| C. Denby Swanson is a 2007/2008 NEA/TCG Playwright in Residence with Zachary Scott Theater Center. She graduated from Smith College, the National Theatre Institute, and the University of Texas Michener Center for Writers, and has been a William Inge Playwright in Residence, a Jerome Fellow and a McKnight Advancement Grant recipient. Her work has been commissioned by the Guthrie Theater, 15 Head a Theatre Lab, Macalester College, St. Stephen's High School, and The Drilling Company and featured in the Southern Playwrights Festival, the Women Playwrights Project, the Estro-Genius Festival, and PlayLabs 2002. She is published by Smith & Kraus, Heinemann, Accompany Publishing, and Playscripts, Inc. In 2006, she was in residence at New York Stage & Film (through P73) to develop her play A Brief Narrative Of An Extraordinary Birth Of Rabbits, which was also included in the Writer/Director Lab at the Playwrights Center, and workshopped at Cornell College in Iowa as part of New Plays on Campus grant. Her play The Death Of A Cat received its world premiere at Salvage Vanguard Theater and was subsequently a finalist for the PEN Center Literary Award for Drama. Most recently, her full length adaptation, Atomic Farmgirl, was workshopped at the Culture Projects Impact Festival. She is a Core member of The Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, an alumna of the Lark Theaters Playwrights Week 2005, a former Artistic Director of Austin Script Works, and on the faculty at Southwestern University. |
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$14.95 per book
Looking for the perfect monologue? Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens is here to help. From hilarious comedy to cutting-edge drama and everything in between, an exciting selection of monologues is at your fingertips. Unlike other monologue books, the source of every monologue is easily accessible -- each play is available through one website (www.playscripts.com), where you can read nearly the entire published script online for free. From classwork to competitions to auditions, this book has you covered!
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
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| "This is an excellent monologue book for middle and high school students with applications for competition as well as use in drama, speech, or English classes." |
| --Terrilyn Fleming, The Midwest Book Review |
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Dramedy
Short, 30-35 minutes
2 females, 1 male, 7 either (10 actors possible: 2-9 females, 1-8 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
In this modern Russian fairy tale, a young man must decide whether or not to sell his wild forest mushrooms to a beautiful young woman in the Moscow marketplace. Only five things stand in the way: One, his mushrooms are radioactive. Two, three, four, and five are his twin brothers, who were born on the fingers of his right hand, a result of the accident at Chernobyl. And then there are the market's inspectors, who are hot on his trail and closing in fast...
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 60-80 minutes
8 females, 2 males (8-30 actors possible: 6-28 females, 2-24 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Loosely adapted from a 9th grade biology textbook, Everything So Far is a whimsical interweaving of several impossible stories -- a Dinosaur looking for her lost egg, a Biologist with dark intentions, a Fly with 24 hours to live, the three Fates, the All Chimp Runaway Lab Monkey Band, and a narrator, Peter, who has recently died but finds his way back in time to the moment of his most perfect peace.
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Dramedy
Short, 25-35 minutes
3 females, 4 males, 6 either
(10-13 actors possible: 2-11 females, 2-11 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
In this modern adaptation of the Greek classic Antigone, a rebellious high school student named Alice must respond to the sudden and shattering death of her older brother, the class valedictorian -- who was shot while robbing a convenience store. Up against an unyielding principal and accompanied by a bookish Geek Chorus, Alice must find her own way through personal and classical tragedy. In honoring her brother, she'll probably break some rules. Which is more important?
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Drama
Short, 40-50 minutes
3 females, 2 males, 5 either (8-16 actors possible: 3-14 females, 2-13 males)
$35.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
A young woman named Honour hangs out behind the local big-box store and does nothing with her two best friends, Fib and Tryla -- until one day Fib decides to play a joke on the local military recruiter and fake-enlist. This flippant act draws their small group into a whirlwind of intimate betrayals, but Honour has more than that on her mind -- she's been having visions of Joan of Arc since she was twelve, and now Joan's urging Honour into battle. Meanwhile, a chorus of Cardinals is putting Joan on trial for heresy. (And because they're in St. Louis, they also play baseball.) What is honor? And how do you fight for it?
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