Hollywood's Top Audition Coach
For more than 40 years, Margie Haber has been known as Hollywood’s top audition coach. Through in-person and online acting classes and workshops, Margie and her fantastic team coach actors from around the world. Margie pioneered the world-renowned Haber Phrasing™, an alternative to memorization, that allows actors to remove the stress and anxiety from auditioning. For many of our actors, this has completely revolutionized the self-taping process.
“My hope for all actors is to enjoy the process and love creating. Isn’t that why you became an actor in the first place ?”
- Margie Haber
An actor, coach, and author, Margie transferred to Hollywood from New York in the 1980s. While teaching at the Lee Strasberg Institute, she decided to combine her background as a speech therapist with her acting experience to help actors audition more effectively. That’s how the Haber Phrasing™ was born.
Since opening her Los Angeles acting studio back in 1986, Margie and her team have successfully worked with many well-known, established actors, including Brad Pitt, Kyle Chandler, Téa Leoni, Vince Vaughn, Mariska Hargitay, Tiffany Haddish, and Halle Berry.
Margie’s philosophy is encapsulated by one specific goal: be a complicated human being. It’s the key to the “creation of life,” which allows you to audition and “act” organically – not technically.
Haber Phrasing™
Auditioning can be rough... Here's how Margie's approach makes it easier.
We know what it’s like to be in the middle of an audition and suddenly think, “What the f*** just happened to my brain? It’s gone blank!” All the memorization you crammed into your head is gone. You planned everything so perfectly! You ran the lines. You knew exactly how you were going to move, what you wanted to feel, everything. Then… BOOM! It’s gone right out the window.
Sound familiar?
Introducing the Haber Phrasing™, an alternative to memorization that allows actors to use the paper in hand for auditions and stay fully present, alive, and connected. It’s such a relief to be able to live the life without worrying about the lines.
Ready to remove the anxiety and start booking?
Not only does the Haber Phrasing™ transform the auditioning process, but it guides actors to live in their creative mind versus their technical mind. Stop being technical – it gets in your way! Our Los Angeles-based acting classes focus on the whole creative process, beginning with the audition and carrying through to fully creating characters for film, TV, theater, and commercials. Margie Haber and her world-class team of coaches teach you to create through imagination, specificity, empathy, and curiosity. This allows you to truly “live the life” of another person. This healthy and nurturing on-camera acting philosophy will improve your career and creative life. With self-tape auditions coming at us at lightning speed, this approach also helps you to be present, connected, and more interesting to watch. It’s called being human!
Recently, Margie’s teaching philosophy has evolved to include personal transformation and self-reflection, as documented in her second book, F*ck Your Comfort Zone. When you understand yourself fully, you are more easily able to step into the life of the character. Our philosophy is all about being specific while using pieces of yourself to create a real human being. Our teachers are a collection of passionate mentors and collaborators who will inspire you and help you achieve your professional goals. They will gently encourage you to step out of your comfort zone and remove the technical pressures from the acting process.
The Margie Haber Acting Studio is a safe space for you to create, grow, and achieve your career goals, whatever your level of experience.
"I've had a number of coaches during my time in La La Land. Margie was the first one to teach me how to wield my creative life like a superpower."
- Terrell Battle, Actor (Black-ish, The Good Doctor, Killing It)
Margie’s New Book is Now Available
How to Get the Part Without Falling Apart
Acting Podcast with Margie Haber
