MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN

CONTEMPORARY MONOLOGUES
Play
Abundance

Playwright
Beth Henley

Character
Macon

Age
19

Scene #
Page 7

The Auditioners
August: Osage
County

Rand
Tracy Letts

Jean

13 (?)

Baltimore Waltz

Paula Vogel

Anne

Late 20s
to mid 30s

Mom, stop it!

Yes, Im okay,
whats the
matter with
you?...
Cut together
something
Act 1 scene 3
(?)

Beginnings

Patty Gideon
Sloan
Charles Mee
William Inge

Meg

20s

Act 2 pg. 64

Jacque

20

Pg.85

Cagebirds

David
Campton

Wild One

16-18

Page 36

Charge
The Childrens Hour

Eric Kaiser
Lillian
Hellman

Martha
Karen

30
20s

Scene 3
Page 69

Big Love
Bus Rileys Back in
Town

Summary
Macon, anxious about her new adventures, seeks a friend in a random stranger,
who she assumes is like her.
multiple monologues of actors auditioning
Jean is a mislead 13 year old girl who prides herself on being rebellious. She
catches the eye of her uncle who molests her. He is caught and she is now
trying to put out the coals her parents are stirring up about it.

Anne has just been diagnosed with Acquired Toilet Disease A deadly disease
she has acquired from working at the elementary school as a teacher and
occasionally using the students toilet.
Play Event: Willy wants to teach the two human beings he created the right
things, but it all falls apart once they begin to act out.
Women decide that they won't get married when being forced to
Bus Riley has finally come home from the navy and his previous girlfriend
Jacque have been reunited and Jacque is trying to comfort Bus and wants to
possibly rekindle some flames and in this scene she tries to take him to the old
times and how great they used to be. She also confesses to him that even
though he was gone her love never stopped.
All of these girls have been trapped for years not knowing what the outside
world is like. The new girl, Wild one wants to rebel and free these girls who
dont know what freedom really is. She wants to save these girls by trying to
break them out, but they refuse to follow her.
Martha is explaining how interesting the world outside is to her husband.
Devastated over the loss of her friend, Karen tries to pin everything on Tilford
and diminish her.

The Childrens Hour

Lillian
Hellman

Mary

14

Page 36

The Dark at the Top

of the Stairs

William Inge

Lottie

30s-40s

The Day They Shot

John Lennon
The Debutante Ball

James
McClure
Beth Henley

Sally

16

Page 47

Teddy

19

Page 39

Dog Sees God

Burt V. Royal

Vans Sister

Late teens

The Dreamer
Examines his Pillow

John Patrick
Shanley

Donna

Mid
20s ??

Epic Proportions

Larry Cone &

David Crane

Louise
Goldman

20s

I was
pregnant.
Dont worry it
wasnt
yours
Youre a bum
and your nuts
and you broke
my heart even
though I loved
you
Pg. 6
Pg. 15

Fat Kids on Fire

Bekah
Brunstetter

MS

16

Act 1 Scene 1

Fat Men in Skirts

Nikki Silver

Popo

Late teens

Letter to her
parents

In order to get out of school, Mary creates an elaborate lie and tells her
grandmother, trying to play it off as the grandmother becoming everyones
hero if she helps.
Lottie confesses to her sister that she never experienced any satisfaction in bed
with her husband.
Sally is coping with her sudden breakup and acts out by belittling her ex for
leaving her.
Teddy is trying to prove to her maid that she is an awful person and doesnt
want pity
Vans sister is a rough around the ages, mislead teenager locked in a juvenile
psych ward for setting a girls hair on fire. Shes tough and care free but shes
still very loyal especially to her friends and brother.

Donna is Hispanic I believe and is in love with Tommy, a no good bum who
does nothing and who also slept with her sister. This is what I remember but
its a very interesting script.

