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    2 Minutes & Under Volume 1: 70 Short Character Monologues for Actors
    2 Minutes & Under Volume 2: 59 Short Character Monologues for Actors
    2 Minutes & Under Volume 3: Over 60 Powerful Original Audition Pieces
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    Monologue Audition Series

    By Glenn Alterman

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    About this series

    The monologues in this volume are original character monologues for men and women by Glenn Alterman.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSmith and Kraus Inc
    Release dateJan 1, 1974
    2 Minutes & Under Volume 1: 70 Short Character Monologues for Actors
    2 Minutes & Under Volume 2: 59 Short Character Monologues for Actors
    2 Minutes & Under Volume 3: Over 60 Powerful Original Audition Pieces

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      2 Minutes & Under Volume 3: Over 60 Powerful Original Audition Pieces
      2 Minutes & Under Volume 3: Over 60 Powerful Original Audition Pieces

      2 Minutes & Under Volume 3: Over 60 Powerful Original Audition Pieces

      Glenn Alterman
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      A sampling of female characters from Volume 3: LUCY A mugging victim who comes to her own rescue GWEN A woman apologizing to a man she has offended ELIZABETH A patient tells of her nightmare. LAURA A juror agonizing over a verdict HOPE A woman who recently got out of a toxic relationship

      A sampling of female characters from Volume 3: LUCY A mugging victim who comes to her own rescue GWEN A woman apologizing to a man she has offended ELIZABETH A patient tells of her nightmare. LAURA A juror agonizing over a verdict HOPE A woman who recently got out of a toxic relationship

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      2 Minutes & Under Volume 1: 70 Short Character Monologues for Actors
      2 Minutes & Under Volume 1: 70 Short Character Monologues for Actors

      2 Minutes & Under Volume 1: 70 Short Character Monologues for Actors

      Glenn Alterman
      4/5
      4/5

      The monologues in this volume come from the following plays by Glenn Alterman: The Pain in the Poetry, Once in a Blue Moon, Goin' Round on Solid Rock Ground, The Dangers of Strangers, Nobody's Flood.

      The monologues in this volume come from the following plays by Glenn Alterman: The Pain in the Poetry, Once in a Blue Moon, Goin' Round on Solid Rock Ground, The Dangers of Strangers, Nobody's Flood.

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      2 Minutes & Under Volume 2: 59 Short Character Monologues for Actors
      2 Minutes & Under Volume 2: 59 Short Character Monologues for Actors

      2 Minutes & Under Volume 2: 59 Short Character Monologues for Actors

      Glenn Alterman
      3/5 - 1 rating
      3/5 - 1 rating

      The monologues in this volume are original character monologues for men and women by Glenn Alterman.

      The monologues in this volume are original character monologues for men and women by Glenn Alterman.

