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June 2006
Innovate1st.com
Liberating Creativity....... a conversation
Allen Schoer has combined a life as a New York City theater actor, director and teacher,
with years of international business experience. He is cofounder of TAI Resources Inc....(read more)
June 2006
OffBroadwayOnline.com
Gifford Booth, a co-founder and director of TAI Resources Inc.,
receives DeWitt Stern Local Hero Award at Off Broadway's Curtain Call
After attending a performance of Waterwell Production's The Persians last summer, Gifford Booth, Director of TAI Resources, donated rehearsal space at TAI for Waterwell's next production.
...(read more)
March 2006
Reuters
Workers in NY learn that all the world's a stage
Ellen Martin stood up before a class at The Actors Institute, recounted a difficult encounter at work and began to cry....(read more)
November 2005
Boston Herald
Digitas Inc.’s top execs are putting on an act
All the world’s a stage for local digital marketing company Digitas Inc....(read more)
2005
Journal Of Business Strategy
Seeing your audience through an actor’s eyes: an interview with George Stalk
This interview with George Stalk of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) shows how BCG began working with a theatre-based training organization to improve the quality of its consultants’ presentations at conferences and benefited in more ways than they expected. George Stalk is the author of Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win (with Rob Lachenauer and John Butman, Harvard Business School Press, 2004), Competing Against Time: How Time-Based Competition is Reshaping Global Markets (with Thomas Hout, Free Press, 1990, 2003), and several Harvard Business Review articles. Throughout his career, Stalk has been known for being innovative and being willing to take chances. The Actors Institute and TAI Resources of New York has been offering classes for actors, businesspeople, and students for 27 years....(read more)
May 2002
Business 2.0
Does Your Business Need Show Business?
My cousin had a karaoke party. I had to go because he’s my cousin, but I refused to sing because this would have pained the audience even more than it would have pained me. A woman at the party, however, impressed me by engaging the crowd even though she had no apparent singing talent. It turned out that this woman, Lindy, is a Sanford Meisner-trained actress who works for a consulting firm, teaching executives how to strengthen business relationships by using acting techniques. The course costs $275 an hour. I signed up....(read more)
September 2001
RWT
Creative Learning: A Subject for Everyone
Dear Fellow Educator,
I undertake this virtual dialogue with you knowing that there have been moments in your teaching or parenting experience where you were as emotionally captivated as I was when I found my 4-year old son lying on the floor, totally engrossed in a book. I assumed he was looking at the pictures and telling himself stories about them, only to discover, as I silently moved closer, that he was actually reading the text!...(read more)
May 2000
RWT
Inspiring Creativity Through Language: An interview with Allen Schoer
You’ve stated that words have a living, dynamic energy; that they are by nature invitational or evocative and can cause an impact, a response, a shift in perception, and a change in reality. Can you further describe the evocative nature of words? ...(read more)
December 1999
Harvard Management Communication Letter
Broadway Meets Wall Street:
Theatre training for better business presentations
Blame it on rapid-fire MTV-style television or the ever-faster barrage of advertisements, e-mails, and telephone calls, but business communicators need more than words to vie for space in their audiences’ clogged attention spans. Increasingly, presenters are embracing the idea of communication as performance, and they are turning to a logical source for guidance and inspiration – the theatre....(read more)
November 1998
Momentum The Official Journal of
the National Catholic Educational Association
Creativity: It is an energy that grows our lives
Following is an interview conducted with Allen Schoer, who is the CEO of TAI Resources in New York City. Allen has directed on- and off- Broadway productions and teaches a master class in acting. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Potsdam and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Ohio University....(read more)
April 1998
THINK
Interview with Allen Schoer
"Seven of us, who all came from a theater background, founded the organization in the late 1970s. We started from the simple notion that actors spend most of their lives looking for work. Who helps the artist, the actor, to continue to generate and regenerate his or her own creative vitality while continually waiting for work? Who helps artists continue to hear their own voices and find ways to re-spark themselves in the middle of rejection and waiting? We did not want to do therapy or enlightenment work. That all has its place, but we were interested in taking the principles of coaching we knew from theater – how to coach and direct a theatrical production, how to bring out the creativity in each actors in an ensemble. We wanted to take these principles out of the theater and use them to coach individuals."...(read more)
August 1994
Momentum
Get Creative: The Institute Searches for the Actor in Everyone
For many people, creativity is little more than a dim childhood memory. Games of make-believe and let’s pretend have little place in the cold world of adult realities. When a boss tells an employee to “get creative,” the message is clear – and it’s not about play.
But at The Actors Institute (TAI) on West 21st Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues, creativity is fostered and encouraged in everybody from secretaries to lawyers an plumbers. And, of course, actors....(read more)
June 1989
Asbury Park Press
Creative Business
The recesses of your mind are strange places. Your fantasies, your visions, your playfulness and your passions can snuggle into those alcoves and get very comfortable in the shadows. They can exist on shallow breaths and meager nourishment while sentries protect them....(read more)
October 1987
Pencil Pointers
Why Risk-Taking Promotes Creativity
Any form of risk-taking can promote creativity by it’s very nature, because risks tend to stir things up....(read more)
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