About the Book:

Looking for a contemporary Samuel French play to produce, read, study? Volume 1 of the Exceptional Monologues series features a wide range of monologues selected by Roxane Heinze-Bradshaw and Katherine Disavino from some of the latest Samuel French plays. Complete with play and scene synopses to help contextualize the monologues, a thematic index, and broad range of styles, you are sure to find one that suits your audition needs – and it's a wonderful way to sample Samuel French publications. Find the scene just right for you and then purchase the full text of the play and get to work. There is no substitute for, and great pleasure to be had from, reading the full play.

Exceptional Monologues 1 for Men and Women includes such titles and authors as: Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, The Receptionist by Adam Bock, In the Continuum by Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter, Bach at Leipzig by Itamar Moses, and many more.

Roxane Heinze-Bradshaw is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater at Northwestern University. She has served as a dramaturg for many productions in New York and Chicago, and her reviews and writing have appeared in Theatre Journal, The Village Voice, and Backstage. She has taught at Brooklyn College and the Borough of Manhattan Community College, as well as worked with high school students as a teaching artist in Brooklyn.

Katherine DiSavino is an American playwright. She graduated with a degree in English and Creative Writing from The George Washington University, where she wrote her first play Nana's Naughty Knickers, which has been widely produced across the United States, Canada and abroad. She grew up in the theatre – her parents own a professional Dinner Theatre outside of Philadelphia where she spent most of her formative years learning colourful words from actors and hiding underneath sets.