Bennett Cooperman
I’m an Aesthetic Realism consultant, actor, and singer, and a graduate of Syracuse University. For many years, I was also an internal communications professional working for multi-national companies.
Since 1987, I’ve given consultations with my colleagues to men of all ages. And I take part in seminars at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation on the everyday, urgent questions of men: Indecisiveness in Men—What Is the Cause?; What’s Missing When Husbands Talk to Wives?; and What Makes a Man’s Life Large or Small?
I’m proud to be a cast member in the esteemed Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company, which presents talks given by Eli Siegel on world drama. Included in our repertoire are presentations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Othello and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Moliere’s School for Wives, Sheridan’s School for Scandal and Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. We also give musical presentations, such as Life, Love, and the Opposites—A Cabaret!, in which we perform the songs and comment on their beauty—and what they can teach us about ourselves.
Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman
I am an Aesthetic Realism consultant with the teaching trio There Are Wives, and each month we conduct the Understanding Marriage! workshop in which women learn the basis for a kind, successful marriage.
I’m also a public speaker on issues that concern women, including eating disorders. I’ve given talks at Columbia University, Princeton University, for high school and junior high students and others. Through my study of Aesthetic Realism, ten years of anorexia and bulimia ended in my life, and I’ve been a healthy, happy woman ever since.
Originally from Massapequa, N.Y., I studied art at Parsons School of Design in New York and at Rocky Mountain College in Montana. Topics I’ve spoken about in public seminars at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation include: “Our Greatest Need: What Is It?”; “What’s More Important: To Appreciate Rightly or Be Praised?”; and “Why Are Women Disappointed, and Do We Ever Want to Be?”
We are proud to study in professional classes for Aesthetic Realism consultants and associates, taught by Ellen Reiss, the Chair of Education.