Mike Kimmel
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Mike Kimmel is a film, television, stage, and commercial actor and acting coach. He is a twenty-plus year member of SAG-AFTRA with extensive experience in both the New York and Los Angeles markets. He has worked with directors Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Townsend, Craig Shapiro, and Christopher Cain among many others. TV credits include Game of Silence, Zoo, Treme, In Plain Sight, Cold Case, Breakout Kings, Memphis Beat, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer. He was a regular sketch comedy player on The Tonight Show, performing live on stage and in pre-taped segments with Jay Leno for eleven years.
Mike has appeared in dozens of theatrical plays on both coasts, including Radio City Music Hall, Equity Library Theater, Stella Adler Theater, Double Image Theater, The Village Gate, and Theater at the Improv. He trained with Michael Shurtleff, William Hickey, Ralph Marrero, Gloria Maddox, Harold Sylvester, Wendy Davis, Amy Hunter, Bob Collier, and Stuart Robinson. He holds a B.A. from Brandeis University and an M.A. from California State University. As an educator, he has taught at Upper Iowa University, University of New Orleans, University of Phoenix, Nunez Community College, Delgado Community College, and in the Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Burbank, California public school districts. He is a two-time past president of New Orleans Toastmasters, the public speaking organization, and often serves as an international speech contest judge. Mike has written and collaborated on numerous scripts for stage and screen. In Lincoln’s Footsteps, his full-length historical drama on Presidents Lincoln and Garfield, was a 2013 semi-finalist in the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. He is the 2014 recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from Upper Iowa University. Mike is a full voting member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He is the author of Scenes for Teens, Acting Scenes for Kids and Tweens, and Monologues for Teens. |
Monologues for Young Adults
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Performing Arts
Monologues for Young Adults is an original collection of family-friendly, gender-neutral, stage and screen scripts to help young, up-and-coming actors nail their college drama program auditions and professional performances. Full voting member of the National Television Academy and longtime NBC Tonight Show with Jay Leno sketch comedy performer Mike Kimmel has been writing, acting, and producing for decades. He brings practical, real world experience from the Hollywood and New York trenches to the challenge of monologue auditions. With relatable, real-world topics applicable to young adults in their twenties and thirties, these scenes require no costumes or props, and discuss ethical questions ideal for deep thinkers to explore. If you like fresh content, optimistic spins, and challenging ideas, you’ll love this definitive new resource. 
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Scenes for Teens
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Performing Arts (for Young Audiences)
Scenes for Teens is meant to help simplify the acting and auditioning process for young performers. Created by an experienced actor with Hollywood and Broadway credits, these fifty original comedy and drama scripts are ideal for training and auditioning. The scenes are written for two actors, are gender-neutral, and intentionally exclude costumes, props, entrances, exits, complicated stage directions, and additional characters. In this way, Scenes for Teens is specifically designed to help young performers practice dialogue in a conversational and realistic manner. This allows student actors to focus completely on the one-on-one relationship. With an inspiring foreword by Kevin Sorbo - and a clear introduction to the art and business of professional acting by the author - Scenes for Teens is an effective teaching tool for young actors, their parents, and acting coaches. This is the first book in Mike Kimmel's young actor series, and led to the follow-up books Monologues for Teens and Acting Scenes for Kids and Tweens. 
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Monologues for Teens
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Performing Arts (for Young Audiences)
This is the new book from the author of Scenes for Teens and Acting Scenes for Kids and Tweens. Monologues for Teens is a collection of 60 original monologues on a wide variety of topics. They are designed to help teenage actors reach, stretch and stand out from the crowd. Each individual piece is gender-neutral and may be performed equally well by both male and female actors. These teen monologues are clean, thought-provoking, and designed to encourage positive attitudes and behaviors in our youth - and audiences. They are appropriate for film, television, and theater training. Includes a foreword by Emmy Award winner Jean Carol, and a detailed introduction to monologue selection, preparation and performance by the author. Monologues for Teens also includes helpful, behind-the-scenes suggestions on actor training and audition psychology. 