Play Event: After two brothers take jobs as extras in a movie their lives are
turned around when they become important figures in the movie and fall in
love with the same girl.
Character Event: After moving up from the assistant director in charge of
extras to the lead in a movie, she has to choose between two brothers that have
fallen love with her.
MS is the awkward girl in the fat camp that just wants to fit in and be liked.
She is a repeating camper and is always involved in the musicals that they
perform. The new pretty girl is the talk of the town and this is who she is
talking to in the scene and MS just wants the new girl to come to the show and
become her friend.
Popo is an ex cheerleader as well as a delusional schizophrenic in a juvenile
psych ward. She falls in love with Bishop Hogan who killed his parents and ate
them. He is also a patient.

Fat Men in Skirts

The Fly

Nicky Silver
Walter Wykes

Phyllis
Emma

40s
20s

51
Scene 1, Page
17

Frame 312
Gwen and Gwen
Gut Girls

Keith Reddin
Nancy Kiefer
Sarah Daniels

Stephanie
-Ellen

Early 20s
-20s-30s

Act 1 Scene 1
Many possible

House of Blue
Leaves
Look Back in Anger

John Guare

Bananas
Shaughnessy
Alison

44

The Marriage of
Bette and Boo

Christopher
Durang

Fr. Donnally

28

Act I, scene 1.
14-19
Act III, scene
2. 78
Late 40s early
50s

The Miracle Worker

William
Gibson

Anne

20

The Metal Children

Naomi In The Living
Room
The Necklace

Adam Rapp
Christopher
Durang
Guy De
Maupassant
Lee Blessing

Vera
Naomi

16
40s

47
Scene 1

Mathilde
Loisel
Catherine

Mid 20s

Scene 1. 18-20

22

Page 53

Marsha
Norman

Mama

55

Pg. 78

Nice People
Dancing to Good
Country Music
Night Mother

John Osborne

Early 30s

Attractive and sophisticated woman, but insecure

Emma talks to Murray, a famous novelist at a bar. She wants something out of
him, so when he tries to seduce her she goes along with it so she can get him to
talk to her husband because her husband is obsessed with Murrays novels.
Stephanie admits to her mom she is on depression meds.
The two Gwens struggle to gain control of one life.
Play Event: A group of gut girls love the freedoms and the money that the get,
but a lady comes into their life to transform them into women that are more
ladylike, so that they can get jobs or husbands when technology takes over
their jobs.
Character Event: Ellen doesnt want to transform into this perfect lady that
the world she lives in wants her to be, so she tries everything she can to keep
the way of life that she has.
Artie finds out how useless his dreams seem to be with two women behind his
back constantly pestering him.
As a couple continues to battle through a rocky message, Alison learns to stand
up for herself.
Bette is having trouble having kids and becomes slumped into a mad state
effecting her friends and family.
Play Event: A young teacher, who is partially blind, moves into the Kellers
house to help teach their daughter, Helen Keller, who is deaf and blind.
Character Event: Anne Sullivan had just graduated from the Perkins school
for the blind when she was asked to teach the young Helen Keller, who is deaf
and blind, how to behave in public and the lessons that will help her
throughout her life.
Young woman, precocious visionary
Naomi chastises her son and his wife about their children. She then yells at
them for calling her insane.
A couple too engaged in the materialistic life soon become aware of how silly
it is when they lose a diamond necklace borrowed from a friend.
An ex-nun, Catherine tries to scare away a suitor by telling him her views on
the world.
Mama is horrified as her daughter, Jessie, tells her that she intends to kill
herself at the end of the day.

Nighthawks

Lynn Rosen

Lilah

20s-30s

Oleanna

David Mamet

Carol

18-22

City folk all recount stories of their lives in an attempt to show how rewarding
and harsh it can all be.
Carol gives her teacher a taste of his medicine

