 Hi, my name is Velhika and I'm an actress based out of California. And right now, Cynthia DeHiller and I are hosting a monologue competition. So Cynthia wrote this monologue book and we are together hosting a monologue competition where you can perform two of the monologues in here or one that we wrote together. We have a couple of videos all about it already, but I wanted to do another video about it and answer some questions that you might have. And just really encourage you to submit because we want to give this money away. So I wanted to come and answer some questions and encourage you to please submit. We are giving away $100 cash, no matter where you are in the world. We'll get it to you through, you know, through online and $100 towards an acting class at Actors Play LA, which is online or $100 towards Jackie Dallas Consulting. So you would get the $100 cash and then you would get $100 towards either acting classes or consulting, depending on where you are in your career. But yes, please submit. Even if you are an absolute beginner, we're going to be, you know, looking at these monologues and then from the monologues, we're going to be choosing a winner. So you don't need experience, you just need to do it. And today I'm going to talk about how your audition should look like and how you can submit and any questions that I have seen. And of course, this is a book she wrote specifically for black girls and then together we wrote a monologue about my name and I'm a Latina woman. But you can edit these to better represent your own experience, your age, your gender, your ethnicity, all of that. So I'm going to go over that in a second. And you do not have to purchase this monologue book. You can if you want to. The link of course is in the description, but we are providing a few of these monologues. And because we have not received any submissions in addition to, you know, just so much going on in the world right now, especially with the recent killing of Dante Wright, we wanted to extend the deadline to May 1st. The original deadline was April 17th, but it is now May 1st. Let me give you a quick recap of how to submit to this monologue competition. Again, you don't need any kind of experience. In fact, if you are an absolute beginner and have never acted ever ever, just do it. I highly encourage you to do it. Memorize the monologue, film yourself and send it in. And if you don't win, you can just treat this as practice, especially if you're a beginner and you have never done any kind of auditions or monologue competitions. You can do this as a practice and it'll be a learning experience. So a quick recap on how to submit. You need to follow Cynthia de Helaire on Instagram. And then on the original video where we announced the monologue competition, which it is linked right here, you can leave a comment, like, and of course, subscribe to this channel. After that, you can click on the link in the description and choose one of the monologues we provided. Start your video horizontally like this and do a slate, which is just your first and last name. Hi, my name is Benjika Rodriguez. And then you can edit your clip or immediately start your monologue, whichever one of the three monologues you selected, upload it to YouTube, send us an unlisted YouTube link or public YouTube link, if you would like, label it as we described and then send it over to belchikasubmissions at gmail.com. After that, I will let you know that I have received it because somebody did mention that they sent it, but it's not in my spam. I didn't receive it. So I will for sure confirm once I have received your submission. So if you are not a person of color or if you're not a female person of color and you do want to submit, I definitely want to encourage anybody that would like to submit to submit. So I'm going to give you templates of two of the monologues and put brackets around the sections that I suggest that you change if you aren't a black woman or a Latina like me and want to use something else to better represent your experience, your ethnicity, age, gender, all of that. And I'm going to use triple consciousness as an example because this is one of the monologues that we are giving you in order to submit. So the first line of this monologue is my name is Sin and I am Haitian American. So let's say your name is Jessica and you are of Chinese descent. You can say, hi, my name is Jessica and I am Chinese American. You get the idea. So all of that I'm going to do the entire monologue in the description of this video, put brackets around the sections that you can change so that you can modify it to your experience. And hopefully one of these monologues you will be able to modify to something that really you can relate to and you'll be able to perform it so much better. And if you want to perform the monologue that is about my name, you can modify it to be more truthful to your own experience. So if maybe your name is also a name that a lot of people don't necessarily know how to pronounce the first time they hear it or want to give you a nickname, something like that. Or if your name is really common and you're maybe tired of how much people say your name, but they're not really calling you like when you order a drink at Starbucks or some kind of coffee shop and you say, oh, my name is Alex and then five other Alexes are in the room. Maybe you can share an experience like that and you can modify this monologue, the template of this monologue to better represent your own experience. Let me know if you have any other questions about submitting to this monologue competition. I highly encourage you to do so, especially if you're a student in acting, you're getting started in acting or your advance, anybody submit, like I said, as of right now, April 14th, 2021, we don't have any submissions. So basically right now if you submit, you would win if you're the only person that submits. And if you're interested in donating to Dante Wright's family, Dante was murdered by police earlier this month. I have left all the links in the description of this video. And at the end of every video, I feature another channel. This is today's feature. If you would like to be featured on my next video, make sure you're subscribed, like this video and leave me a comment.