes

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    Jim

    from Prodigal Son

    by John Patrick Shanley

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