Bennett Cooperman, consultant and actor, graduated from Syracuse University in 1976.

He is an internal communications director for a New York-based financial services firm, responsible for updating a national staff of 13,000 on company strategy and initiatives. He is a liaison between the U.S. firm and its parent company in Paris, to which he sometimes travels on business.

An Aesthetic Realism consultant since 1987, Mr. Cooperman and his colleagues give consultations to people from as young as five years old to men in their sixties. He takes part in public seminars at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation on the everyday and urgent questions of men such as: Real Self-Expression: How Can a Man Have It? Can We Be Proud of How We’re Decisive and Indecisive—Including about Love?; Flattery or Criticism: Which Do Men Truly Want?; What’s Missing When Husbands Talk to Wives?; and What Makes a Man’s Life Large or Small?

Mr. Cooperman is part of the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company, which presents lectures given by Eli Siegel on world drama. Included in the company's repertoire are presentations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Othello, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Moliere’s School for Wives, Sheridan’s School for Scandal, Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and George Kelly’s The Flattering Word.

As part of his theatrical training, Mr. Cooperman attended the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. He was a featured player on the daytime television series The Edge of Night. Other theatrical credits include a season at the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, Mass., and performances at Syracuse Stage.

Mr. Cooperman is a director of the Saturday evening presentations at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation.

He lives in New York City with his wife of nine years, Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman.

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