Summer 2024
When the 2020 pandemic shuttered theaters everywhere, artists flocked to Zoom. We noticed that plays performed on Zoom felt flat.
We wondered why.
Then it hit us. Because it is impossible to make eye contact via Zoom, any scene written for 2 or more people would always feel somehow false.
It dawned on us that one form of theater might translate just fine to the Zoom box. Monologue.
And so the Hear Me Out New American Monologue Competition was founded to encourage idle playwrights and screenwriters to explore one form that could provide them ongoing connection with their audience.
Roland Tec explains what’s in store when Hear Me Out Monologues returns in mid-2024.
Hear Me Out Returns!
Hear Me Out Monologues seeks to encourage new groundbreaking in the craft of monologue in order to better equip a generation of script writers with the power to make unforgettable drama (and comedy) happen anywhere a small group can gather to listen.
Members of the Hear Me Out Monologues community (writers, actors, audiences) speak out about what this has meant to them at this time.
