ACTING COACH: Heidi Marshall is a top industry acting coach for auditions, screentests, and performance.
Heidi Miami Marshall’s career has spanned over 25 years as an Acting Coach, Film and Theater Director, Casting Director, and Acting Studio Owner. Her entire career informs her coaching eye and influences her aesthetic for working with actors.
As owner of a top acting studio, Heidi has coached countless actors into roles and is frequently hired by actors, directors, and production studios to prep actors for auditions, screen tests and performance. Heidi has her eye on the ever-evolving biz and loves supporting the actor through all of the phases.
Heidi’s clients on screen and stage include: the cast of the upcoming film Being Heumann, directed by Oscar-Winner Sîan Heder (CODA); René Pérez (aka Residente) in Sundance Grand Jury Winner In the Summers (on-set acting coach); Little America (Apple TV+, on-set acting coach); Halle Bailey (The Little Mermaid, screen test); Hayes Warner (The Shards, screen test and series;, Fantasia (The Color Purple on Broadway, coach); Raul Castillo; Julianne Nicholson (Emmy Award winner); Jack Harlow; Chaka Kahn; Rueby Wood (Emmy nominee); Maren Morris; Rhiannon Giddens; Danielle Pinnock (CBS’s Ghosts); Jesse James Keitel; Lily-Rose Depp; Michael Cimino; H.E.R.; Jackson Wang; Thomas Doherty; Angela Lewis; Winnie Harlow; and many more. She also has clients shining bright across countless Broadway stages.
Notable collaborators include directors Chloe Zhang (Oscar winner), Sîan Heder (Oscar winner), John Turturro, and Baz Luhrmann. Top talent agency and manager allies include CAA, WME, Paradigm, and more. Casting Director collaborators include Carmen Cuba, Bernie Telsey, Tiffany Little Canfield, Sarah Finn, and more. Collaborators team up with Heidi to get their actors across the finish line in auditions, screen tests, and throughout production.
Originally, Heidi was the lead Casting Director at the Telsey Office for the Broadway musical RENT, as well as for 70+ projects in theater, film, TV, commercial, and voiceover. Heidi has directed on the Broadway shows The Addams Family, Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohéme, and The Color Purple. Heidi is also a filmmaker and continuously directing and developing short and feature films. Renowned Director Luhrmann says, “All of Heidi Marshall’s work has led me to see that she’s a director of first rate talent and ability.”
Heidi’s coaching and directing aesthetic is to build with shape and detail from what an actor brings quite naturally. Her actors’ performances are honest and derive from the actor’s instincts. She enjoys shaping material in response to the actor’s natural presence and humor to make the story dynamic.
As a Director, Heidi’s simultaneous filmmaker career provides a keen sensitivity to what is needed from actors. Her directorial skills in film and on Broadway quickly shape scenes and help actors make bold, clear, playful, visual, and strong choices. Her seasoned skills help actors move from analysis into playing the scenes in space and time with incredible attention to detail.
Heidi has worked with high-level performers who have never acted before, as well as seasoned, award-winning veteran actors. Her actors span diverse backgrounds, ages, and orientations. Each artist is a talent that she adores supporting in the process of creating strong and uniquely individualized self-tapes and performances.
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