monologist
monologuist

He is "a monologist," said a man who knew him.

It was like watching an incredibly able monologist playing many parts.

Spalding Gray, the monologist, sees this trend as a big wheel.

Alexander Stephens, a ruthless monologist, dropped his poison in the well.

He told Ms. Gomez of another monologist who died the same year her father bought his theater.

Kureishi is much more convincing as a dramatist than as a monologist.

Is she a singer, a monologist, a puppeteer, or some kind of tinkering instrumentalist?

"Kind of a hipster monologist from the 50's?

"Ian is essentially a monologist," she says, "so even when I wasn't participating, he was on a roll.

He made his professional vaudeville debut at the age of 21, and soon developed into a monologist, the predecessor to today's stand up comic.

No one drops names like the monologist Mike Albo.

As a performer, he has been active as actor, monologist, and occasional ventriloquist.

He spent some time in vaudeville as a monologist, and took his act to Europe and Asia.

(His father was the late monologist and actor Spalding Gray.)

Bobbie Louise Hawkins (born 1930) is a short story writer, monologist, and poet.

During his time in vaudeville Kendall was said to have been among the highest paid monologist in America.

The improvisers then use the monologue as inspiration for a series of scenes, which in turn inspire a response from the monologist.

A dramatic monologist is a term sometimes applied to an actor performing in a monodrama often with accompaniment of music.

What they were doing, in the process, was embodying the same aesthetic Spalding Gray invented when he first became a monologist.

But the near-disappearance of melody has freed her to become even more the consummate dramatic monologist she has always been.

He was a monologist.

The piece was written for and performed by actor and monologist Bransby Williams.

Father Hazzard was drawn up to the table with the monologist, following every word closely, and nodding in benign accord from time to time.

Davis studied under the monologist Leland Powers.

The term soliloquist can apply to a monologist reciting a soliloquy, usually from a play, to entertain an audience.

In the course of that evening, a monologuist read from his autobiography.

"It started as a joke," he said of the decision for him to be the original monologuist.

The 37-year-old monologuist turned to performing after jobs with newspapers in Boston.

With a baby to distract him, the monologuist seems to have begun a dialogue.

He too is primarily a monologuist, one who describes himself as "an old man made of lead and bitterness."

He probably hadn't even heard me Anyway, humor for a monologuist is an unwelcome interruption.

As a monologuist, he is still defining what it is he does.

"I think a lot of downtown people want to make it big," says the monologuist Frank Maya.

As an independent composer, he has scored the work of monologuist David Cole.

Nilsen also hosts his own blog called the monologuist.

All of Jack Kerouac is written as a monologuist taking everybody's part."

The 79-year-old monologuist will speak out on the pitfalls of daily living and will answer questions from the audience.

Eric Bogosian, the monologuist, writer, actor, is at a crossroads.

No monologuist could ask for more.

The field of first-person monologuist is generally more crowded, and more heavily abused.

But while he remains silent, she emerges as a Class 2 monologuist, introducing the stars as they appear.

From first to last, he is a comedian, sometimes the straight monologuist, more often the animated impersonator and mime.

And the occasional presence of Mr. Anderson, a monologuist in his own right, was not always a help.

Ask the frazzled monologuist to elaborate, and she says: "My whole show is my bio.

The 42-year-old star is also a character monologuist of modest ability who prefers to impersonate real people rather than invent fictional types.

The show's meandering quality contrasts with the precision of a monologuist like Spalding Gray.

Even standing up, Mr. Trillin is a wry armchair monologuist.

About 10 performers then improvise comic scenes, using and adapting the topic, with the monologuist coming back a few times, always as a soloist.

In one corner sat the comedian Janeane Garofalo, who was to be that night's guest monologuist.

When a professional busybody with a tape recorder introduced himself and asked the obvious questions, the underground monologuist parried them.