Grammy-Award Finalist Topher Keene is widely regarded as one of America’s top Acting, Singing, and Public Speaking Coaches.
From teaching kids to sing their first solo, to helping Film and Television Stars perfect their roles, to helping pro Vocalists record hit albums, to helping YouTubers and Podcasters refine their vocal skills, to helping CEOs and Executives improve communication and presentation skills, Topher Keene can help anyone develop a powerful and confident voice and improve their performance skills.
DnD-Style Voice Acting Audition Lines, Vol. 2
Sharpen your audition skills with these original DnD practice lines designed for voice actors at every level. Each character offers distinct vocal range, emotional variety, and tonal contrast to help you build a versatile demo reel, prepare for casting calls, and develop authentic performances across genres including fantasy, sci-fi, action, and RPG.
Voice Acting Practice Lines for Anime Auditions, Vol. 2
Strengthen your audition reel with original anime-inspired character practice lines designed to build vocal range, emotion, and performance versatility. Featuring fresh archetypes including shonen heroes, tsundere rivals, magical girls, demon lords, and stoic swordsmen, these lines challenge actors across dramatic intensity, comedic timing, and tonal shifts. Ideal for anime dub auditions, demo reels, and ADR practice.
Voice Acting Practice Lines for Video Game Auditions, Vol 2
Sharpen your audition reel with original video game character practice lines designed for voice actors at every level. Explore distinct vocal archetypes including warriors, rogues, mages, and morally complex figures, each crafted to challenge range, emotion, and intensity. Perfect for building demo material, prepping for casting calls, and developing dynamic performance skills across fantasy, sci-fi, and action genres.
Monologues for Video Game Auditions Vol. 2
Monologues help voice actors practice pacing, emotion, character shifts, and vocal texture. Video game audition pieces are especially useful because they demand urgency, imagination, and clear stakes. Use these samples to explore heroes, villains, companions, merchants, bosses, and comic relief while building confidence with bold, playable choices.
Anime Monologues for Auditions Vol. 2
Monologues are powerful practice tools for voice actors because they isolate emotion, pacing, breath, and character intention. Anime auditions often demand bold choices: sudden comedy, explosive conflict, tender vulnerability, and heightened stakes. Practicing varied monologues helps actors build range, sharpen delivery, and discover memorable voices under pressure with confidence.
Space-Themed Sci-Fi Monologues Vol. 2
Monologues help voice actors build range, timing, breath control, and emotional clarity. In sci-fi settings, performers can practice urgency, wonder, fear, command, and humor while imagining vast worlds. These short pieces offer strong stakes, clear listeners, and cinematic moments perfect for auditions, warmups, or character exploration.
Fantasy Monologues Vol. 2
Here are a variety of Monologues for Actors and Voice Actors from a Fantasy setting, suitable for practicing Character Work, DnD (Dungeons & Dragons), Voiceover, or other vocal skills. Feel free to record and post on social media!
DnD-Style Voice Acting Audition Lines, Vol. 1
Original DnD voice acting practice lines for auditions, demo reels, character reads, and performance training. These fantasy, sci-fi, action, villain, hero, and NPC scripts help voice actors explore emotion, pacing, vocal texture, combat intensity, dialogue variety, and game-ready character performance.
Voice Acting Practice Lines for Anime Auditions, Vol. 1
Develop your anime voice acting range with original audition practice lines crafted for demo reels, casting reads, and character warmups. These fresh dialogue prompts feature heroes, rivals, magical girls, villains, mentors, students, mascots, and emotional leads, helping voice actors practice intensity, timing, reactions, transformation calls, and expressive anime performance.
Voice Acting Practice Lines for Video Game Auditions, Vol. 1
Sharpen your voice acting skills with original video game audition practice lines designed for character demos, casting reads, and performance warmups. These fantasy, sci-fi, action, comedy, villain, and emotional dialogue samples help voice actors explore range, intensity, pacing, accents, battle cries, narration, and memorable playable or non-playable character voices.