Picasso at the Lapin

Agile
Picnic

Steve Martin

Suzanne

19

Suzanne describes her night with Picasso

William Inge

Millie Owens

13

Millie asks her older sister for advice on boys

A Piece of My Heart

Shirley Lauro

Martha

20s

Proof

David
Auburn
David
Auburn
David
Auburn
David
LindsayAbaire
Tom
Stoppard

Catherine

24

Catherine

24

Claire

28

Becca

30s-40s

Annie

30s

Act 2, Scene 5

Reasons to Be Pretty

Neil LaBute

Steph

30

Act 2, Page
120

Refuge

Jessica
Goldberg
Lynn Nottage

Amy

Late 20s

Salima

18

Act 3

Theresa
Rebeck

Clea

Scene 1

20s

Proof
Proof
Rabbit Hole

The Real Thing

Ruined
The Scene

Scene 2. 14

Scene 1

Play Event: The young nurses during the Vietnam war retell their stories and
their emotional connection they made during their struggle.
Character Event: After growing up in a military family Martha joins the
medical field as a nurse in the Vietnam war where she makes friends, faces
struggles, and lives through tragedies.
Catherine unleashes her frustration and grief from caring for her mentally
absent father, who has recently died.
Catherine thrusts her frustration on Hal
Claire accuses Hal of sending her sister deeper into depression after he slept
with her.
Becca lashes out after being accused by her husband of trying to erase the
memory of their dead son.
Anne is an actress talking to Henry, who is the writer of the play she is in. He
starts getting really cocky about his writing and starts bashing on this guy
named Brodie who has something interesting to write about, but just cant find
the right words to say it. Anne tries to defend Brodie and at the same time she
is trying to bring Henrys confidence level down just a notch.
Steph is talking to her Ex-boyfriend a year after they had a hard break up. She
tells him about her engagement and just wants to make peace with him. She
talks about the good times they had along with the bad times.
Amy, wrought with anxiety, considers agreeing to marry Sam.
Salima is telling her friend about the day when soldiers kidnapped her from her
home.
A young social climber leads an actor into an extra-marital affair, from which
he then creates a full-on downward spiral into alcoholism and bummery. His

Six Degrees of
Separation
The Shape of Things

John Guare

43

Neil Labute

Ouisa (Louisa
Kittredge)
Evelyn

The Shape of Things

Neil Labute

Evelyn

Mid 20s

Sister Mary Ignatius

Explains It All For
You
Spike Heels

Christopher
Durang

Sister Mary

50-60

Cut together
dialogue
Everything I
did made you
a more
desirable
person
Scene 2

Theresa
Rebeck
Dianna Son
Theresa
Rebeck
Bernard
Slade
John Murrell

Georgie

20s

94

Lesser-educated, flashy and emotional

-Elly

-30

Mult.
Scene 2

A young lesbian relives and tries to understand the attack of her lover.
Elly argues that special conditions dont give others the right to be cruel.

Sally

Early 20s

Catharine

Late 30s

Dan Zolidis

Abby

18

Woman Behind Bars

Tom Eyen

Jo-Jo

Wonderland

Brooke
Berman

Mia

Stop Kiss
Sunday on the Rocks
Tribute
Waiting for the
Parade
White Buffalo

Act I, scene 1.
11-15.

wife runs off with his best friend, his girlfriend leaves, and hes left with
nothing.
A couple retells the story of Geoffrey Miller and how he changed their lives by
showing how to be compassionate toward one another.
Evelyn uses her prowess and sexual hold on Adam to put him in his place after
his kissing another woman.
Evelyn is an eccentric arts graduate student who pursues a relation with Adam
as a part of her senior thesis project. Him being the project itself.

Mid-20s

Sister Mary expresses her disgust at a former student of hers who has grown
up and is gay.

Sally lectures her friends son on his uptight attitude

Scene 14. 61-2

Five women cope through the harsh realities of war as they learn to stick
together through it all.
Abby lets her dad know everything shes felt toward him growing up

Young 20s

Act I. 12-16

19

Pg.62

Several women in a jail cell influence the new inmate to show her that no one
is truly innocent.
Mia is an aspiring stage performer and is called to L.A. to have a show made
of her life. She struggles with balance of the show biz life and spirituality. In
this scene she has met a boy that is her fellow cast mate and he is extremely
into her but she is not interested in him because he is a superficial jerk. She
tries to let him down gently but ultimately gets real with him and tells him off.

