Monologue Competitions: How to compete confidently

Episode 206: Monologue Competitions: How to compete confidently How can you encourage your students to compete with confidence? Learn from the source! Student Kelsey Gilmore was chosen as critics choice for monologues and best in show in her district for her monologue performance. What did she do? How did she prepare? Show Notes All things monologue at theatrefolk.com Stressed Have You Heard Puzzle Pieces Myth-o-logues A Box of Puppies Episode Transcript Welcome to the Drama Teacher Podcast brought to you by Theatrefolk – the Drama Teacher Resource Company. I’m Lindsay Price. Hello! I hope you're well. Thanks for listening! This is Episode 206. You can find any links to this episode in the show notes which are at Theatrefolk.com/episode206. Today, we’re talking monologues and, more specifically, monologue competitions. Do you take your students to monologue competitions? Do you have your students perform monologues in the classroom? How is it going for you? Going okay? Want to do better? How can you encourage your students to compete with confidence? Well, I think the best way is to learn from the source. We’re going to talk today to a student who has had great success this year in competition. If you are looking for monologues for your students, if you just can’t listen to the same monologues over and over and over again, we can help. We can help! We can help! All you’ve got to do is look in the show notes which are at Theatrefolk.com/episode206. I’ve put a link in there to Theatrefolk’s monologue collections, monologue plays. We have a few! In our monologue books, all the monologues come from published plays, and it’s a one-stop shop to find those plays! Theatrefolk.com! Okay. I will see you on the other side! LINDSAY: Hello everyone! I am here with Kelsey Gilmore. Hello, Kelsey! KELSEY: Hello! LINDSAY: First off, tell everybody where in the world you are right now. KELSEY: I am in Tallahassee, Florida. LINDSAY: Awesome! You are a senior, right? KELSEY: Yes, ma’am! LINDSAY: Excellent. The reason you are talking is that you did something very exciting last weekend at your district thespian festival. Not only were you chosen for critic’s choice for monologues, but you also won best in show. KELSEY: I did! LINDSAY: Congratulations! KELSEY: Thank you so much! LINDSAY: We’re just going to kind of talk to you about what you did to prepare for districts and what it’s like to compete and maybe some advice for some folks who are listening – our listeners, our teachers, and drama students. I know a lot of them have students who go into competition and are frustrated sometimes with competition. Let’s start off with some background. Have you competed at districts every year? KELSEY: I competed my sophomore and junior year. I didn’t do it in freshman year, though.