When an acting teacher, casting director, or talent agent asks you to prepare a monologue, what ideas for material spring to mind? Perhaps you immediately think of your favorite classical ...

Anyone who’s seen Gloria (America Ferrera) confront gendered expectations and the challenges of womanhood in “Barbie” knows that longer monologues can be both poignant and powerful. One- to two-minute ...

“My need to work on monologues originates from my love of literature. I usually pick novels that have little or no dialogue, so that I perceive the book as a very long monologue. Since I make films ...

Flashback to college: I’m sitting in the dining hall with my best friend Dave, and a student enters in a firefighter outfit. Assuming (and probably correctly) that this man is part of the ...