CLASSICAL MONOLOGUES
As You Like It

William
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare

Rosalind

Early 20s

Phebe
Adriana

17-21
Late 20s

Shakespeare

Luciana

20s

Cymbeline

Shakespeare

Queen

40-50

A Dolls House
Lady Windermeres
Fan
Measure for
Measure

Ibsen
Oscar Wilde

Nora
Mrs. Erlynne

Late 20s
Late 30s

Shakespeare

Isabella

Late teens
early 20s
(?)

Measure for
Measure
The Merchant of
Venice
Miss Julie

Shakespeare

Isabella

20s

Act II Scene II

Shakespeare

Portia

18-21

Act 1, sc. 2

August
Strindberg

Julie

20s

Please try to
be calm
Kristen, and

As You Like It
The Comedy of
Errors
The Comedy of
Errors

Rosalind, disguised as a man, plays a trick on the man who loves her.
Act 3, Scene 5
Act 2, scene 2.
23-4

Phebe convinces a man who loves her that she has not fallen for someone else.
Two sets of twins attempt to find each other while getting each other in trouble
in order to find out who they are.
Innocent girl whose battling brother-in-law who loves her

Act I Scene 2

Cymbeline, King of Britain, takes a new wife who has an arrogant son called Cloten.
Cymbeline's beautiful daughter Imogen is expected to marry Cloten. Instead Imogen
marries the brave, but poor Posthumus Leonatus. Cymbeline is furious when he finds
out about the marriage and banishes Posthumus who goes to Rome. The couple have
time to exchange love tokens and Imogen gives Posthumus a diamond ring and he gives
her a bracelet. The villain of the plot is Iachimo who bets 10,000 ducats against
Posthumus's diamond ring that he can seduce Imogen. Various plot lines ensue
involving deceit, cross-dressing, poison and treachery. The story has a happy ending
when Iachimo confesses and Imogen reveals her true identity and is reunited with
Posthumus.

Act III, scene

1. 67-68
Act 2 Scene 4

She realizes that all her life shes been handed from man to man
Choosing between two men, Lady Windermere gives into temptation despite
Mrs. Erlynnes warning.
Isabella is a strong headed girl studying to become a nun. Her brother is put in
prison for impregnating his fianc, punishable by death as put into effect by the
substitute for the Duke, Angelo. When sent to plea with Angelo he takes a
liking to Isabella and offers her brothers freedom in exchange for sex. Of
course she is rightfully appalled.
Very virtuous and chaste young, spiritual
Portia seeks a shoulder as she complains about the unfairness of her fathers
request.
Miss Julie is the daughter of a wealthy count that has a secret affair with the
valet. She is slightly neurotic, especially in her flip flopping between being a
feminist pessimist and being optimistically submissive toward Jean (the valet).

Othello

listen
Act 4 Scene 3

William
Shakespeare
Shakespeare

Emilia

30

Desdemona

18-21

Pyscho Beach Party

Charles
Busch

Chicklet

Page 73

16-18

Taming of the Shrew

Shakespeare

Bianca

20s

Act 2, scene 1

Troilus and Cressida

Shakespeare

Cressida

20s

Act III Scene 2

The Trojan Women

Euripides

Andromache

Early 30s

32-37

Two Gentlemen of
Verona

Shakespeare

Julia

17-21

Act 2, Scene 7

Othello

Emilia tells Desdemona that men who deceive their wives have only
themselves to blame if their wives cheat on them.
Desdemona is married to Othello and it is quite the controversy because he is a
Moor. Iago tries to gain power by destroying their love and playing tricks on
both Othello and Desdemona. They both end up dead. In this scene
Desdemona is trying to let her father down easily by explaining that he needs
to respect their marriage just like her mothers father respected theirs
Chicklet is new in town and doesnt know how to fit in so she takes different
personalities and uses them to her benefit, but somewhere in the process she
cant control them
Katherine has just got finished tying up her younger sister Bianca because she
is jealous that all the guys want Bianca instead of her. Bianca tries to get
Katherine to free her, but at the same time she is basically rubbing it in her
sisters face that she can get any guy she wants.
During the Trojan War two young lovers fall for each other but are separated
by their parents, in a turnoff events Cressida marries someone else and the hero
of the town is now dead.
The women of Troy band together in a last act toward dignity to show that
their strength will carry them through it all.
Julia begs her servant woman for help, and talks about her lover, Proteus

