Featured in this volume are a wide range of voices and characters with a more international focus.

This unique collection of monologues for women contains fifty pieces by women playwrights from all over the country.

Audition monologues for female characters selected from recent works by American playwrights including Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz, Constance Congdon, Paula Vogel, Donald Margulies, Emily Mann, Eric Bogosian, Nicky Silver, and others. Unique to the TCG monologue series is a bibliography of other works by the playwrights included.

Audition monologues selected from plays first published in American theatre magazine since 1985.

As a director and instructor, and adminstrator of the Jane Chambers Memorial Playwriting Award, Haring-Smith draws on her experience in the theatre, arguing that actors constantly use the same sources for monologues. This second volume presents material from significant female playwrights.

Editors Tori Haring-Smith and Liz Engelman present fifty-nine previously unpublished monologues written by some of the most inspiring and exciting women now emerging onto the international stage

This is Carolyn Gage's second volume of monologues and scenes for lesbian actors. Some of her characters are historical, and not always lesbian: actresses Nance O'Neil and Henrietta Vinton Davis, Alcoholics Anonymous pioneer Marty Mann, lighting designer Jean Rosenthal... and Lizzie Borden's maid! A fascinating companion to her first volume.