(Applause Acting Series). Lawrence Harbison has selected 100 terrific monologues for men from contemporary plays, all by characters between the ages of 18 and 35 perfect for auditions or class. There are comic monologues (laughs) and dramatic monologues (no laughs). Most have a compelling present-tense action for actors to perform. A few are story monologues and they're great stories. Actors will find pieces by star playwrights such as Don Nigro, Itamar Moses, Stephen Adly Guirgis, and Terence McNally; by exciting up-and-comers such as Nicole Pandolfo, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, Crystal Skillman, Greg Kalleres, Reina Hardy, and J. Thalia Cunningham; and information on getting the complete text of each play. This is a must-have resource in the arsenal of every aspiring actor hoping to knock 'em dead with his contemporary piece after bowling over teachers and casting directors alike with a classical excerpt.

The latest edition of America's best-selling monologue series for men. All monologues are excerpted from plays produced during the 1998 theatrical season.

The latest edition of America's best-selling monologue series for women and men. All monologues are excerpted from plays produced during the 2001 theatrical season. Almost all from readily available published plays. A collection of great men's monologues from 2001.

Another volume of this best-selling scene book. All scenes are excerpted from the plays from the 1995 theatrical season. Includes selections from: The Ends of The Earth, Molly Sweeny, Lesbian's Last Pizza, Losers of the Big Picture, Slaughter City, Yankee Kugel, and Fragments. Playwright/Editor Jocelyn A. Beard, a veteran of NYU's film school and the Yale School of Drama, has edited almost forty monologue books for Smith and Kraus. Her Screenplay, Igor and the Lunatics, was made into a feature film and subsequently listed in Heavy Metal magazine as "One of the 10 Sleaziest Movies Ever Made!" Notwithstanding, Jocelyn lives in an old haunted house in the Hudson River Valley with her husband, Kevin Kitowski, their beautiful daughter, Blythe, and lots of dogs.