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| Introduction | |
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| Be Specific: The Actor's Approach to the Monologue - An Interview with Bartlett Sher | |
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| "We were a Well-Established Family Once" | |
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| Dodge, Buried Child | |
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| Vince, Buried Child | |
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| Walker, Three Days of Rain | |
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| "It was Love. Always Love" | |
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| Anthony, A Question of Mercy | |
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| Chilli, In the Blood | |
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| Craver, In the Heart of America | |
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| Gallimard, M. Butterfly | |
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| Porter, August Snow | |
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| Pip, Three Days of Rain | |
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| "Trying to Talk, Saying Good-Bye" | |
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| Thomas, A Question of Mercy | |
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| Lord Alfred Douglas, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde | |
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| Oscar Wilde, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde | |
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| Walter, Unfinished Stories | |
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| "Once you Know you're Dead, why Keep on Dyin ..." | |
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| Junie, The Colored Museum | |
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| Lou, The Speed of Darkness | |
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| Joe, The Speed of Darkness | |
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| Joe, The Speed of Darkness | |
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| "Some Sense of History" | |
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| Todd, Pterodactyls | |
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| The Foundling Father as Abraham Lincoln, The America Play | |
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| The Foundling Father as Abraham Lincoln, The America Play | |
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| T.J., Insurrection: Holding History | |
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| Brodus, Miss Evers' Boys | |
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| Vershinin, Three Sisters | |
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| "Here I am, Talking to you about my Revolutionary Life" | |
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| Pio, The Day You'll Love Me | |
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| Ernesto, Principia Scriptoriae | |
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| The Little Dutch Boy at Age 50, The Baltimore Waltz | |
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| Jonesy, Side Man | |
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| Swahili, I Am a Man | |
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| Augustus, The Darker Face of the Earth | |
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| "People Fall for Me, What they Think is Me" | |
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| Neal, August Snow | |
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| Baron, The Chemistry of Change | |
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| Patrick, Zero Positive | |
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| Roy, Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches | |
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| "People I Know are Dying" | |
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| Jody, Lonely Planet | |
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| Carl, Lonely Planet | |
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| Carl, The Baltimore Waltz | |
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| Captain John Graunt, The Living | |
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| Captain John Graunt, The Living | |
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| "The Point is Husband and Wife, Man and Woman, Adam and Rib" | |
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| Father Donnally, The Marriage of Bette and Boo | |
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| Chilli, In the Blood | |
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| Pip, Three Days of Rain | |
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| Nick, Sight Unseen | |
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| Takamura, Ballad of Yachiyo | |
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| "You Want to be Nice, or you Want to be Effective?" | |
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| Roy, Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches | |
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| Hoyle, Three Hotels | |
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| Barry, Talk Radio | |
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| Judge, Santos & Santos | |
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| "I am a Man of the People ..." | |
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| The Doctor, In the Blood | |
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| Reverend D., In the Blood | |
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| Lou, The Speed of Darkness | |
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| "The Most Precious Asset in Life ... is the Ability to be a Good Son" | |
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| Roy, Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches | |
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| Jonathan, Sight Unseen | |
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| Bob, Lloyd's Prayer | |
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| "A Father's Love is a Fairly Spectacular Thing" | |
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| Samuel, An Almost Holy Picture | |
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| Samuel, An Almost Holy Picture | |
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| Hector, Roosters | |
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| Lloyd, Lloyd's Prayer | |
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| Will, The Young Man from Atlanta | |
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| "You Ever Killed Anybody? Ever Want to?" | |
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| Prisoner, The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers | |
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| Boxler, In the Heart of America | |
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| Golf Club, Marisol | |
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| Ron, Search and Destroy | |
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| Gallo, Roosters | |
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| "What is it that Makes a Man Feel Sorry?" | |
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| Martinus, Playland | |
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| Gideon, Playland | |
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| Bob, the Pizza Boy, Bobrauschenbergamerica | |
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| Lunga, Middle Finger | |
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| Further Reading | |