Overdone Monologues
BAITZ/The End of the Day/1990/HELEN/I think you married me so as to become an American citizen
BALL/Five Women Wearing the Same Dress/1993/GEORGANNE/Tommy Valentine
BALL/Five Women Wearing the Same Dress/1993/ALL OTHERS

BOGOSIAN/Talk Radio/1985/DENISE/Paranoid caller, spoon in the garbage disposal, etc.

BOGOSIAN/Talk Radio/1985/LINDA/Sleeping with Barry Champlain
CRAVIATTO/Pizza Man/1991/ALL
CRISTOFER/Shadow Box/1975/Beverly/I Want you to come home
CRISTOFER/Lady and the Clarinet/1989/LUBA/Vomiting on desk of lovers secretary
DANIELS/Apartment 3A/1996/ANNIE/Sesame Street telethon speech
DORFMAN/Death and the Maiden/1991/PAULINA/When I heard his voice last night
DURANG/Beyond Therapy/1981/ALL
DURANG/'Dentitiy Crisis/1978/JANE/Peter Pan monologue
DURANG/Laughing Wild/1987/WOMAN/Tunafish monologue
DURANG/The Marriage of Bette & Boo/1973/ALL
DURANG/Sister Mary Ignatius/1979/Speech about mothers death
FEIFFER/Feiffers People/1968/ALL
FEIFFER/Hold Me!/1977/ALL
FEIFFER/Little Murders/1966/Patsy
FORNES/Fefu and her Friends/1977/ALL
GARDNER/A Thousand Clowns/1962/SANDRA/I didn't go to work this morning (blouse speech)
GERSHE/Butterflies are Free/1969/Jill Tanner/ALL
GESNER/LIPPA/Youre a Good Man Charlie Brown/ALL
GILMAN/Spinning into Butter/1999/SARAH/ALL

GUARE/Marco Polo Sings A Solo/1977/DIANE/I really started cookin when I was eight
GUARE/Landscape of the Body/1984/ROSALIS/Gorilla suit - porn audition speech
GUARE/House of Blue Leaves/1986/Bananas/Picks up the Pope, Bob Hope, Jackie Kennedy, etc. in the Green Latrine
GUARE/House of Blue Leaves/1986/BUNNY/I wont cook for you til you marry me
GUEST/Waiting for Guffman/1996/Libby Mae Browns audition (bonus features)
GUIRGIS/Jesus Hopped the A Train/2001/ALL
HAMPTON/ Dangerous Liaisons/1985/ALL
HANLEY/Slow Dance on the Killing Ground/1970/ROSIE/Losing virginity speech
HARLING/Steel Magnolias/1989/ALL
HARRINGTON/Night Luster/1983/ROMA/I dont think people see mevoice to die foretc
HEIMEL/A Girls Guide to Chaos/1988/ALL
HENLEY/Crimes of the Heart/1979/ALL
HOWE/The Art of Dining/1979/ELIZABETH BARROW COLT/Mealtime was the same as it had always been
HOWE/Painting Churches/1983/AL
IIZUKA/Aloha Say the Pretty Girls/1999/ALL
JOHNSON/Brilliant Traces/1988/ROSANNAH/I was standing in the back of the church
JOHNSON/Brilliant Traces/1988/ROSANNAH/Did you ever think you were visited by extraterrestrial
KANE/4:48 Psychosis/2000/ALL
KAYSEN/Girl, Interrupted/1999/ALL
KEILLOR/Snow White speech

