Free scenes and monologues for actors
Scenes, monologues and cold reads to rehearse out loud. Pick a part and a reader plays the rest, free, right in your browser.
Scenes for two
- Eleven MinutesThriller · 1 min · Detective Alvarez, KaiAn interview room and an alibi with eleven minutes missing.
- Exit InterviewDrama · 1 min · Jo, TheoShe has to let go the man who trained her.
- Last CallRomance · 1 min · Sam, EllieA bartender and a regular, the last night before the bar closes for good.
- Overnight ShiftThriller · 1 min · Dispatcher, CallerA 911 dispatcher and a caller who can’t speak freely.
- Parent TeacherDramedy · 1 min · Ms. Reyes, Mr. DunnA teacher, a father, and a story the kid wrote.
- Second Date RulesRomance · 1 min · Maya, TheoA second date, and she’s brought a list.
- StalledRomance · 1 min · June, AriTwo strangers on a stopped subway car at 1 a.m.
- The AuditionDramedy · 1 min · Actor, Casting DirectorAn actor in the room, and a casting director who’s seen it all.
- The Return DeskComedy · 1 min · Clerk, DonnaA customer returns a wedding dress, worn.
- The ToastDramedy · 1 min · Ray, LenaThe night before the wedding, rehearsing the father’s toast.
- Unit 4BComedy · 1 min · Priya, MarcusA neighbor knocks about the wifi.
- Visiting HoursDrama · 1 min · Nora, DannyTwo siblings outside their father’s hospital room, late at night.
- A Settling of AccountsDrama · 6 min · Nora, HelmerFrom A Doll’s House. Nora sits her husband down for the first serious talk of their marriage.
- Oxen MeadowsComedy · 7 min · Natalya Stepanovna, LomovFrom Chekhov’s The Proposal. Lomov came to propose and ends up fighting over a field.
- The BearComedy · 8 min · Popova, SmirnovFrom Chekhov’s The Bear. A widow in mourning and the man who won’t leave until she pays him.
- The InterviewComedy · 7 min · Lady Bracknell, JackFrom The Importance of Being Earnest. Lady Bracknell decides whether Jack may marry her daughter.
- The Wonderful ThingDrama · 4 min · Nora, HelmerFrom A Doll’s House. Nora tells Helmer the moment she stopped loving him.
Scenes for three
- LabeledComedy · 1 min · Jess, Omar, LeoSomeone ate the food with the name on it.
- The Reading of the WillDrama · 1 min · Claire, Paul, LawyerTwo estranged siblings and their mother’s lawyer.
- Tea in the GardenComedy · 6 min · Cecily, Gwendolen, MerrimanFrom The Importance of Being Earnest. Two new friends find out they are engaged to the same man.
Monologues
- Best ManComedy · 1 min · DevThe best man realizes, mid-toast, that his story is a terrible idea.
- The GardenDrama · 1 min · WaltA man in his late wife’s garden, the first spring without her.
- The SpeechDramedy · 1 min · RileyRunning for student council president, and the speech goes off script.
- The VoicemailDrama · 1 min · CassieA voicemail to a best friend she hasn’t spoken to in a year.
- HelenaRomance · 1 min · HelenaFrom A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Helena loves Demetrius, who loves her best friend.