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New Kid Next Door is in The Best 10-Minute Plays 2024 from Smith & Kraus!
Smith & Kraus - Best 10-Minute Plays 2024


A second edition of Mrs Dilber's Christmas Carol is now available from Next Stage Press!

My newest play from Youthplays, Tricked!



The official site for award winning
screenwriter and playwright
ARTHUR M. JOLLY.

Arthur M. Jolly


Discover the works of Arthur M. Jolly (he, him), download free monologues for auditions and classes, purchase playscripts, ask questions, and get all the info on upcoming productions. Over ONE AND A HALF MILLION visitors so far... welcome!

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NEWS

Updated May 2026.


Upcoming Productions!

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UIL Competition 2026 (Feb-Apr) A Gulag Mouse Hardin-Jefferson HS, Sour Lake, TX
May 3rd 2026 Straw, Sticks, Bricks Parlin Middle School, Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild, MA
June 12th-21st, 2026 Long Joan Silver Nowra Players, Culburra Beach, NSW, Australia
July 9-19th, 2026 Sales of a Dead Man Gulfport Community Players, Gulfport, FL
November 6-15th, 2026 The Christmas Princess Empire House Players, Wichita, KS
Upcoming! Scheduled but not yet announced by the theatres Straw, Sticks, Bricks; Archibald the Monster; How Not to Do your Homework.




Congrats and break a leg,

Hardin-Jefferson High School!

Huge congratulations to the cast and crew of A Gulag Mouse for an amazing performance at the District level in the Texas UIL competition, and congratulations on your many deserved awards along the way!

District 19 UIL bidistric awards ceremony

District 19 UIL competition poster





Congratulations Bowmanville High School!

Congratulations to the cast and crew of There is No Play for winning Outstanding Production, receiving an Award of Excellence, and to Kayla M for winning an Award of Merit as Supporting Actor! You all rock!

The cast and crew of Bowmanville High School's production of There is No Play





Congratulations Jefferson High School!

Congratulations to the cast and crew of The Ithaca Ladies Read Medea for being the Metro West Conference Champions, placing first in the Section 3AA competition, and taking third in Finals!

The cast and crew of Jefferson High School's production of The Ithaca Ladies Read Medea







I was on Let's Make a Deal!

I was on Let's Make a Deal and Wayne Brady read some of Lord Abernathy's monologue from The Lady Demands Satisfaction! Oh, and I won a fabulous prize, but honestly - WAYNE BRADY READ MY PLAY! That's the best prize. During the break between the two episodes we filmed that day, he came up to me and said he was reading it and it was "very funny!" And that guy knows funny when he sees it!







Publication of a brand new play!

I am absolutely thrilled to announce that TRICKED is now available from YouthPLAYS. It's my sixteenth play with them, and it's a genuinely scary horror play for two teens!

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Buy me a latte?

So this site has had over 1.5 million visitors (see the counter above!), and I added a button for the "Buy me a coffee" website, thinking it might offset the cost of hosting the free monologues to download. Well.. it didn't. There was an initial burst of tips from some lovely friends, for which I am very grateful... and since then... very quiet. But you might be the visitor that suprises me! Chip in a buck or two today!





On Writing Monologues


A drama teaching friend of mine asked me to muse on what makes a strong standalone monologue for her class... so here's my take on it!