Research Guides: Theatre Arts: Find Scripts

Find a Monologue

Use the following to identify a monologue, then check the Library Catalog to see if it's available through Sprague.:

The Monologuer
Resource to find dramatic & comedic monologues to assist you in preparing for auditions. From .Backstage
The Playfinder
More focused on full plays, but still helpful. From Dramatists Play Service

Online Scripts

Australian Plays Transform - Find a Play
International gateway to Australian First Nations playwriting.
Free Reads from Playscript
Twenty plays from the Playscript catalog - Completely free to read. You will need to create an account.
Free Play scripts (DramaTeacher)
An annotated list of websites offering a wide variety of free online play scripts for drama and theatre teachers and their students.
Simply Scripts
Read scripts online. Pls note: plays are under copyright & require author's permission for copying or performing.

Find Scripts

Search the Sprague Library catalog by author or title for particular play scripts.

Browse for scripts by (1) searching the genre heading 'plays'. Type ge:plays into the catalog search box; or (2) searching for the subject heading of 'scripts (documents)' (su:scripts (documents).

You can also find scripts within anthologies as well as scenes and monologues.

Best plays of... and the year book of the drama in America.
Call Number: PN6112 .B4521
Covers 1899 to 1947
Best plays theater yearbook
Call Number: PN6112 .B4522
Issued annually, starting 2003-2004
2 Minutes and Under by Glenn Alterman
Call Number: PN2080 .A44 1993
ISBN: 9781880399491
Publication Date: 1993
Original character monologs for men and women covering a variety of types, ages, and moods and ranging from serious to comic.
Play the scene : the ultimate collection of contemporary and classic scenes and monologues
Call Number: PN2080 .P59 2004
Publication Date: 2004
A collection of over a hundred scenes and monologues from plays from the Elizabethan period to contemporary Tony Award winners.
Plays for Two by Eric Lane (Editor); Nina Shengold (Editor)
Call Number: PN2080 .P6 2014
ISBN: 9780345804549
Publication Date: 2014
The Playwrights' Center Monologues for Women by Kristen Gandrow; Polly K. Carl (Editor)
Call Number: PN2080 .P6215 2005
ISBN: 0325007411
Publication Date: 2005
Broad range of monologues by Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis writers to perform and enjoy.
Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison
Call Number: PS3608.A78348 M37 2016
ISBN: 1559365242
Publication Date: 2017
Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Now a major motion picture starring Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Lois Smith, and Tim Robbins.
Yen by Anna Jordan
Call Number: PR6110 .O72 2016
ISBN: 1848425511
Publication Date: 2016
Anna Jordan's Bruntwood Prize-winning play, Yen explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of being forced to grow up on your own.