If the world’s a stage and you could play
any role, what role would you play?
THE WORLD IS YOUR
STAGE
ENHANCE YOUR RANGE AND VERSATILITY AS A LEADER
OVERVIEW
In today's rapidly evolving world, adaptability is essential.
As markets shift, technology advances and global events bring new challenges, the importance of adaptive leadership has never been greater.
Adaptive leadership equips us with the skills to navigate these complexities with agility, foresight, and resilience.
LOGISTICS
SCHEDULE
Friday, November 15: 10:00AM to 9:00PM
Saturday, November 16: 10:00AM to 9:00PM
Sunday, November 17: 9:00AM to 7:30PM
Workshop sessions are between two and three hours in duration. There are breaks between sessions, including two 90-minute meal breaks on Friday and Saturday, and one 90-minute meal break on Sunday.
PRICE
$5,000 per participant
The cost of travel and accommodation is not included.
LOCATION
159 West 25th Street, New York, NY
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
The World Is Your Stage supports you in transcending your limitations and expanding your versatility and adaptability as a leader by drawing upon time-tested techniques for training professional actors combined with Vanto Group’s proven methodology for personal and organizational transformation.
This unique combination of disciplines gives you hands-on access to the kind of versatility and capability to change and adapt that great actors demonstrate when they play characters of different types and personalities while remaining fully three-dimensional and completely believable in every role.
The workshop leaves you able to speak, move, think, and feel in unlimited ways such that you find yourself being effective in a wider variety of situations than you would have believed possible.
You don’t need to be an actor or have any prior acting experience to benefit from this workshop.
This workshop, created by Werner Erhard and Sanford Robbins, combines time-tested acting techniques with a proven methodology for personal and organizational transformation. The combination of these extraordinary methodologies supports participants in discovering new, powerful, effective, and satisfying ways of generating themselves at work and in life.
WHY THIS WORKSHOP?
→ Transform Your Future: Create a new future for your organization, career, and yourself that is not limited by the past.
WHO THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR
This special rendition of The World Is Your Stage is being offered by Vanto Group for professionals at all levels – executives, entrepreneurs, emerging leaders, and managers – who seek to break through past-based patterns of behavior, enhance their self-expression and adaptability, and generate new possibilities for their business and their life. No prior acting experience is required.
FACULTY
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Sanford (Sandy) Robbins
is the founder and former Producing Artistic Director of the Resident Ensemble Players (REP), the professional theatre at the University of Delaware, as well as the founder and former Director of Training for the University’s Professional Theatre Training Program
(PTTP), which is ranked as one of the top ten theatre training programs in America by U.S. News and World Report.
Theatres for which Sandy has directed include the Alley Theatre, Oregon Shakespearean Festival, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival, and American Players Theatre, as well as multiple productions for the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, where he served for several years as a Resident Director. Internationally, he has directed the international premieres of Sam Shepard plays for the national theatres of several foreign countries, including Buried Child for the Moscow Art Theatre Studio and the National Theatre of Cyprus. His production of Shepard's The Tooth of Crime received the Thalia Award for Best Production in Finland, an award won the previous year by Ingmar Bergman.
Sandy also serves professional theatres as a text and verse speaking coach for Shakespeare and other classic plays, most recently for the Alley Theatre's production of Hamlet. In addition to his teaching for the PTTP, he has taught acting, voice, verse speaking, and period style at Carnegie Mellon University, Los Angeles City College, and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 2019 Sandy received the prestigious John Houseman award for his contributions to the American theatre.
Sandy is a senior member of the Research, Design and Development Teams for Landmark Worldwide and Vanto Group and has been participating in the design of Werner Erhard’s, Landmark’s, and Vanto Group’s programs since 1988. He also supports the training of Landmark’s and Vanto Group’s Program Leaders and Consultants. Sandy currently works with Vanto Group as a program designer and Senior Consultant.
ADDITIONAL FACULTY
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Joann Browning
Joann Browning creates and coaches movement, choreographs, and provides musical staging for a wide range of professional theatres and dance companies. Past credits include the Alley Theatre, the Enchantment Theatre, Resident Ensemble Players (REP), and the Delaware Theatre Company. As a dancer, she has performed with the Kathryn Posin Dance Company in New York, James Sutton & Dancers, Repertory Dance Company of the Southwest, Milwaukee Dance Theatre, Dancers Unlimited, and Thunderclap Productions. She has served as a guest teaching artist for universities around the country, and has conducted movement workshops throughout the U.S. and in London, Japan, Thailand, Canada, and for The Voice Foundation of Philadelphia. Joann was Senior Associate Dean for the Arts and the Associate Director of Training and Head of Movement at the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Delaware as well as resident choreographer and movement coach to the Resident Ensemble Players, the University’s resident professional acting company. With the REP, she has performed as “The First Fairy” in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and as “The Baby Dinosaur” in The Skin of Our Teeth, both directed by Sanford Robbins.
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Deena Burke
Deena Burke has coached dialects, voice, speech, and text for theatres including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Old Globe Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Intiman Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre, Center Stage, and the McCarter Theatre. She developed the Voice and Speech component of the MFA program at the Old Globe/University of San Diego, served as Head of Voice and Speech at the Cornish College of the Arts and has taught at the California Institute of the Arts, University of California-San Diego, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the University of Washington. Deena’s acting credits include major roles at the Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, A Contemporary Theatre, and the Resident Ensemble Players (REP). Deena is a graduate of The Juilliard School and was a faculty member of the University of Delaware Professional Theatre Training Program as well as an actress in the Resident Ensemble Players. At the REP, Deena played the roles of Ivy in Osage Orange County, Susan in Wait Until Dark, Dorine in Tartuffe, Brooke in Noises Off, Slippy Helen in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Liz Morder in Our Country’s Good, Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera, Sam in the world premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s Fever, and Miss Casewell in The Mousetrap among others.
“ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE,
And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.…”
~ William Shakespeare, As You Like It