Featured in this volume are a wide range of voices and characters with a more international focus.

This unique collection of monologues for women contains fifty pieces by women playwrights from all over the country.

As a director and instructor, and adminstrator of the Jane Chambers Memorial Playwriting Award, Haring-Smith draws on her experience in the theatre, arguing that actors constantly use the same sources for monologues. This second volume presents material from significant female playwrights.

Editors Tori Haring-Smith and Liz Engelman present fifty-nine previously unpublished monologues written by some of the most inspiring and exciting women now emerging onto the international stage

Audition monologues from recent works by American playwrights.

Audition monologues selected from plays first published in American theatre magazine since 1985.

Containing more than fifty monologues taken from prize-winning plays written since 1980, Award Monologues for Women provides the best range of up-to-date audition pieces for women.