How to Choose a Good Monologue - advice from an agent

Well, the first thing, which is a basic concept, but nonetheless worth mentioning - choose something that is within your sex and age range. Casting directors are looking for people who match the roles they are reading as are agents.

And then comes the content. Don't do Shakespeare right out of the gate, choose something that you feel comfortable with in manner of speech and concept.

There are so many plays to choose from a good starting point is to find a play that is age appropriate, or perhaps you've seen a movie that had a great monologue that you really liked, that is a great way to go as well.

A monologue for an agent/manager should be no longer than 3 minutes and no shorter than 1 minute.

The more range it has, the better, if you can really make it go from the bottom scale emotions like grief or apathy up to the top of the scale, like cheerfulness or enthusiasm, that is great, but don't do it to do it, do it and feel really confident and sure about it. If you need to cut back to be really confident, that's okay, one of the worst things an actor can do with a monologue is to do it only half way!