BEST ACTING COACH

Gregory Berger—known as Berg— is the founder of Berg Studios in Los Angeles (est. 1998). His students and clients have received Academy Awards, Emmy Awards and nominations, and Tony Awards. He is a graduate and former faculty member of the Yale School of Drama, where he taught On-Camera Acting Technique.
Berg's clients include Academy Award winners and Emmy winners such as Lupita Nyong'o, Riz Ahmed, Winston Duke, Aziz Ansari, Michaela Coel, Jonathan Majors, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Simone Ashley, Hasan Minhaj, and Moses Ingram, with direct coaching work on projects including Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, Us, Mother Mary, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, A Quiet Place, Sound of Metal, Mogul Mowgli, Encounter, Black Panther, and Nine Days.

His recent television coaching credits include work during production with series regular leads on acclaimed and award-winning shows including Forever, The Night Agent, Frisco King, Yellowjackets, The Residence, Nine Perfect Strangers, Bait, Gen V, Snowfall spinoff, Tell Me Lies, Joseph of Egypt, Harlem, Manifest, Griselda, Titans, The Body, Selena, as well as Scorsese-Spielberg's Cape Fear and Brothers starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.

As an actor, Prior to Yale, he trained at Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City and studied with legendary teachers including Paul Mann (who trained Sidney Poitier, Al Pacino, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis), Earle R. Gister (Frances McDormand, Angela Bassett, Paul Giamatti, Liev Schreiber, John Turturro, Patricia Clarkson), Michael Howard (Kerry Washington, Olympia Dukakis), Kim Stanley (Joanne Woodward, Jane Fonda), Nikos Psacharopoulos (founder of Williamstown Theatre Festival), and Evan Yionoulis (Dean of Yale and Juilliard).

Berg Studios has been voted Best Acting Class, Best Classical Class, Best Monologue Coach, and Private Coach by Backstage Magazine. He teaches bi-coastally and leads international workshops.