The World Is Your Stage

The Workshop Where Being Meets Acting

December 2 – December 6, 2025

Live Aqua Punta Cana
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

Great actors astound us with their versatility.  They create themselves in each play or film as entirely different characters – speaking, moving, thinking, and emoting in whatever ways are required.

What if you could harness that same versatility to create breakthroughs in your self-expression and effectiveness?

What if you could create the rest of your life with the power, freedom, and creativity with which master playwrights create surprising, fulfilling, and uplifting plays?

This unique workshop enables you to invent and fulfill powerful new possibilities for you and your life by standing inside Shakespeare’s famous observation, “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players” and engaging playfully but deeply in the questions:

“If a great actress can play Medea on Tuesday night, Blanche Dubois on Wednesday night, and Lady Macbeth on Thursday night, and in each case be a fully three-dimensional, completely believable, entirely different human being, why are we stuck being the person we wound up being?

If a great playwright can create plays that delight, surprise, and uplift the audience and their characters, why are most of us left facing the next episodes of our life story with trepidation, hope, effort, resistance, or resignation?”

Imagine having the ability to move, speak, feel, think, and Be any way you choose – at any time, in any situation, and with anyone – as you create and live into an exciting and inspiring future of your own design.

During the workshop you will be coached by professional stage actors in breaking through limits in your voice, movement, and emotional availability and expressiveness as you create and begin to fulfill a new “third act” for the story of your life in a way that lights up life in the present.

As a result of participating in this workshop, we promise that you will:

  • Create a new level of versatility, prowess, and ease in your personal and professional lives.
  • Break through limitations in your ability to express yourself and discover a reliable access to a rich and infinite range of self-expression.
  • Create a new “third act” for your life – a new future that lives for you as an unprecedented, inspiring possibility which lights up your experience of the present.

 

SCHEDULE

The workshop will take place in the Dominican Republic at Live Aqua Punta Cana December 2-6, alongside the Year-end Vacation Course.

        Tuition Includes:

              All Workshop Sessions plus:

    • 6 nights’ accommodation at Live Aqua Punta Cana
    • All food and beverages, taxes, and gratuities
    • Airport transfers on December 1 and December 7
    • Welcome orientation and reception on December 1
    • Welcome Dinner and Dance on December 2
    • Farewell Gala Dinner and Dance on December 6
    • “Bye-bye breakfast” on December 7

 

TUITION

Double occupancy: $8200

Single occupancy: $8700

   Required Deposit: $2000

   Final payment due: September 15, 2025

FACULTY


Sanford (Sandy) Robbins is the founder and former Producing Artistic Director of the Resident Ensemble Players (REP), a professional theatre located on the campus of the University of Delaware, as well as the founder and former Director of Training for that University’s Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP), 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. He has directed the international premieres of Sam Shepard plays for the national theatres of several foreign countries, including 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 the programs of Werner Erhard, Landmark, and Vanto Group since 1988. He also trains Program Leaders and Consultants for both Landmark and Vanto Group.


Joann Browning 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 across the United States 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 (REP), the University’s resident professional acting company. With the REP, she performed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Skin of Our Teeth, both directed by Sanford Robbins.


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 (REP). 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.

For more information or to register, contact Cynthia Barnett, at +1 469 360-3200 (Pacific).

 

CANCELLATION POLICY

Between the time of registration through September 15, 2025, $1000 of the tuition is non-refundable and non-transferable. $1000 is transferable to another Landmark program within two years. Any additional monies paid are refundable or transferable to another Landmark program within two years.

Between September 15, 2025 and October 31, 2025, $2000 is non-refundable and non-transferable. Any additional monies paid are refundable or transferable to another Landmark program within two years.

Between 1-Nov-25 and 1-Dec-25, 100% of the tuition is non-refundable. 65% is non-transferable and 35% is transferable to another Landmark program within two years. Discounts or promotional offers are non-refundable and non-transferable.