Overdone Monologues

Playwright/Year first produced/Character/Identifying line or topic
ACKERMANN/Marcus is Walking/2002/Caitlin/Monologue about flying in airplane
AUBURN/Proof/2000/CATHERINE/I lived with him
BAITZ/Other Desert Cities/2011/BROOKE’S monologues
BAITZ/The End of the Day/1990/HELEN/I think you married me to become an American citizen
BALL/Five Women Wearing the Same Dress/1993/GEORGANNE/Tommy Valentine
BALL/Five Women Wearing the Same Dress/1993/ALL OTHERS
BERMAN/2010/Until We Find Each Other/SOPHY/Here’s me….
BERMAN/Hunting and Gathering/2008/BESS/Men don’t know they want to be in relationship
BERMAN/Smashing/2003/Madonna and I were tigers in another life
BOCK/Drunken City/2008/MARNIE/All speeches about getting married
BOCK/The Receptionist/2007/BEVERLY/That’s a good pen
BOGOSIAN/Talk Radio/1985/DENISE/Spoon in the garbage disposal
BOGOSIAN/Talk Radio/1985/LINDA/Sleeping with Barry Champlain
BRADFORD/Promedy/2009/ALL
BRUNSTETTER/Be A Good Little Widow/2011/MELODY/Fettucine monster
CARIANI/Almost, Maine/2004/WOMAN/Speech about dead husband
CRAVIATO/Pizza Man/1991/JULIE/I was the girl who had everything
CRISTOFER/Shadow Box/1975/All female monologues
CRISTOFER/Lady and the Clarinet/1989/LUBA/Vomiting on desk of lover’s secretary
D'AMOUR/Detroit/2010/SHARON/Neighbors
DANIELS/Apartment 3A/1996/ANNIE/Sesame Street telethon speech
DAVIS/Goodbye Charles/2012/I ate the divorce papers
DORFMAN/Death and the Maiden/1991/PAULINA/When I heard his voice last night
DURANG/Betty’s Summer Vacation/1999/BETTY/End of play monologue
DURANG/Beyond Therapy/1981/ALL
DURANG/'Dentitiy Crisis/1978/JANE/Peter Pan monologue
DURANG/Laughing Wild/1987/WOMAN/Tunafish monologue
DURANG/The Marriage of Bette & Boo/1973/ALL
DURANG/Sister Mary Ignatius…/1979/Speech about mother’s death
EPHRON/Love, Loss and What I Wore/2008/ALL
FEIFFER/Feiffer’s People/1968/ALL
FEIFFER/Hold Me!/1977/ALL
FEIFFER/Little Murders/1966/Patsy
FORNES/Fefu and her Friends/1977/ALL
GARDNER/A Thousand Clowns/1962/SANDRA/I didn't go to work this morning (blouse speech)
GERSHE/Butterflies are Free/1969/Jill Tanner/ALL
GESNER/LIPPA/You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown/1967/ALL
GILMAN/Spinning into Butter/1999/SARAH/ALL
GIONFRIDDO/U.S. Drag/2008/ALLISON/Monologue about wanting fame and money
GROFF/Orange Lemon Egg Canary/2006/HENRIETTA/Magician monologue
GUARE/Marco Polo Sings A Solo/1977/DIANE/I really started cookin’ when I was eight
GUARE/Landscape of the Body/1984/ROSALIS/Gorilla suit - porn audition speech
GUARE/House of Blue Leaves/1986/Bananas/The Green Latrine
GUARE/House of Blue Leaves/1986/BUNNY/I won’t cook for you til you marry me
GUEST/Waiting for Guffman/1996/Libby Mae Brown’s audition (bonus features)
HAMPTON/ Dangerous Liaisons/1985/ALL
HANLEY/Slow Dance on the Killing Ground/1970/ROSIE/Losing virginity speech
HARLING/Steel Magnolias/1989/ALL
HARRINGTON/Night Luster/1983/ROMA/I don’t think people see me…voice to die for…etc
HEIMEL/A Girl’s Guide to Chaos/1988/ALL
HENLEY/Crimes of the Heart/1979/ALL
HERZOG/After the Revolution/2010/EMMA/List read to her father
HOWE/The Art of Dining/1979/ELIZABETH BARROW COLT/Mealtime was the much the same
HOWE/Painting Churches/1983/ALL
IIZUKA/Aloha Say the Pretty Girls/1999/ALL
JOHNSON/Brilliant Traces/1988/ROSANNAH/I was standing in the back of the church
JOHNSON/Brilliant Traces/1988/ROSANNAH/Extraterrestrials
JOSEPH/Gruesome Playground Injuries/2009/KAYLEEN/You can’t marry that girl, Doug…”
KANE/4:48 Psychosis/2000/ALL
KAYSEN/Girl, Interrupted/1999/ALL
KEILLOR/Happy to Be Here/1999/Snow White speech
KORDER/Search and Destroy/1992/MARIE/Movie pitch/penis claw monologue
KRAMER/Wall of Water/1998//Last cigarette speech
KRON/Well/2004/Costume party monologue
KUSHNER/Angels in America: Perestroika/1992/HARPER/Night flight to San Francisco…
KUSHNER/A Bright Room Called Day/1987/PAULINKA/Black poodle as the devil
KUSHNER/A Bright Room Called Day/1987/ZILLAH/Dear Mr. President
LABUTE/Autobahn/2006/Stalking the guy
LABUTE/Autobahn/2003/Most or All
LABUTE/Fat Pig/2004/Most or All
LABUTE/Mercy Seat/2002/Most or All
LABUTE/Reasons to Be Pretty/2008/Most or All
LABUTE/The Shape of Things/2001/Most or All
LABUTE/Some Girls/2005/Most or All
LETTS/August: Osage County/2009/KAREN/That pillow was a better husband…
LINDSAY-ABAIRE/History Lesson/2002/Maggie/ALL
LINDSAY-ABAIRE/Wonder of the World/2001/Barbie Head Monologue
LINDSAY-ABAIRE/Rabbit Hole/2006/BECCA/Hitting woman in supermarket
LINDSAY-ABAIRE/Rabbit Hole/2006/NAT/Remember Maureen Bailey
LONERGAN/Lobby Hero/2001/DAWN/ALL
LUCAS/Blue Window/1984/LIBBY/Falling off the balcony
LUCAS/Reckless/1988/ALL
MAMET/Oleanna/1992/CAROL/You did it to me. Here.
MAMET/Oleanna/CAROL/1992/Other monologues
MARBER/Closer/2000/ALICE/I like your bed
MARGULIES/Collected Stories/1996/Lisa/ALL
MARTIN/Talking With/1981/ALL
MARTIN/Vital Signs/1989/ALL
MARTIN/Picasso at the Lapin Agile/1998/SUZANNE/Sleeping with Picasso
MARTIN/Picasso at the Lapin Agile/1998/ALL OTHERS
MARTIN/Patter for the Floating Lady/1995/ANGIE/Sand in the tennis shoe
MASTERS/Spoon River Anthology/1915/ALL
MASTRIOSIMONE/Woolgatherer/1979/ALL
MASTRIOSIMONE/Extremities/1980/ALL
MASTRIOSIMONE/Shivaree/1983/SHIVAREE/Well sport you can dance for dance
MAY/Not Enough Rope/1962/Edith/All
MCMILLAN/Lungs/2011/W/Monologue about always having wanted a baby
MCMILLAN/People, Places and Things/2015/ALL
MCNALLY/Bad Habits/Dolly/1971/Tropical Fish
MCNALLY/Frankie and Johnny and the Claire de Lune/1987/FRANKIE/My grandmother…
MEE/Big Love/2001/All Female
MEE/True Love/2000/All Female
MILLER/Penetration Play/2004/RAIN/Last night wasn’t….
