| Mrinalini Kamath Mrinalini Kamath's plays have been performed around the country as well as in the United Kingdom, Australia and India. She was a semi-finalist for both the 2006 O'Neill and Seven Devils Playwrights Conferences and was Fluid Motion Theatre and Film's inaugural Start the Story commission recipient (2006). She won first place in the 2005 East West Players (Los Angeles, CA) Got Laughs? Asian-American Comedy Play Contest, was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the 2003 Sewanee Writers' Conference in Sewanee, Tennessee, and a finalist for the 2004 Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Three of her short plays have been work-shopped at the New Play Development Workshop of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and several have been published in the Smith and Kraus anthologies, Best Stage Scenes of 1999, Best Stage Scenes of 2000, The Best Ten Minute Plays for 3 or More Actors, 2004 and the upcoming The Best Ten Minute Plays for Two Actors, 2007.
She is a member of the Ma-Yi Theatre Writers' Lab, the Dramatists Guild, an alumnus of Youngblood, the emerging playwrights' collective at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, and a Dramatists Guild representative to the board of the New York Coalition for Professional Women in the Arts and Media (NYCWAM). Ms. Kamath received her M.F.A. in playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School of the New School University.
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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!
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Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
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NOTE: This book contains 10 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
With a diverse blend of themes, styles, and cast requirements, Great Short Plays: Volume 2 contains ten extraordinary comedies and dramas. From the oldest living human with exactly ten minutes left before the end of the world (The Last Woman on Earth by Liz Duffy Adams), to marital advice from Mohandas Gandhi to a truck driver (Gandhi Goes Fishing by Al Sjoerdsma), to ethical discord involving world hunger and cat food (Aisle 17B by John Walch), these collections deliver a little bit of everything in half the time.
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But Who's Counting
A Free Man in Paris
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God Like a Jumpstart
The John Philip Sousa Workshop
The Last Woman on Earth
The Lessons of My Father
The Miracle of Chanukah
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Hot Blooded is a collection of 76 monologues, fresh out of the fire: A young couple sleeps through the millennium. A lonely man recounts his first lap dance. A down-and-out clown spills his guts to the kids. This book contains material for men and women of all ages, with quirky and moving characters who endure messy breakups, remember dead pets, drive the big rigs, and more.
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NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 2.
David and Diane were high school sweethearts who married after Diane became pregnant. Now they live in a cramped studio apartment in Manhattan, where Diane takes care of their two-year old son. When David announces that his boss has fired him, the couple spirals into an argument that forces them to reevaluate their married life together.
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