Nice Girl
Is there such a thing as being “too nice?” Mia, a teenage girl at an all-girls school, knows how to be a confident and assertive young woman who is not afraid to stand up for herself; the only problem is she can only act this way in her fantasies.
In Mia’s reality, she is the kind of girl who does her friends’ homework, lets people cut in front of her in line, and pretends to be someone she’s not in order to get a boy to like her.
As she repeatedly learns, being the “nice girl” requires a great deal of sacrifice and, often, frustration. As Mia eventually nears her breaking point, she decides the time has come for her fantasies to become reality.
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11 Characters
- 11 Females
- Plus Ensemble
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YOUNG MIA Female 11 linesTold always to ignore people if they pick on you. That’s gonna do some lasting damage.
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MIA Female 126 linesNice Girl. Doormat. Prone to violent fantasies. One monologue.
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MIA’S MOTHER Female 10 linesMeans well, as all mothers do.
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ANGIE Female 35 linesLikes Mia a lot. Perhaps more genuinely than the other girls.
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JEN Female 37 linesCruel, unusual. Takes her cues from Maggie.
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MS. PARKER Female 32 linesWasn’t born yesterday. Can see right through the schemes of her students.
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COACH STANFORD Female 5 linesDoes her best, as all coaches do.
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LAUREN Female 9 linesGood dodgeball player, bad human being.
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JILLIAN Female 8 linesShe should take advice from Polonius, and neither a borrower nor a lender be.
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MAGGIE Female 41 linesFrenemy Number One.
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LOLA Female 10 linesA bit of a tattle-tale
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