MINGHELLA/1988/Cigarettes and Chocolate/GEMMA/All versions
MOORE/American Klepto/2007/WOMAN/Petrified wood monologue
MURRAY-SMITH/Honor/1995/SOPHIE/I wish I was…like you
MURRELL/Waiting for the Parade/1977/CATHERINE/When Billy and I were first married
NASH/The Rainmaker/1954/LIZZIE/ALL
NEWMAN/Quilters/NA/Sunbonnet Sue
NIGRO/Seascape with Sharks and Dancer/1985/TRACY/Problem with loving squashable animals
NORMAN/Getting Out/1977/ARLIE/Frog squishing speech
NORMAN/'Night Mother/1982/JESSIE/I am what became of your child
PATRICK/Kennedy's Children/1973/CARLA/I wanted to be a sex goddess
PIELMEIRER/Agnes of God/1979/ALL
RABE/Hurlyburly/1984/ALL
RABE/In the Boom Boom Room/1973/CHRISSY/…and a piece of meat is all I am
RABE/In the Boom Boom Room/1973/ALL OTHERS
RAPP/Stone Cold Dead Serious/2003/SHAYLEE/Tomato baby
REBECK/Bad Dates/2003/All
REBECK/Loose Knit/1994/MARGIEI want you to f*** me in that car of yours
REBECK/Mauritius/2006/Stamp monologue
REBECK/The Scene/2006/CLEA/At the party
REBECK/The Scene/2006/CLEA/I’m from Ohio, isn’t that hilarious?
REBECK/Spike Heels/1994/GEORGIE/Who made up these rules
REBECK/Spike Heels/1994/ALL OTHERS
RICKMAN/CORRIE/My Name is Rachel Corrie/2003/Rachel/All
ROYAL/Dog Sees God/2005/VAN’S SISTER/Burn the bitch’s hair off
RUDNICK/*FILM*/In And Out/”Does anyone here know… Funny Lady?”
RUDNICK/Valhalla/2004/SALLY/Feelings for James Avery
RUHL/Clean House/2004/MATILDE/The deaths of her laughing parents
RUHL/Clean House/2003/VIRGINIA/I always clean my own house
RUHL/Dead Man’s Cell Phone/2007/JEAN/You know what’s funny? I never had a cell phone
RUHL/Dead Man’s Cell Phone/2007/JEAN/Woman on phone saying “Shit, shit”
RUHL/Melancholy Play/2001/TILLIE/All
SAYLES/Passion Fish (film)/1992/Anal probe speech
SHANGE/For Colored Girls…./1975/ALL
SHANLEY/The Big Funk/1990/JILL/I’m talking to you from my subconscious mind
SHANLEY/The Dreamer Examines His Pillow/1985/Donna/ALL
SHANLEY/Savage in Limbo/1984/SAVAGE/I feel strong
SHANLEY/Savage in Limbo/1984/ALL OTHERS
SHANLEY/Where’s my Money?/2002/ALL
SHANLEY/Women of Manhattan/1985/RHONDA/Why she keeps his tennis shoes
SHANLEY/Women of Manhattan/1985/ALL OTHERS
SHENGOLD/Lives of the Great Waitresses/1996/TAMMIE SUE/Ugly guy who was great in bed
SHEPARD/Buried Child/1978/SHELLEY/ALL
SHEPARD/Cowboy Mouth/1971/CAVALE/You're so neat - ugly duckling speech
SHEPARD/Fool for Love/1983/MAE/ALL
SHEPARD/Icarus’ Mother/1965/JILL/Peeing on the beach speech
SHINN/Other People/2000/PETRA/Fish stew speech
SILVER et al /A…My Name is Alice/1983/WOMAN/Yelling at the jock strap in the wash
SILVER et al/A…My Name is Still Alice/1984/WOMAN/Bridal registry
SILVER/Fat Men In Skirts/1991/POPO MARTIN/My name is Popo Martin
SILVER/The Food Chain/1994/Amanda/Waiter asked if I was alone
SILVER/The Maiden’s Prayer/1998/Libby/Slept with fat man from bar
SIMON/Star Spangled Girl/1966
SOPHIE/Mr. Cornell, ah have tried to be neighborly
SIMON/Brighton Beach Memoirs/1983/NORA/Papa’s coat pocket
SIMON/Chapter Two/1977/Jennie/You know what you want better than me George
SIMON/Last of the Red Hot Lovers/1969/JEANETTE/Do you know Charlotte Korman
SIMON/Virtually any female character from Neil Simon’s major plays
SLADE/Romantic Comedy/1979/PHOEBE/Marshmallows out the nose
SNYDER/The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker/1964/BeeBee/ALL
SONDHEIM/Assassins/1990
SQUEAKY FROMME/Charlie Manson speech
SON/Stop Kiss/1998/CALLIE/Talking to unconscious girlfriend in hospital
TAYLOR&BOLOGNA/Lovers and Other Strangers/1968/ALL
TESICH/Passing Game/1977/JULIE/Richard, are you asleep?