Monologues for Video Game Auditions Vol. 1
Monologues are a voice actor's gym. They build emotional range, breath control, and the ability to inhabit a character fully without leaning on a scene partner. Practicing video game monologues sharpens combat intensity, narrative weight, and tonal shifts in compact bursts. Use these to stretch, record, refine, and discover voices you didn't know you had.
Anime Monologues for Auditions Vol. 1
Monologues are the voice actor's gym. They build vocal stamina, emotional range, and the ability to sustain character through arc and silence. For audition practice, anime-style monologues sharpen tonal shifts from whisper to scream, comedy to heartbreak, all in seconds. Pick one. Read it loud. Record it. Repeat.
Space-Themed Sci-fi Monologues Vol. 1
Monologues are the deep end of the pool for voice actors. They build sustained character, manage breath without a scene partner, and force genuine stillness inside performance. The ten sci-fi pieces below run 1-2 minutes each, with clear tonal arcs and room for choices.
Fantasy Monologues Vol. 1
Here are a variety of Monologues for Actors and Voice Actors from a fantasy setting, suitable for practicing Character Work, DnD (Dungeons & Dragons), Voiceover, or other vocal skills. Feel free to record and post on social media!
How to Use Your Voice to Sound More Confident at the Podium
Here's something most public speaking books under-emphasize. The reason your favorite speakers sound the way they do — confident, grounded, in command of the room — is not because they were born with great voices. It's because they have, at some point in their lives, learned how to use the voice they have.
Getting Started as a Film Actor in Phoenix, Arizona
Are you looking to pursue a career as a film actor in Phoenix, AZ?
If so, here are some tips to help you get started:
Take Acting Classes: Acting classes are a great way to learn the craft and improve your skills. Look for classes in Phoenix that focus on film acting and offer on-camera training. You can find classes at local acting schools, colleges, universities, community colleges, and online.
Audition Monologues for Roles Where Characters Experiment With Something New, Vol. 10
Every actor hits a stretch where the work feels mechanical. The audition tape goes flat. The scene study sounds rehearsed. The fix is almost always new material, more often, with a wider emotional range than you would naturally choose. This final volume leans into creative acts. Characters who are writing, performing, singing, making things in front of other people for the first time. Vulnerable in a specific, useful way for actors. Use this set like a workout circuit. Pick the one that scares you slightly and tape it cold. Ten characters putting it out there.
Audition Monologues for Roles Where Characters Experiment With Something New, Vol. 9
The hardest thing to fake in an audition is genuine risk. Casting can tell the difference between a character who is technically taking a stand and one who is actually putting themselves on the line. The monologues in this volume are built around real exposure. Coming out, changing a name, walking into a room you weren't raised to enter. These can't be performed cleanly. They have to be risked. Use them for the kind of self-tape where you want to remind yourself what it feels like to commit. Ten characters, ten moments of stepping into something irreversible.
Audition Monologues for Roles Where Characters Experiment With Something New, Vol. 8
Auditioning is often a study in containment. The text gives you a small moment and asks you to fill it. Characters trying something new are gifts because the moment is already loaded. They are paying attention to everything, and so are you. Practice monologues like these build your capacity for specific physical and emotional detail. They reward the actor who can be a body in a new place, doing a new thing, in front of someone they care about. Ten monologues here. Ten different bodies, ten different rooms, ten very different firsts.
Audition Monologues for Roles Where Characters Experiment With Something New, Vol. 7
Cold-read auditions favor actors who can find the spine of a scene in seconds. That skill is built in rehearsal, on material that resists shortcuts. Characters experimenting with something new are good for this because the stakes are usually small but the emotional range is wide. You have to pivot between bravado, doubt, embarrassment, and quiet realization in under two minutes. That's exactly the range casting wants from working actors. Use these to drill flexibility. Ten characters, ten very different firsts, and a built-in reason to make ten very different choices.