Female Monologue from The Matthew Portraits ” . . . I could walk around this campus naked and it wouldn’t occur to any of these guys that I might be a sexual being. They’d just think I was being “natural” or something. . . “ Here’s the sixth in a 2010 monthly series of monologues. [...]
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Monthly Monologues: June
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Monthly Monologues: May
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Male Monologue from Two Thumbs Up “. . . Now I’m sorry to shock you like that and I’m sorry to have to tie you up, but I didn’t see that there was another way. . . .” Male Monologue from Two Thumbs Up Two Thumbs Up full text Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on [...]
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Featured Artist: Naveen Bahar Choudhury
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We’re thrilled to continue our Featured Artist Series here at Bliss Street Studios with Naveen Bahar Choudhury, our artist for the month of May. Naveen is a dear friend and one of the most talented emerging playwrights I know. I remember sitting in the theatre after hearing a reading of one of her plays, Lies That [...]
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Monthly Monologues: April
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Male Monologue from Police Tape ” . . . they wrap him up—like in a sheet—to immobilize him, so he won’t move during the stitches and I have to help hold him down . . . “ Male Monologue from Police Tape Police Tape full text Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare [...]
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Monthly Monologues: March
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Female Monologue from Police Tape ” . . . Last week they all left the meeting without hanging up the phone, because they had forgotten I was there . . . “ This month’s monologue is from a short play of mine that was recently preformed at the Bowery Poetry Club as part of Sticky. [...]
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Sticky
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I’m excited to announce that my short play “Police Tape” is being performed in a set of ten-minute plays in the “Sticky” series at the Bowery Poetry Club this Friday. I’d love to see you there. Here’s the details: Blue Box Productions presents Sticky* 10-minute bar plays & music Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery between [...]
Monthly Monologues: February
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Male Monologue from Thanksgiving Dinner “. . . I was too stifling, she said. I was living eight hours away from her and I was too stifling . . .” Here’s the second in a 2010 monthly series of monologues. Feel free to share these and use them for auditions (just let me know if [...]
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Monthly Monologues: January
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Female Monologue from Thanksgiving Dinner “. . . I’m at the kids table because I’m the popular aunt and all the kids want to sit with me, but really it’s because I don’t have a man in my life . . .” I remember spending hours combing through monologue books and plays looking for that illusive 2-minute monologue [...]
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Save the Date, Two Thumbs Up
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I’m excited to invite you to come to a free reading of my play Two Thumbs Up. This play is a pretty big departure in style for me from other pieces of mine you may have seen—total comedy this time without any redeeming social message. The reading is being sponsored by the New School for [...]
Opening the Curtain on Playwright Gender
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I attended Emily Glassberg Sands’ presentation of her thesis research and findings on gender discrimination against female playwrights last night. Short summary: The bar is set higher for female playwrights than for male playwrights. Slides from her presentation are available here: http://aneconomiceye.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/earlier-this-evening/opening-the-curtain-on-playwright-gender_-sands_-june-22/ The findings are discouraging–but I’m not switching to a male pen name yet. Hoping [...]
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