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 of 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 in the 1980’s. While teaching at the Lee Strasberg Institute, she decided to combine her past experience as a speech therapist with her acting experience to help actors with auditioning. That’s how the Haber Phrasing™ was born.
Since opening her Los Angeles acting studio way back in 1986, Margie and her team have successfully worked with many well known established actors, including Brad Pitt, Kyle Chandler, Tea Leoni, Vince Vaughn, Mariska Hargitay, Tiffany Haddish and Halle Berry.
Margie’s philosophy comes down to one specific goal: BE A COMPLICATED HUMAN BEING. It’s the key to the “creation of life” which allows you to successfully ‘act’ and audition organically and not technically.
Haber Phrasing™
Auditioning Can Suck!
We know what it’s like to go in for an audition and say what the f*** happened to my brain – it’s gone blank! All the memorization you’ve crammed into your head is gone. You’ve planned everything so perfectly! You’ve run the lines. You know exactly how you are going to move, what you want to feel, everything. And then… boom – it’s gone right out of the window. Sound familiar? It’s such a relief to be able to live a life, and not worry about the lines.
Are You Ready to Fix That?
Not only does the Haber Phrasing™ transform auditioning, actors learn to live in the creative mind rather than the technical mind. STOP BEING TECHNICAL IT GETS IN YOUR WAY. Our Los Angeles-based acting classes focuses on the whole creative process, beginning with the auditioning to fully creating characters for film, TV and theater. Margie Haber and her world-class team of coaches teach you to create through imagination and specifics. This allows you to truly “live the life” of another person. This healthy and nurturing acting-for-camera technique will improve your career and creative life. With self-tapes coming at us with lightening speed, this approach also helps you to be present, connected, and ultimately more interesting to watch. It’s called being human!
Recently, Margie has evolved her teaching to include personal understanding/transformation 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 but using pieces of yourself to create a real human being. The MH studio teachers are a collection of passionate mentors and collaborators who want to truly inspire you and help you achieve your professional goals. We will gently encourage you to step out of your comfort zone and remove the technical from the acting process.
The MH studio is a safe space for you to grow and achieve your career goals, whatever your level or 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
