About the Book:

Audition monologues from contemporary works by American playwrights.

Contemporary American Monologues for Women presents the best audition pieces for actors from over 100 contemporary American plays selected by noted theatre writer Todd London, former Managing Editor of American Theatre magazine.

Contemporary American Monologues for Women provides a remarkable array of styles and characters for use in auditions or scene study classes by female actors. Selected from the works of contemporary American playwrights, including Jon Robin Baitz, Eric Bogosian, Jo Carson, Richard Foreman, Philip Kan Gotanda, Spalding Gray, Jessica Hagedorn, Tina Howe, David Henry Hwang, Adrienne Kennedy, Harry Kondoleon, Tony Kushner, Romulus Linney, Craig Lucas, Eduardo Machado, Emily Mann, Donald Margulies, Marsha Norman, Suzan-Lori Parks, Reynolds Price, José Rivera, Nicky Silver, Paula Vogel, George C. Wolfe and others.

About the Editor:

Todd London is the long-time artistic director of New Dramatists, where he has worked closely with more than a hundred of America’s leading playwrights and advocated nationally and internationally for hundreds more.