Exceptional Monologues 2 for Men and Women

This year's edition in our Exceptional Monologues series features a wide range of selections from some of our most recent publications.

Hand selected by the Samuel French editorial staff and complete with play and scene synopses to help contextualize the monologues for actors, this book is sure to suit your audition needs – and it's a wonderful way to sample our latest publications, too.

Exceptional Monologues 2 includes such titles and authors as: Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl, The 39 Steps by Patrick Barlow, The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez, End Days by Deborah Zoe Laufer, and many more.

Contains Monologues from: The 39 Steps by Patrick Barlow Aliens with Extraordinary Skills by Saviana Stanescu Anon by Kate Robin Apostasy by Gino DiIorio Ayravana Flies or a Pretty Dish by Sheila Callaghan Back, Back, Back by Itamar Moses Beachwood Drive by Steven Leigh Morris Bulrusher by Eisa Davis Cell by Judy Klass Cockeyed by William Missouri Downs Crooked by Catherine Trieschmann Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl Easter Monday by Hal Corley Elephant Sighs by Ed Simpson End Days by Deborah Zoe Laufer Fall by Bridget Carpenter Fatboy by John Clancy For Better by Eric Coble Fuente by Cusi Cram Gee's Bend by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder God's Ear by Jenny Schwartz Gorgons by Don Nigro In the Sawtooths by Dano Madden Karlaboy by Steven Peros Kosher Lutherans by William Missouri Downs La Gringa: English Version by Carmen Rivera Lions by Vince Melocchi Living Room in Africa by Bathsheba Doran Make Believe by Kristin Anna Froberg Masked by Michael Taub Men of Tortuga by Jason Wells My First Time by Ken Davenport Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom by Jennifer Haley Out of Sterno by Deborah Zoe Laufer Pretty Theft by Adam Saymkowicz Quint and Miss Jessel at Bly by Don Nigro French Gold by Don Nigro Scab by Sheila Callaghan Showtime at First Baptist by Ron Osborne Shrinking Violets and Towering Tiger Lilies: The Divine Fallacy by Tina Howe Shtick by Henry Meyerson Sixty Miles to Silver Lake by Dan LeFranc Skin Deep by Jon Lonoff Stain by Tony Glazer Terre Haute by Edmund White That Pretty Pretty, or the Rape Play by Sheila Callaghan The Four of Us by Itamar Moses The Man in the Gray Suit and Other Plays: Knots by Lisa Soland The Thread Men by Thomas C. Dunn The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife by Del Shores Truth be Told: Sensitivity by Lisa Soland Up by Bridget Carpenter Water and Power by Richard Montoya Wedding Belles by Alan Bailey and Ronnie Claire Edwards What They Have by Kate Robin When is a Clock by Matthew Freeman The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez Also included in this series is Exceptional Monologues 1 for Men and Women .