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Nice Girl

by Amanda Murray Cutalo

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.

Average Producer Rating: 4.0 out of 5

Recommended for High Schools and Middle Schools

At a Glance

Running Time
About 35 minutes
Approximate; excludes intermissions and scene changes
Cast
11 Characters
11 F
Plus Ensemble
Set
Simple set
Length
25 pages
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11 Characters

  • 11 Females
  • Plus Ensemble
  • YOUNG MIA Female 11 lines
    Told always to ignore people if they pick on you. That’s gonna do some lasting damage.
  • MIA Female 126 lines
    Nice Girl. Doormat. Prone to violent fantasies. One monologue.
  • MIA’S MOTHER Female 10 lines
    Means well, as all mothers do.
  • ANGIE Female 35 lines
    Likes Mia a lot. Perhaps more genuinely than the other girls.
  • JEN Female 37 lines
    Cruel, unusual. Takes her cues from Maggie.
  • MS. PARKER Female 32 lines
    Wasn’t born yesterday. Can see right through the schemes of her students.
  • COACH STANFORD Female 5 lines
    Does her best, as all coaches do.
  • LAUREN Female 9 lines
    Good dodgeball player, bad human being.
  • JILLIAN Female 8 lines
    She should take advice from Polonius, and neither a borrower nor a lender be.
  • MAGGIE Female 41 lines
    Frenemy Number One.
  • LOLA Female 10 lines
    A bit of a tattle-tale

Praise for Nice Girl

4 out of 5 stars
Danielle Gurnea
Zia Middle School
This is a great and empowering play for middle school girls.

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