Table of Contents
Monologues for Girls 1
1 Toes for Two 3
2 The Big Cheese 5
3 The Runaway 8
4 Rainy Days 10
5 Tennis, Anyone? 12
6 The Betrayal 14
7 Who's Not That into Who? 16
8 Curiosity and Cashews 18
9 Would You Read the Label? 20
10 Better Left Unsaid 21
11 They Do 24
12 What Can I Say? 26
13 Love at First Sight 28
14 Sixteen Candles 30
15 A Central Park Moon 33
16 The Idiot's Daughter 36
17 Conversation from a First Date 38
18 Missing 40
19 Scenes from the Tree House 42
20 The Interview 44
21 Black Out 46
22 And His Name was Tanner Lawrie 48
23 Monologues for Moynihan 50
24 Thick-Skinned 52
25 The Swap Shop 54
26 Downsized 56
27 A Summer Story 58
28 The Girl Next Door 60
29 The Divorce 62
30 The Color of Love 65
31 Talking to Myself 67
32 The Women 69
33 The Experiment 71
34 48 States in 52 Weeks 75
35 Unplugged 78
36 I Just Called to Say I Loathe You 80
37 A Deeper Depression 82
38 Our First Kiss 84
39 Girl Painter 86
40 Her "Me Song" 89
41 An Actress's Nightmare 91
42 What Bugs Me 93
43 Nothing Ever Happens 95
44 The Angry Girl 97
45 Gone Fishin' 99
46 Blowout 101
47 What a Difference a Day Makes 103
48 Schadenfreude 105
49 The Doctor Is In? 107
50 Interrupted 109
Monologues for Guys 111
1 The Problem Is … 113
2 Bagging It 115
3 I Saw Everything 117
4 Funny People 119
5 Understandin' Mama 121
6 Double Standard 124
7 The Talk 126
8 Normal 128
9 The Room at the End of the Hall 130
10 He Just Doesn't Get It 132
11 Paranoia 134
12 Jealousy 136
13 Not Your Everyday Valedictorian 138
14 The King of Monologues 140
15 The First Date 142
16 The Breakup 144
17 Why? 146
18 I Could Have Been Fred Astaire 148
19 Unconditional Love 150
20 A Simple Life 152
21 Self-Fulfilling Prophecy 153
22 Go Ahead and Cry 155
23 The Dream 157
24 Who Is That Masked Man? 158
25 Here I Sit 160
26 Halfway 162
27 The Invasion 164
28 Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid 166
29 Student Director 168
30 The Weekend 171
31 The Prom or the Tires 173
32 I Know 176
33 Weird 178
34 Keep Out 180
35 We've Come a Long Way 181
36 Spring Break 182
37 Are You Awake? 184
38 The Middle Child 186
39 Welcome to Wanda and Wally's World 188
40 The Scoop 189
41 Shortcut 191
42 The Interview 193
43 Superlatives 195
44 If Money Grew on Trees 197
45 Friends Forever? 199
46 Who Are You? 201
47 Wishing You Were Here 204
48 The Finish Line 206
49 One Summer Day 208
50 I Fly 210
About the Author 213