Built For Abuse II: Acting Monologues For Women

by Joshua Todd James, Virtual Voice (Narrator)

Playwright, author, and screenwriter Joshua Todd James has gathered thirty monologues for women, collected from his plays 2 VERY DANGEROUS PEOPLE SHARING 1 SMALL SPACE, RUNNING IN PLACE, OLD DOG and many more... for actors for auditions, students for class study and for solo performances.

"Joshua James' work is bold, intelligent and subversive. Read it. Then find a way to make it happen on stage. American theater is clogged with the paltry visions of the privileged class, which assure us that the world we live in does not need immediate and radical change. James' work pulls the plug on sentimentality and comfort on stage. His work is at times dark, disturbing, but always arresting and shot through with a fine sense of humour." - Obie-award winning playwright Naomi Wallace

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Published October 11, 2025

About the author

JOSHUA TODD JAMES is the author of THE COMPANION CHRONICLES, detailing the adventures of synthetic person Jacob Kind in the novellas SOME ANIMALS, MINORITY OF ONE, FREEDOM RUN, MAN IN THE BOX, RENEGADE, and DOMO ARIGATO, MISTER ROBOTO.

An active member of the WGAE, he’s written the feature films Pound Of Flesh, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Take Cover, starring Scott Adkins and Alive Eve, among others.

His plays (under the name Joshua James) are also published on Amazon and elsewhere.

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