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Monologues for Teens II
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Performing Arts (for Young Audiences)
Teenage drama student tired of playing middle-aged grownups? Find stage pieces tailored to the real-world in this new collection. Monologues for Teens II is the latest installment in The Young Actor Series and the follow-up to the award-winning Monologues for Teens. Full voting member of the National Television Academy and longtime NBC Tonight Show sketch comedy performer Mike Kimmel has been writing, acting, producing, and teaching for decades. Now he’s here to share a curated collection of the best comedy and drama monologues for 2020. This is a collection with depth, heart, and pathos to challenge young actors and bring out their very best performances. These are monologues they've never heard before – and monologues they'll remember you by! No props. No costumes. No entrances. No exits. No fluff. No bad language. No snarky, mean-spirited scenarios. No talking down to you – or your audience. Gender-neutral monologues that can be performed equally well by all actors. If you're searching for fresh, emotionally rich performance material with a positive, optimistic viewpoint presenting ethical questions for our youth – then order this clear and definitive new resource – Monologues for Teens II – today. Nail your next audition tomorrow. 
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Acting Scenes for Kids and Tweens
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Performing Arts (for Young Audiences)
This new book from the author of Scenes for Teens is a collection of 60 original comedy and drama scripts for younger actors. The dialogues feature clean language and family-friendly, real-life scenarios. They are ideal for teaching, rehearsing, and auditioning for stage and screen. All scenes are gender-neutral, allowing every role in every scene to be performed by both male and female acting students. The scripts are varied, with shorter and longer selections, comical and more serious topics, and conversational dialogue intended to develop rapid-fire comedic timing, listening and reacting skills, and vocal variety. Overall, the emphasis is on straightforward, realistic interaction to build and solidify the one-on-one relationship between acting scene partners. Many scenes are educational, as well, modeling and reinforcing positive attitudes and behaviors for our youth. With a heartfelt foreword by Disney's Anita Barone, and a clear, concise introduction to acting by the author, Acting Scenes for Kids and Tweens is a simple - but effective - training tool for teachers, parents, libraries, schools, and drama coaches. This book offers a no-nonsense, practical approach for training young actors, and can be applied immediately in the home and classroom. Positive imagery, social relevance, and civic-mindedness are written into many scenes as subtext. 
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Monologues for Kids and Tweens
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Performing Arts (for Young Audiences)
“The monologues are brilliant! And the best part, there’s one to fit every audition, no matter what….He’s created another excellent guide to help young actors master their craft.” - Suzanne Lyons, Producer, Snowfall Films Does your child dream of being on television? Are you determined that your child escapes the perils of early stardom? Are you wondering how to get started? Casting Director Michael Shurtleff, author of Audition, was famously quoted as saying, “The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.” His student and talented character actor in his own right, Mike Kimmel, has translated that truth into a series of books that will help hone the skills of a young actor and help them understand how to handle and explore stage and film. Monologues for Kids and Tweens is a collection of 100 original comedy and drama scripts on a wide range of topics. Each piece may be performed by actors of any gender. No props or costumes are required. As Eva C. Nusbaum says, ”These short pieces acknowledge – and rightly so – that kids live in imperfect families in an imperfect world.” They touch on: * loss (The Comfy Red Chair) * consequences (Green Bananas) * shame (Little People) * duty (New Old Sneakers) * nostalgia (Little Magic Donut Seeds) The monologues are clean, family-friendly, and include positive messages, life lessons, and ethical questions for young people written between the lines. These are monologues they’ll remember you by. Ultimately, these monologues can help parents and teachers encourage positive attitudes and behaviors in our young performers – and their classmates and audiences as well. Appropriate for film, television, and theater training and performance. As Jack Klugman said, “Acting is a craft, and you must learn it.” Get started with The Young Actor Series and give your young artist the best chance of becoming a professional actor and a well-balanced, empathetic human being. 
