Find Me: A New 5-10 Minute Thriller Monologue
If you’re looking for a dramatic one-woman show this Halloween, check out my new thriller monologue, FIND ME. It runs 5-10 minutes, depending on performance and staging, and is great for a female actor in her late teens, 20s, 30s.
FIND ME takes place in 1851, at the private burial site of a family estate. A young woman, Elizabeth, is found outside, in the graveyard, shovel in hand, in the dead of night. The setting alone is enough to start amping up those creepy vibes! She is heart-broken, grieving, and now embarking on a chilling quest to bring her deceased husband closer to her… The monologue is spooky and will fit your horror-theater needs, but ultimately, it’s a piece about love, loss, longing and what you might do to have even a chance to be with your true love in any form.
I recently wrote this monologue for a local Halloween event where at night, guests will be guided down a spooky path leading to a ravine, and will see 4 short monologues come to life in front of them along the way. FIND ME is one of those monologues, and is inspired by a piece of history from the area. In 1851, a new cemetery was opened in the town, and people began digging up bodies in church and estate graveyards to move them to the large new cemetery. As you can imagine, digging up and moving bodies was not a pretty sight…
Typically, I wouldn’t share a piece while it’s under its first production, but since the Halloween spooky season is upon us, I wanted to be sure you had the opportunity to consider it for your own performance or production before October 31. It’s a great addition to an indoor Halloween theater event, a creepy monologue competition or performance, or it’s perfect for outdoor theater and gives ample room to be creative with the outdoor playing area. As always contact me here first, if interested in producing or performing. And if you’re in the tri-state area of NYC, check out the event here. Huge thanks to WCT for the opportunity, theater producers Lori Myers and Alan Lutwin, and director Flori Doyle (I don’t know the 2 actors doubling this role yet, but gratitude to them, of course too!).
You can check out an excerpt of the monologue here or get the whole one-woman play below.