SEEKING REPRESENTATION
The Rainmaker’s Laboratory
AMY LEAVITT
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Rainmaker’s Laboratory is a curated selection and striking montage of lab notes that captures the unruliness of philosophical inquiry. It brings in William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lewis Hyde, and Iain McGilchrist to investigate themes of fear, ambivalence, risk, rhythm, value, power, and beauty, always returning to the latticework of language. It is composed of questions, jottings, anecdotes, transcripts, arguments, theatrical scenes, and snatches of songs. Bridging artistry and entrepreneurship, The Rainmaker’s Laboratory invites readers to consider their own flourishing amid a world of selling and being sold.
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ABOUT AMY LEAVITT
Amy Leavitt is an award-winning financial advisor and voice teacher, with five decades of experience in corporate boardrooms and conference rooms, theater rehearsal rooms and classrooms. She was the founding principal of one of the premier financial consulting boutiques in the US, and has been widely recognized as a pioneer in her field. In the second half of her financial career, she took up the study of voice, training in-depth with Patsy Rodenburg, OBE, Emeritus Director of Voice at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Here is a link to her article in Voice and Speech Review. She holds a BA from Dartmouth College in Philosophy and Language, and is an alumna of The Writers’ Institute at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
“I have been surprised to find that working with the human voice places me in the same laboratory of puzzlement, conducting the same investigations, as my rainmaking work—affirming Oliver and Young’s words: ‘Tain’t What You Do (It’s the Way That You Do It).”
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