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Monologues for Kids and Tweens II
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Performing Arts / Education
Tired of seeing mean-spirited, snarky performance material for young kids? Looking for material with an optimistic, positive spin? Full voting member of the National Television Academy and Tonight Show sketch comedy performer Mike Kimmel has been writing, acting, and producing for decades. Now he shares a curated collection of 100 of the best comedy and drama monologues. Monologues for Kids and Tweens II is a collection of 100 new comedy and drama pieces for our youngest performers. It is the 7th installment in The Young Actor Series. The scripts are easily relatable to children’s real-life roles as daughters, sons, siblings, students, and young athletes. Each piece is clean, gender-neutral, and may be performed by both male and female actors. The monologues run one to two minutes in length, with no props or costumes required. All scripts are clean, family-friendly, and include positive messages, life lessons, and ethical questions for young people––and all people––written between the lines. This material (and the subtext) can help parents and teachers encourage positive attitudes and behaviors in our young performers, their classmates and audiences. Appropriate for film, television, theater, speech and forensics competitions, and drama school auditions. If you're searching for fresh, realistic material that engages and challenges the intellect of our youngest actors–– and never talks down to them––then pick up a copy of Monologues for Kids and Tweens II today. Ace your next audition tomorrow! 
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One-Minute Monologues for Teens
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Performing Arts (for Young Audiences)
One-Minute Monologues for Teens is a collection of 100 original comedy and drama scripts on a wide range of topics. They are easily relatable to teenage actors' real-life roles as daughters, sons, students, (student athletes,) and after-school employees. Each monologue is gender-neutral and may be performed by both male and female actors in a one-minute timeframe. No props or costumes are required. The monologues are clean, family-friendly, and include positive messages, life lessons, and ethical questions for young people written between the lines. Ultimately, these monologues can help parents and teachers encourage positive attitudes and behaviors in our teen performers – and their classmates and audiences too. Appropriate for film, television, and theater training and performance – as well as college drama program auditions. 
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Monologues for Adults
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Performing Arts
Need a killer monologue for an audition? Discover a wealth of fresh options in this detailed tome. Sick of the same scripts being done to death? Looking for a soliloquy relevant to today's contemporary world? Seeking material with a positive spin? Full voting member of the National Television Academy and Tonight Show sketch comedy performer Mike Kimmel has been writing, acting, and producing for decades. He has worked on-screen with Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Townsend, Christopher Cain, David Simon, and David Solomon among many others. Now he’s here to share a curated collection of sixty of the best comedy and drama monologues for adult actors. Monologues for Adults is the ultimate volume of family-friendly stage material to help you nail that college drama program audition or professional stage performance. With relatable, real world topics applicable to adults, these pieces require no costumes or props, and discuss ethical questions perfect for deep thinkers to explore. And with literally dozens of gender-neutral and unique scenes to choose from, you’ll find the right piece to take you from zero to callback in no time at all. Monologues for Adults is the dramatic arts advantage you need in your next live performance. If you like fresh material, optimistic spins, and challenging ideas, you’ll love Mike Kimmel’s definitive new resource. 
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Six Critical Essays on Film
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Performing Arts
Need to write a Killer Essay for your film class? Want to learn how to grab your professor's attention and Stand Out BOLDLY from the college crowd? Author-Actor Mike Kimmel – a University Instructor and Entertainment Industry Insider – will show you how!! Six Critical Essays on Film is a clear, succinct guide to Studying and Understanding feature films as both a medium of communication and artistic expression. Intended for college and adult school students, this book offers a short – but diverse – selection of quality films from the 1920s through 1970s for review and application. The text provides Active, Workable Solutions you can apply today. Learn to:
Author-Actor Mike Kimmel has worked on both sides of the camera for more than 20 years in Hollywood and New York. He worked with Francis Ford Coppola, Oprah Winfrey, Robert Townsend, and Jay Leno. Mike teaches Real World Success Strategies – not theory. No fluff! This is the short, practical guide you need for your college coursework. Read it and use it today! 
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The Actor's Book of Quotes - Words of Wisdom for Performing Artists
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Performing Arts
Do you know an actor who needs a boost, a fresh perspective ... or just a little encouragement today? Maybe that actor is you? The Actor’s Book of Quotes is a broad and diverse selection of quotations-–by actors and non-actors alike-–to encourage, inspire, and support performing artists throughout their daily journey and creative process. A wealth of knowledge, worldly wisdom, and humor from some of the greatest minds of all time on topics and categories of special interest to working actors. Subjects include auditions, risk, rejection, self-confidence, self-esteem, success, survival jobs, technique, typecasting, visualization and so many, many more. A valuable resource volume for working professionals and dedicated newcomers in this highly creative and competitive field. 
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