TOPOR/Nuts/1980/CLAUDIA/I used to say I love you to the moon
TOPOR/Nuts/1980/CLAUDIA/ALL OTHERS
TREEM/A Feminine Ending/ALL
VOGEL/How I Learned to Drive/1997/ALL
WADE/Key Exchange/1986/LISA/Father built sandbox for dying mother to watch kids
WAGNER/Search for Signs of Intelligent Life…/1985/ALL
WASSERSTEIN/Heidi Chronicles/1988/ALL
WASSERSTEIN/Isn’t It Romantic?/1981/ALL
WASSERSTEIN/Uncommon Women and Others/1975/ALL
WEISMAN/Be Aggressive/2001/Laura/Remembering her mother
WELLER/Split/1977/MARGE/Stevie Wonder monologue
WILSON/Fences/1983/Rose/ALL
WILSON/Burn This/1987/ANNA/Insects pinned to the wall
WILSON/The Gingham Dog/1968/GLORIA/I used to pray, I really did
WOLFE/The Colored Museum/1986/TOPSY/Yoho! Party! Party!
WRIGHT/The Pavillion/2005/KARI/ALL
ZECCOLA/Scuba Lessons/1997/KELLY/Did you ever wake up and know it was going to be your day?

Playwright/Year first produced/Character/Identifying line or topic
ALBEE/Zoo Story/1959/JERRY/Jerry and the dog
ANDERSON/I Never Sang for my Father/1967/GENE/That night I left my father’s house
ANDERSON/I Never Sang for my Father/1967/ALL OTHERS
ANDERSON/Tea and Sympathy/1953/Tom
BAITZ/Ten Unknowns/2001/Judd/Speeches to Malcolm
BAITZ/Other Desert Cities/2012/TRIP/Revelations about his life to his sister
BAITZ/Substance of Fire/1992MARTIN/I spent most of 16th yr getting chemotherapy
BAITZ/Substance of Fire/1991/MARTIN/Publish Hustler or publish Proust
BOGOSIAN/The Fan, from Pounding Nails in the Ground with My Forehead/1993
BOGOSIAN/Suburbia/1994/JEFF/about moving to New York City
CRISTOFER/Shadow Box/1977/MARK/We're dying here lady…
CRISTOFER/Shadow Box/1977/MARK/When I met Brian…
CRISTOFER/Lady and the Clarinet/1989/JACK/Swimming in the toilet bowl
DAVIS/Mass Appeal/1981/MARK/Dead goldfish speechx
DRESSER/Rounding Third/2002/Coach speaking to kids
DURANG/The Actor's Nightmare/1981/GEORGE SPELVIN/Any of it
DURANG/Baby with the Bathwater/1983/DAISY/…I looked more like a boy than a girl
DURANG/Laughing Wild/1987/MAN/Tunafish monologue
DURANG/The Marriage of Bette & Boo/1973/ALL
FEIFFER/Feiffer’s People/1968/ALL
FEIFFER/Hold Me!/1977/ALL
FODOR/100 Saints You Should Know/2007/MATTHEW/These are the pictures…
GESNER/LIPPA/You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown/1967/ALL
GREENBERG/The American Plan/1990/NICK/I’m a rambling wreck
GREENBERG/Take Me Out/2002/MASON/Baseball convert speech
GREENBERG/Three Days of Rain/1998/Walker/ALL
GUARE/House of Blue Leaves/1986/Ronnie/ALL
GUARE/Six Degrees of Separation/1990/RICK/ Rainbow Room night
GUIRGIS/Jesus Hopped the A Train/2001/Angel/Skiing in Aspen
HERZOG/4000 Miles/2012/LEO/Chicken crash monologue
HOROVITZ/It's Called the Sugar Plum/1968/ZUCKERMAN/Strudel-dee
