Who is Mona Hala?
You may have known Mona Hala as an actress long before you knew she taught acting.
Mona began acting at twelve. Since then, her work has moved across television, film and theatre, in Egypt and internationally.
01 /Screen work
Egyptian television and cinema, including The Dead Heart and Love Story, alongside comedy and drama.
02 /Stage across eight countries
Productions performed in Egypt, Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, India and Tunisia, including King Lear, Der Fall Meursault, Zig Zig and The Passenger.
03 /Awards
Acting awards at different stages of her career on stage and screen.
This is not here to tell you that Mona has done a lot of acting. It matters because the person asking you to build a character, listen to your scene partner, understand a script and work truthfully on camera has had to do those things herself, under real professional pressure.
How you move from someone who can act to an actor who knows how to work.
Action is character • Behavior reveals truth
Different characters. Different forms. The same question: what makes a performance live?
Mona's credits move through television, cinema, comedy and theatre, including The Dead Heart, Love Story, Cairo Time, Namour, 10×10, King Lear, Zig Zig and The Passenger. We can turn that archive into classroom work: what did the character want, what action was she playing, what was happening in the body, would she make the same choice today.
Mona Watches Mona clips will appear here when scene recordings are available.
Experience did not stop Mona from becoming a student again
After years of work, she trained at New York Acting Studio and Stella Adler in Los Angeles.
New York Acting Studio
Introduction to Meisner, Technique I and Technique II.
Stella Adler Academy of Acting
Three levels of Stella Adler training.
That is one reason her classes are not built around watch me and copy what I do. You work with tools: action, imagination, observation, circumstances, character, improvisation, text, body, listening.
There is a difference between an actor who occasionally teaches and a trainer who has spent years watching where actors get stuck
Jesuit Film School, Workshop 101, Austrian cultural programmes, workshops in Saudi Arabia and Sharm El-Sheikh, and online training with participants in several countries.
More than ten actor-preparation workshops for screen and stage.
Intensive programmes for working actors and beginners in Cairo.
