For the past 30 years, Margie Haber has taught many of Hollywood's rising stars and working actors. Her clients have appeared in hit movies, TV shows, and cult classics and in a variety of media.

Here are a few names on her list of growing clients: Brad Pitt, Vince Vaughn, Halle Berry, Heather Locklear, Kelly Preston, Kyle Chandler, Eric Close, Kristin Davis, Laura Innes, Stephen Collins, Traylor Howard, Haaz Sleiman, Vondie Curtis Hall, Sophia Bush, Amy Smart, Jeri Ryan, Traylor Howard, Mariska Hargitay and Molly Sims.

What is it that Margie teaches? She's an acting coach, but the real answer to that question is the title of her book. Margie teaches actors How to Get the Part without Falling Apart. Based on her 30 years of experience as an actress and teacher, Margie takes away the three P's of pain, panic and performance anxiety from the cold reading process and gives back the big P, POWER, to the actor. She teaches actors how to get out of their own way in auditions, how to break down the scene for the best approach, and how to use her unique technique in breaking down the phrases in a scene or script.

Margie was an audition coach in the 1980's, when two of her clients, Brad Pitt and Michael Easton wound up testing for the same role in the film, Thelma & Louise. That was Brad's breakthrough role. Margie helped him prepare for the test and the role, and has been doing the same for other successful actors ever since.

A highly respected acting coach on both coasts, as well as internationally, Margie is perhaps best known for her development of a successful audition technique that has helped hundreds of actors prepare and succeed.

Born in New York, Margie received her Bachelors degree from Ithaca College and her Masters in speech pathology from Brooklyn College. She left New York for the West Coast in 1970, and embarked on a meaningful acting career in the film capital, which spanned two decades. During those years, Margie guest-starred in films and TV series and was the quintessential mom in countless commercials.

In the late 70's and early 80's, Margie combined her acting career with a career in teaching. It was while teaching at the famous Lee Strasberg Institute that she recognized the need and value of a good cold reading technique. In 1982, she formed the Performing Arts Corporation (PAC), the first of its kind, offering a forum for producers, directors and casting directors to share their knowledge in a professional teaching capacity.

Teaching her techniques to clients all over the world, Margie finally chose LA as her operations base, and her reputation has grown to where today she is regarded as the top cold reading specialist in the country. Working at her studio with an incredible staff of coaches for both adults and youth clients, Margie also teaches on-camera techniques and holds seminars throughout the United States and abroad. She recently returned from teaching in Louisiana and Ireland, and has been invited to teach in Korea and Japan.

The demand to learn Margie's technique has grown so much over the years that she has opened her doors to actors all over the country and the world with her International Studies Program. This is a program that runs 3-4 times per year wherein 12 actors from all over the world come to study for one month with Margie and her coaches at her studio in Hollywood.

In recent news, Margie starred in Ireland's popular television series, Hollywood Trials. This television program followed the lives of ten of Ireland's rising stars while they tried to make it in Hollywood, and there was none else than Margie Haber to teach them how to stop acting and start living the lives of the characters.

Margie Haber's success might best be described in some of her clients own words:

Academy Award winner Halle Berry has this to say, "...I came to see Margie, worked with her, got a whole bunch of great ideas and was so prepared to go back. I was going to go get this job and I was gonna knock their socks off because I was so ready."

Spirit Award Nominee for “The Visitor” Haaz Sleiman raves, “Studying with Margie was a very rewarding experience. Her authenticity as a person and as an acting coach gave me a deeper and more profound insight to acting. With Margie you get what you see. She is very real and her process is all about capturing that in the work. The simplicity yet depth of her approach gave me the ability to realize the power of stillness and that less is more as long as it is rooted in truth. The Haber technique is by far one of the most effective tools I use when I'm auditioning.

Kelly Preston (Jerry McGuire, Addicted to Love) confirms, "Margie understands actors and is wonderful with them. She has developed a fabulous technique for auditioning and getting the job in a limited amount of time.”

Molly Sims (Las Vegas) praises, “Margie Haber is a great teacher for any level of actor. She can help you take your auditioning skills to the next level. She is fantastic in every way.”

Heather Locklear (Melrose Place, Dynasty) says, "There are so many acting teachers out there, and I've studied with some of the best, but for auditioning, there's only Margie.”

 

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