Molly Picon was an American actress of stage, screen, radio and television, as well as a lyricist and dramatic storyteller.
Picon in Car 54, Where Are You? (1962)
Jacob Kalich (second from left), Picon's husband, in the comedy play Mezrach und Maarev, 1921
Picon and Jim Nabors in Gomer Pyle USMC (1968)
A monologist, or interchangeably monologuist, is a solo artist who recites or gives dramatic readings from a monologue, soliloquy, poetry, or work of literature, for the entertainment of an audience. The term can also refer to a person who monopolizes a conversation; and, in an obsolete sense, could describe a bird with an unchanging, repetitive song.
An actor delivering a monologue