KORDER/Search and Destroy/1992/MARIE/Movie pitch/penis claw monologue

KRAMER/Wall of Water/1998//Last cigarette speech
KUSHNER/A Bright Room Called Day/1987/ZILLAH/Dear Mr. President
KUSHNER/Angels in America: Perestroika/1992/HARPER/Night flight to San Francisco
LABUTE/Autobahn/2006/Stalking the guy
LINDSAY-ABAIRE/History Lesson/2002/Maggie/ALL
LINDSAY-ABAIRE/Wonder of the World/2001/Barbie Head Monologue
LONERGAN/Lobby Hero/2001/DAWN/ALL
LUCAS/Blue Window/1984/LIBBY/Falling off the balcony
LUCAS/Reckless/1988/ALL
MAMET/Oleanna/CAROL/1992/You did it to me. Here
MAMET/Oleanna/CAROL/1992/Other monologues
MARGULIES/Collected Stories/1996/Lisa/ALL
MARTIN/Talking With/1981/ALL
MARTIN/Vital Signs/1989/ALL
MARTIN/Picasso at the Lapin Agile/1998/SUZANNE/Sleeping with Picasso
MARTIN/Picasso at the Lapin Agile/1998/ALL OTHERS
MARTIN/Patter for the Floating Lady/1995/ANGIE/Sand in the tennis shoe
MASTRIOSIMONE/Woolgatherer/1979/ALL
MASTRIOSIMONE/Extremities/1980/ALL

MASTRIOSIMONE/Shivaree/1983/SHIVAREE/Well sport you can dance for dance

MAY/Not Enough Rope/1962/Edith/All
MCNALLY/Bad Habits/Dolly/1971/Complaining to the doctor about her husband
MURRAY-SMITH/Honor/1995/SOPHIE/I wish I waslike you
NASH/The Rainmaker/1954LIZZIE/ALL
NEWMAN/Quilters/NA/Sunbonnet Sue
NIGRO/Seascape with Sharks and Dancer/1985/TRACY/Problem with loving squashable animals
NORMAN/Getting Out/1977/ARLIE/Frog squishing speech
NORMAN/'Night Mother/1982/JESSIE/I am what became of your child
PATRICK/Kennedy's Children/1973/CARLA/I wanted to be a sex goddess
PIELMEIRER/Agnes of God/1979/ALL
RABE/Hurlyburly/1984/ALL
RABE/In the Boom Boom Room/1973/CHRISSY/and a piece of meat is all I am
RABE/In the Boom Boom Room/1973/ALL OTHERS
REBECK/Loose Knit/1994/MARGIEI want you to f*** me in that car of yours
REBECK/Spike Heels/1994/GEORGIE/Who made up these rules, do you actually think were buying it
REBECK/Spike Heels/1994/ALL OTHERS
SAYLES/Passion Fish (film)/1992/Anal probe speech
SHANGE/For Colored Girls./1975/ALL
SHANLEY/The Big Funk/1990/JILL/Im talking to you from my subconscious mind

SHANLEY/The Dreamer Examines His Pillow/1985/Donna/ALL

SHANLEY/Savage in Limbo/1984/SAVAGE/I feel strong
SHANLEY/Savage in Limbo/1984/ALL OTHERS
SHANLEY/Wheres my Money?/2002/ALL
SHANLEY/Women of Manhattan/1985/RHONDA/Why she keeps his tennis shoes
SHANLEY/Women of Manhattan/1985/ALL OTHERS
SHENGOLD/Lives of the Great Waitresses/1996/TAMMIE SUE/About the ugly guy who was great in bed
SHEPARD/Buried Child/1978/SHELLEY/ALL
SHEPARD/Cowboy Mouth/1971/CAVALE/You're so neat - ugly duckling speech
SHEPARD/Fool for Love/1983/MAE/ALL
SHEPARD/Icarus' Mother/1964/JILL/Peeing on the beach
SHINN/Other People/2000/PETRA/Fish stew speech
SILVER et al /AMy Name is Alice/1983/WOMAN/Yelling at the jock strap in the wash
SILVER et al/AMy Name is Still Alice/1984/WOMAN/Bridal registry
SILVER/Fat Men In Skirts/1991/POPO MARTIN/My name is Popo Martin
SILVER/The Food Chain/1994/Amanda/Waiter asked if I was alone
SIMON/Star Spangled Girl/1966/SOPHIE/Mr. Cornell, ah have tried to be neighborly, gooey chocolates
SIMON/Last of the Red Hot Lovers/1969/JEANETTE/Do you know Charlotte Korman
SIMON/Chapter Two/1977/Jennie/You know what you want better than me George
SIMON/Brighton Beach Memoirs/1983/NORA/Papas coat pocket