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    Glenn Alterman

    Glenn Alterman is a multi-award winning playwright, the author of 26 theater related books (including 10 books of original monologues), listed in both the Guiness Book of World Records and RecordSetter.com (Author of "Most Published Original Monologues")a screen writer, actor, and a highly respected monologue/audition acting coach ("Best Monologue Audition Coach"- Backstage and Theater Resource Magazine- Glennalterman.com). He was born in Brooklyn, New York. His books include: Street Talk, Original Monologues For Actors, An Actors Guide- Making It In New York (and the recently released, completely revised "Second Edition"). The Perfect Audition Monologue, Glenn Alterman's Secrets To Successful Cold Readings, Sixty Seconds To Shine--101 One Minute monologues, Creating Your Own Monologue (and the 2nd edition), Promoting Your Acting Career, Two Minutes and Under (Original Monologues for Actors, Volumes 1, 2, and 3), Street Talk (Original Character Monologues for Actors), Uptown (More Original Monologues For Actors), The Job Book: One Hundred Acting Jobs for Actors, The Job Book 2: One Hundred Day Jobs for Actors, What to Give Your Agent for Christmas, and Two Minute Monologues. Two Minutes and Under, Street Talk, and Uptown were the number one best-selling books of original monologues in 1998, 1999, and 2005 and, along with Creating Your Own Monologue, Promoting Your Acting Career, The Job Book, The Job Book 2, and Two Minutes and Under, were all "Featured Selections" in the Doubleday Book Club (Fireside Theater and Stage and Screen Division"). Most of his published works have gone on to multiple printings. As a playwright, Mr. Alterman is the recipient of the first Julio T. Nunez Artist's Grant, The Arts and Letters Award in Drama, and several international arts grants. He's won over 50 national and international playwriting awards. His play The Pain in the Poetry was published in 2009 The Best Ten Minute Plays For 2 or More Actors. "After" was selected to be in "2011- The Best 10-Minute Plays", and "Second Tiers", in "2012- The Best 10-Minute Plays". 13 of his plays have appeared in "Best Play" anthologies. Mr. Alterman's plays, Like Family and The Pecking Order, were optioned by Red Eye Films (with Alterman writing the screenplay). His play, Solace, was produced off-Broadway by the Circle East Theater Company (formerly Circle Rep Theater Company). Nobody's Flood won the Bloomington National Playwriting Competition, as well as being a finalist in the Key West Playwriting Competition. Coulda-Woulda-Shoulda won the Three Genres Playwriting Competition twice, two years in a row! The prize included publication of the play in the Prentice Hall textbook, used in college theater departments all over the country. To date, it has appeared in 3 separate edition of that text book. Mr. Alterman wrote the book for Heartstrings: The National Tour (commissioned by DIFFA, the Design Industries Foundation for Aids), a thirty-five city tour that starred Michelle Pfeiffer, Ron Silver, Susan Sarandon, Marlo Thomas, and Sandy Duncan. Other plays include Kiss Me When It's Over (commissioned by E. Weissman Productions), starring and directed by André De Shields; Tourists of the Mindfield (finalist in the L. Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Competition at New Dramatists); and Street Talk/Uptown (based on his monologue books), produced at the West Coast Ensemble. Goin' Round on Rock Solid Ground and Unfamiliar Faces were finalists at the Actors Theater of Louisville's playwriting competition. Spilt Milk received its premiere at the Beverly Hills Rep/Theater 40 in Los Angeles and was selected to participate in the Samuel French One-Act Festival. The Danger of Strangers won Honorable Mention in the Deep South Writers Conference Competition, was a finalist in the George R. Kernodle Contest, was selected to be in the Pittsburgh New Works Festival and has had over 35 productions, including at Circle Rep Lab, the West Bank Downstairs Theater Bar (starring James Gandolfini), the Emerging Artists Theater Company's one-act marathon, the Vital Theater Company in New York, and, most recently, with the Workshop Theater Company. There have been many productions of his original monologues play, "God In Bed", both in the United States and in Europe. Mr. Alterman's work has been performed at Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theater (EST), Circle in the Square Downtown, HERE, LaMaMa, The Workshop Theater Company, in the Turnip Festival, at the Duplex, Playwrights Horizons, at several theaters on Theater Row in New York, as well as at many theaters around the country. Mr. Alterman has been a guest artist and given master classes and seminars on "Monologues" and "The Business of Acting" at such diverse places as the Governor's School for the Arts in Norfolk, Virginia, the Edward Albee Theater Conference (Valdez, Alaska), Southampton College, Western Connecticut State College, Broadway Artists Alliance, The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), the Dramatists Guild, the Learning Annex, the Screen Actors Guild, the Seminar Center, in the Boston Public School System, and at many acting schools and colleges all over the country. He is a member of the Actors Studio Playwrights Unit and The Dramatists Guild. In 1993, Mr. Alterman created the Glenn Alterman Studios, where actors receive monologue/audition coaching, as well as career preparation. He was named "Best Monologue/Audition Coach in the Tri-State Area" by Theater Resources Magazine and as "The Best Private Acting Coach In New York", by the readers of Back Stage. He presently lives in New York City, where he's working on several plays, works on TV commercials, and coaches actors. He recently completed his latest book,tentatively titled, "Writing The Ten Minute Play (A book For Playwrights and Actors Wanting To Write Plays)", for Applause Books, and is about to start work on his 10th original monologue book (and 25th book) On the Web, he can be reached at www.glennalterman.com.

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