Play the Part: Master Body Signals to Connect and Communicate for Business Success

Acknowledgments

I have a problem with the myth of rugged individualism promoted in American lore. The truth is, each one of us becomes who we are as a result of the generosity of time, knowledge, love, and care given by those who came before. Not one of us learned to walk, talk, read, or think without such devotion. That said, and in the spirit of deepest gratitude, I owe all I know first to my family and then to the amazing theater artists and teachers who were my direct or indirect teachers: My thanks go to Gloria Landes, who ran a theater school for kids, where I spent nearly every Saturday of my life from the age of nine until I left for college. I thank Paul Mann, Curt Dempster, Ted Kazanoff, Charles Marowitz, John Braswell, Byrne Piven, ...