Awareness Tour sponsored* by Mike Kimmel
The Children’s Book Review
Join us on this virtual book tour for One-Minute Monologues for Teens: 100 Original Monologues!
One-Minute Monologues for Teens is the latest addition to The Young Actor Series, written by film, television, stage, commercial actor, and acting coach Mike Kimmel. The 100 original monologues included are family-friendly and have positive messages and life lessons for young people. Ultimately, these monologues can help parents and teachers encourage positive attitudes and behaviors in our teen performers – and their classmates and audiences too. Appropriate for film, television, and theater training and performance – as well as college drama program auditions.
One-Minute Monologues For Teens: 100 Original Monologues
Written by Mike Kimmel
Publisher’s Synopsis: One-Minute Monologues for Teens is a collection of 100 original comedy and drama scripts on a wide range of topics. They are easily relatable to teenage actors’ real-life roles as daughters, sons, students, student-athletes, and after-school employees. Each monologue is gender-neutral and may be performed by both male and female actors in a one-minute timeframe. No props or costumes are required. The monologues are clean, family-friendly, and include positive messages, life lessons, and ethical questions for young people written between the lines. Ultimately, these monologues can help parents and teachers encourage positive attitudes and behaviors in our teen performers – and their classmates and audiences too. Appropriate for film, television, and theater training and performance – as well as college drama program auditions.
Ages 13+ | Publisher: Ben Rose Creative Arts | ISBN-13: 978-0998151380
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About the Author
Mike Kimmel is a film, television, stage, and commercial actor and acting coach. He is a twenty-plus year member of SAG-AFTRA with extensive experience in both the New York and Los Angeles markets. He has worked with directors Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Townsend, Craig Shapiro, and Christopher Cain among many others. TV credits include Game of Silence, Zoo, Treme, In Plain Sight, Cold Case, Breakout Kings, Memphis Beat, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He was a regular sketch comedy player on The Tonight Show, performing live on stage and in pre-taped segments with Jay Leno for eleven years. Mike has appeared in dozens of theatrical plays on both coasts, including Radio City Music Hall, Equity Library Theater, Stella Adler Theater, and Theater at the Improv. He trained with Michael Shurtleff, William Hickey, Ralph Marrero, Gloria Maddox, Harold Sylvester, Wendy Davis, Amy Hunter, Bob Collier, and Stuart Robinson. He has a B.A. from Brandeis University and an M.A. from California State University.
As an educator, Kimmel has taught at Upper Iowa University, the University of New Orleans, University of Phoenix, and in the Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Burbank, California public school districts. He is a two-time past president of New Orleans Toastmasters, the public speaking organization, and often serves as a speech contest judge. Mike has written and collaborated on numerous scripts for stage and screen. His full-length historical drama on Presidents Lincoln and Garfield was a 2013 semi-finalist in the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. He is the 2014 recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from Upper Iowa University. Mike is a full voting member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (the Emmys).
www.mikekimmelauthor.com | www.mikekimmel.com | www.imdb.me/mikekimmel
16 Comments
It’s hard to find appropriate reading material for this age group – especially in the humorous vein.
My grandson would enjoy this and benefit greatly from this fabulous resource and giveaway.
I’d like it for my two teens.
Have have a grand daughter that is quite a ham.
Would love to add this to our library!
I would save this for my niece for when she’s older
This would be the perfect prize for my nephew, an aspiring actor!
my teen is super interested in acting and i would love to support his dreams!
I’m sure my granddaughter would love the book!
My daughter is really interested in acting, thanks.
I would like to win this giveaway for my neighbor.
Im hoping this would help my teenage grandson come out of his shell,he is very shy
My son loves acting so I think these would be great for him.
This book will be real handy.! Two,s , Tweens and teenager stages can be challenging to say the least.
My grandson would love this book! He loves to speak and act! Thanks for the chance to win!
This is right up either of my twin teens’ alleys per se. They thoroughly enjoy creating and delving into all aspects of this art form. They wanted to go into drama during high school, but we are still in distance learning in our area due to COVID.