SIMON/Virtually any female character from Neil Simons major plays

SLADE/Romantic Comedy/1979/PHOEBE/Marshmallows out the nose
SNYDER/The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker/1964/BeeBee/ALL
SONDHEIM/Assassins/1990/SQUEAKY FROMME/Charlie Manson speech
SON/Stop Kiss/1998/CALLIE/Talking to unconscious girlfriend in hospital
TAYLOR & BOLOGNA/Lovers and Other Strangers/1968/ALL
TESICH/Passing Game/1977/JULIE/Richard, are you asleep?
TOPOR/Nuts/1980/CLAUDIA/I used to say I love you to the moon and down again
TOPOR/Nuts/1980/CLAUDIA/ALL OTHERS
VOGEL/How I Learned to Drive/1997/ALL
WADE/Key Exchange/1986/LISA/Father built sandbox for dying mother to watch kids
WAGNER/Search for Signs of Intelligent Life/1985/ALL
WASSERSTEIN/Heidi Chronicles/1988/ALL
WASSERSTEIN/Isnt It Romantic?/1981/ALL
WASSERSTEIN/Uncommon Women and Others/1975/ALL
WILDER/Our Town/1938/Emily
WELLER/Split/1977/MARGE/Stevie Wonder
WILLIAMS/Major female roles by Tennessee Williams are extremely well known; they are classics and not in the overdone category, but actors should know how well
known they are and have a reason for choosing them. And they should never be done without their intended accent.
WILSON/Burn This/1987/ANNA/Insects pinned to the wall
WILSON/The Gingham Dog/1968/GLORIA/I used to pray, I really did

WOLFE/The Colored Museum/1986/TOPSY/Yoho! Party! Party!

Overdone Shakespeare
Alls Well That Ends Well/HELENA/Then I confess, here on my knee
As You Like It/PHEBE/Think not I love him, though I ask for him
As You Like It/PHEBE/I would not be thy executioner
As You Like It /ROSALIND/And why, I pray you? Who might be your mother
Hamlet/OPHELIA/Alas my lord I have been so affrighted
Hamlet/OPHELIA/O what a noble mind is here oerthrown
Henry IV Pt 2/LADY PERCY/O yet, for God's sake, go not to these wars!
Julius Caesar/PORTIA/Nor for yours neither. You've ungently Brutus
Julius Caesar/PORTIA/Is Brutus sick? And is it physical
King John/CONSTANCE/I am not mad, this hair I tear is mine
Macbeth/LADY MACBETH/Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself?
The Merchant of Venice/PORTIA/I pray you, tarry: pause a day or two
The Merchant of Venice/PORTIA/You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand
The Merchant of Venice/PORTIA/The quality of mercy is not straind
A Midsummer Night's Dream/HELENA/How happy some oer other some
Othello/EMELIA/But I do think it is their husband's faults if their wives do fall

Richard III/ANNE/Set down, set down your honourable load

Romeo and Juliet/JULIIET/O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou
Romeo and Juliet/JULIIET/Gallop apace, you fiery footed steeds
Troilus and Cressida/CRESSIDA/Hard to seem won: but I was won, my lord
Twelfth Night/VIOLA/I left no ring with her: what means this lady?
Two Gentlemen of Verona/JULIA/O hateful hands, to tear such loving words!
The Winters Tale/HERMIONE/Sir, spare your threats
The Winters Tale/HERMIONE/Since what I am to say must be that
The Winters Tale/PAULINA/What studied torments, tyrant hast for me?