HOROWITZ/It’s Called the Sugarplum/1968/ZUCKERMAN/Cellar door
IIZUKA/Aloha Say the Pretty Girls/1999/ALL
JOHNSON/Brilliant Traces/1988/HENRY HARRY/ALL
KATIMS/The Man Who Couldn’t Dance/2009/MAN/All versions
KAUFMAN & TECTONIC/Laramie Project/2000/ZEBEDIAH/Monologue competition
KORDER/Boys’ Life/1988/ALL
KORDER/Search and Destroy/1992/RON/ Baseball bat night at Shea stadium
KRAMER/Wall of Water/1998/ALL
LABUTE/Fat Pig/2004/ALL
LABUTE/Shape of Things/2002/Monologue at end about “This isn’t art”
LINDSAY-ABAIRE/Rabbit Hole/2005/JASON/Dear Mr. and Mrs. Corbett
LOGAN/Red/2011/KEN/…”try working for you for a living”
LONERGAN/This is Our Youth/1996/ALL
LONERGAN/Lobby Hero/2001/ALL
MAMET/American Buffalo/1992/TEACH/ALL
MAMET/Glengarry Glen Ross/1983/ALL
MAMET/Lakeboat/1970/ALL
MAMET/Sexual Perversity in Chicago/1974/BERNIE/Girl in the flak suit speech
MAMET/Speed the Plow/1988/ALL
MARGULIES/Dinner with Friends/1998/ALL
MARTIN/Jack and Jill/1996/JACK/Nice, right?
MASTERS/Spoon River Anthology/1915/ALL
McCLURE/Lone Star/1980/ALL
McDONAGH/The Pillowman/2003/ALL
MEE/Big Love/1999/Giuliano and Nikos monologues
MEE/True Love/2000/All Male
MOSES/The Four of Us/2008/All
PAPE/Say Goodnight Gracie/1978/JERRY/Chunky turkey soup speech
RABE/Hurlyburly/1984/ALL
RAPP/Red Light Winter/2005/ALL
REBECK/Dead Accounts/2012/JACK/Cheese Coney-New York food monologue
RIDLEY/The Pitchfork Disney/1991/PRESLEY/Frying the little green snake
RUDNICK/I Hate Hamlet/1991/ANDREW/Acting ‘To be or not to be’
SCHULNER/Infinite Ache/2005/CHARLES/Monologue about love
SHAFFER/Equus/1973/ALAN/ALL
SHANLEY/Beggars in the House of Plenty/1991/JOHN/ALL
SHANLEY/Danny and the Deep Blue Sea/1983/DANNY/ALL
SHANLEY/Italian-American Reconciliation/1989/ALL
SHANLEY/Prodigal Son/2016/JIM/Why is it your school?
SHEPARD/A Lie of the Mind/1985/JAKE/She was going to these goddamn rehearsals
SHERMAN/Sophistry/1993/ALL
SHERMAN/Women and Wallace/1996/WALLACE/ALL
SILVER/Free Will and Wanton Lust/1994/PHILIP/I don’t find my sex organs attractive
SILVER/Pterodactyls/1993/TODD/Dinosaur speech
SILVER/Raised in Captivity/1995/SEBASTIAN/Mr. Giggles the Clown
SIMON/Any/Virtually any young man’s monologue from Neil Simon’s major plays
SIMON/Biloxi Blues/1984/EUGENE/I was in the latrine…
SIMON/Jake’s Women/1992/JAKE/ALL
SONDHEIM/Assassins/1990/SAM BYCK/Speech about hijacking airplane
STOPPARD/Rosencrantz and Guildenstern…/1966/ROSENCRANTZ/Lying in a box
TAYLOR&BOLOGNA/Lovers and Other Strangers/1968/ALL
TESICH/Division Street/1980/ALL MEN'S/(orgasm, boat people, etc.)
WELLER/Loose Ends/1979/PAUL/Happy Birthday. Do you like it? (abortion speech)
WILSON/Burn This/1987/PALE/1st Monologue
WILSON/Fifth of July/1980/ALL
WRIGHT/The Pavillion/2005/PETER/ALL