LGBTQ Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny

by Alisha Gaddis

Overview

The first and only book of its kind, this cutting-edge and incredibly hysterical monologue book is specifically for actors auditioning for LGBTQ roles. LGBTQ Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny features works by LGBT writers and comics (and their allies) who have written and/or performed for Comedy Central, Backstage magazine, NBC, the Huffington Post, the Onion, Second City, E!, and many more. This collection is the go-to source for the comedic monologue needs of actors seeking LGBT material, as well as a paean to LGBT characters and artists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781495025150
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/01/2016
Series:	Applause Acting Series
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Alisha Gaddis (Los Angeles, CA) is an Emmy and Latin Grammy Award winner, humorist, writer, and performer. She is a proud AEA and SAG AFTRA member, having performed on Broadway, at the Sydney Opera House, on the Comedy Central Stage, and on numerous television shows. Gaddis is executive producer and star of Lishy Lou and Lucky Too on PBS's Emmy Award-winning The Friday Zone. She is the co-founder (along with her husband) of Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band, who have been called “true stars...that burst with energy” by NPR's All Things Considered. An alumna of New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, Gaddis performs comedy as part of her nationally touring solo shows and at Improv West, Upright Citizens Brigade, and the Comedy Store. She is the editor of five other books in Applause's Monologues That Are Actually Funny series.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Weeping Willows Never Cry Alisha Gaddis 1

Breaking Bad News Leah Mann 6

Dostoyevsky Secret Kate Huffman 10

The Slumber Party Kayla Cagan 13

Poem Alessandra Rizzotti 15

Thanksbringing Corrine Glazer 18

Death's a Drag Leah Mann 21

Sugar Coat It Ilana Turner 25

Bi the Way Jenny Purple 28

Miss USA Choreographer Jamison Scala 32

Severance Corrine Glazer 34

For Manifred Leah Mann 39

Golf Alessandra Rizzotti 44

I'm Very Anxious, so Here Are My Needs for Your House Party Mike Glazer 46

Ethereal Epiphany Darina Parker 49

Fried Chicken Benjamin Ridge 52

A Lifeline Kyle T. Wilson 55

Chicks Leah Mann 58

I Need a Dollar Jamison Scala 63

Cold as Ice Jessica Glassberg 66

Portrait, of an Angel Leah Mann 70

Britney's#1 Fan Jamison Scala 74

A Formal Presentation JP Karliak 78

Fairy Godmother Leah Mann 82

Feeling Suicidal Alessandra Rizzotti 86

You Need Therapy from Therapy Jamison Scala 89

Own That Shit Kyle T. Wilson 91

Parting Words Leah Mann 94

The Extra Mile Nina Ki 98

Love Makes You Do the Craziest Things Cathy Lewis 104

Moving Boxes Moll Green 107

Liberal Propaganda Tiffany E. Babb 111

Chubz Josh Ginsburg 115

Work It Out Leah Mann 117

The Art of Cruising Kyle T. Wilson 12 122

Dining with Eleanor Roosevelt Leah Mann 126

QVC Jamison Scala 130

Two Sides of the Same Coin Darina Parker 133

Fake It Till You Make It: A Classroom Monologue Tyler Gillespie 136

The Siren's Lament Leah Mann 139

I Don't Have to Explain What Love Is Alessandra Rizzotti 143

Obsessed with Odor in the Air Libby Doyne 146

The Problem, Is … (the Starbucks Monologue) Tiffany E. Babb 149

Game Over Leah Mann 153

Girls Like Us Jennifer Dickinson 157

Hmmm … Benjamin Ridge 160

When We Were Still Us Darina Parker 164

Judy's Guy Friday Jamison Scala 167

If Only Tiffany E. Babb 169

The Talk Leah Mann 172

Transition Alessandra Rizzotti 178

Uber Uber Lisa Gopman 182

Meat Is Murder Corrine Glazer 185

Pray the Gay Away Jamison Scala 189

Threes a Crowd Leah Mann 191

Contributors 197

Acknowledgments 211