2026 Schedule - Speech Arts

Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou

Paper People by Harry Baker

Love Me, Love My Dog by Isabella V. Crawford

Dreamers by Siegfried Sassoon

Montauk by Sarah Kay

To All the Boys I've Loved Before - Chapter 20 - "After class is over, I wait for Peter..." by Jenny Han

Jane Eyre, Chapter 4 - "Sitting on a low stool..." by Charlotte Brontë

The Metamorphosis, Chapter 1 - "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed ..." by Franz Kafka

Paper Shadows - Chapter 7 - "Some lessons Mother hadn't counted on..." by Wayson Choy

Yellowface - Chapter 23 - "She straightens up. She's holding a camera..." by R. F. Kuang

Irina - "Andrey has gotten so petty, so slow, and so old..." from Three Sisters, Act III by Anton Chekov

Ros - "Do you ever think of yourself as actually dead..." from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Act I) by Tom Stoppard

Tom - "What do you think I'm at?" from the Glass Menagerie, Scene 3 by Tennessee Williams

Carol - "Why do you hate me?" from Oleanna (Act II, Scene 3) by David Mamet

MAN - "I was in the supermarket the other day about to buy some tuna fish..." from Laughing Wild, Act 2 by Christopher Durang

I Won a Giant Inflatable Banana at the State Fair... Now what? by Bradley Walton

Cassandra - "So you're miffed you're not playing a boffo character..." from Jihad Jones and the Kalshnikov Babes by Jussef El Guindi

Hotspur - "My liege I did deny no prisoners..." from Henry Fourth Part One, Act 1, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare

Beatrice - "Is he not approved in the height a villain?" from Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare

Hamlet - " Now I am alone. Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I!" from Hamlet, Act II Scene II by William Shakespeare

Hamlet - Act 3 Scene 1 - "To be, or not to be, that is the question..." by William Shakespeare

The Prank by Stephen Pederson

Once Upon a Time by Clara Pederson

Margin of Error by Charlotte Florence Deng

That Old Haunted House by Judith Viorst

Lake Superior by James Reeney

The Lost Generation by Jonathan Reed

Caged Bird by Maya Angelou

Love is not all by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Undone by Padma Venkatraman

The Three Little Pigs by James Finn Garner

Chapter 2 - "To cheer himself up, he took out from its case on the dresser a strange little flute..." from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S Lewis

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Chapter 6 - "The cat only grinned when it saw Alice..." by Lewis Carroll

Sara and the Search For Normal - "I put on the red dress and stepped out, eyes on the floor..." by Wesley King

Words Have Power - "I used to have a bullying problem..." by Ellen Oh

Lucy - "This is my room. No one's allowed in here, except me..." from Invisible Friends by Alan Ayckbourn

Ferris' opening monologue from Bueller's Day Off by John Hughes

Queen's monologue - "Trogg twins, terrible Trogg twins come here!" from Professor Fuddle's Fantastic Fairytale Machine by Alan Ball and Paul Bradbury

Charlie Brown - "I think lunchtime is about the worst time of day for me..." from You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown by Clark Gesner 

Lucy from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - "Linus, do you know what I intend…" by Clark Gesner (based on Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz)

Puck - "My mistress with a monster is in love..." from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 3, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare

Puck - "My mistress with a monster is in love..." from A Midsummer Night's Dream (Act 3, Scene 2) by Willam Shakespeare

Cassius - "I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus..." from Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare

Rosalind - "And why, I pray you? Who might be your mother..." from As You Like It (Act 3 Scene 5) by William Shakespeare

Puck - "My mistress with a monster is in love..." from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 3, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare

Mr. Penguin by Poet unknown

I Will Not Tease Rebecca Grimes by Dave Crawley

Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf by Roald Dahl

Squirrels in My Notebook by Florence McNeil

Dear Mum by Brian Patten

Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf by Roald Dahl

Class Pest by Kathy Kenney-Marshall

Marcus Makes a Movie by Kevin Hart

Alice in Wonderland - Chapter 6 - "The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice..." by Lewis Carroll

Chapter 12 - "Outside in the garden, at that very moment..." from James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Key Player - Chapter 35 - "I clutched Mr. Antwell's note for the rest of the day..." by Kelly Yang

Ramona - Chapter 3 - "The morning was so satisfactory that it passed quickly." by Beverly Cleary

Silverwing, Part I - Shade, "Shade let his echo vision creep…" by Kenneth Oppel

The Grand High Witch - "You may remove your wigs and get some fresh air into your spotty scalps..." from The Witches by Roald Dahl, adapted by David Wood

Veruca Salt - "Where's my Golden Ticket? I want my Golden Ticket..." from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Act 1 by Roald Dahl

Lance Monologue (Act 2, Scene 3) from The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare