Doe Lang

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Doe Lang, Ph.D., is the president of the New York-based image-consulting firm Charismedia, which so far has enrolled more than 150,000 people. She has also performed on Broadway and has appeared in many TV soap operas. She has also authored many self-help books, the most popular of them being Charisma.

1 Her career
2 Charisma
3 Acting
4 External links

[edit] Her career

Dr.Doe Lang graduated from Bennington College in Vermont], earned her Ph.D. in psychology and communication from the Union Institute & University|Union Institute and later served on the their Board for several years). She has taught at Columbia University, Temple University, Manhattan School of Music and the New School for Social Research. She has been cited for Distinguished Achievement by the International Who's Who in Education and the International Who's Who of Women. An accomplished concert pianist, opera and musical comedy singer and actor, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Italy, and has performed on and off Broadway, throughout the country and at Carnegie Hall and BAM. She starred as Maria in "West Side Story", Mame in "Mame" and Julie in "Showboat" also "the Jumping frog of calavaras County" by Lukas Foss, and "Triple Sec" by Marc Blitzstein in NY. On Broadway she performed with Bob Fosse, and Gwen Verdon. On TV, her long running roles on As The World Turns,Another World & The Edge of NIght" Night won her a devoted following. When her character, Nurse Karen Adams was written out, 5000 "ATWT" fans demanded her return - and she was written back in! On "Edge of Night" she sang the first jazz on live daytime TV, as Maggie Mack, a beatnik nightclub singer ) she won plaudits singing 'Mack the Knife" from ThreePenny Opera and "Black Coffee" with a jazz trio.)

Other TV roles included "Mayerling" starring Audrey Hepburn, directed by Anatole Litvak, "Blooomer Girl" with Barbara Cook, and two of the legendary "Omnibus" specials, hosted by Leonard Bernstein, one with Carol Burnett - David Letterman and many talk shows and commercials.
When still in school, she played and sang at major venues around the country - including the Hickory House, the Pierre, the Waldorf, the Sheraton, the Town house, the Cipango club in Dallas, and the Carlyle where she had her own piano duo with George Kent.
After dance injuries ended her theater career, the New School for Social Research in NY asked her to teach "Public Speaking for private People" - which became famous when Women's Wear Daily published a long admiring profile of her, entitled "Doe Lang's Class in Charisma". Subsequent articles appeared in most major publications from the Wall Street Journal,the NEW YORKER, HARPER'S Bazaar, Mademoiselle, Vogue, Elle and magazines in England Holland and Sweden. She was also teaching "How to be Comfortable and effective on Tv" "how to ACT WHILE Singing" Also Voice, Diction, Breathing - " - and her Charismacizes (fun, effective psychophysical exercises) are famous internationally.
Her latest bestseller "THE NEW SECRETS OF CHARISMA" is out in 8 languages and 25 countries. CALLED BY BILL SAFIRE OF THE NY TIMES "THE BEST IN THE FIELD- DRAWS ALL THE OTHER BOOKS ON THE SHELF CLOSER TO IT!" Her tapes are considered "the best in the field"

Always active in philanthropic concerns, ("Theatre people, artists and musicians are ALWAYS doing benefits - they're the most generous in the world!" she says.) she joined volunteers to help save the New York Public Library when it was in dire financial straits - - In 1982 she conceived and produced a huge free outdoor benefit in Lincoln Center "the peoples party" to let people know what a wonderful institution the library is. :-over 16,000 people attended. Featuring 460 performers and 7 Broadway shows, as a promo for to the Leonard Bernstein's Mass Benefit for the NYPL a few weeks later, the free event included the Long island symphony playing a Puccini MAss, the Alvin Ailey company dancing the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Mass, and choruses from the Manhattan School of Music and Juilliard on both balconies singing excerpts of the Bernstein Mass. Theatre luminaries urged the audience to save the NYPL . People contributed $18,000 on the spot, and the Bernstein benefit raised the rest to keep the Performing arts Library open. "'I didn't know I was a producer,' said beautiful young actress Doe Lang" (in an interview at the time, "'everybody thought I could get anything from anybody, but the real reasons were a) it was a great cause, and b) NOBODY was getting paid! People LOVE to rise to a great cause!"’ (A trustee of the Library said, "I've NEVER felt so safe in a huge crowd -love all around me - it was thrilling!")

The happy long-range benefit was that it proved the Plaza at Lincoln center could safely hold thousands. That was the first time Lincoln center had ever permitted such a large public event ( officials were nervous because all the pipes for the entire center are just under the surface)but when it proved safe for 16,000 people, they let generous donors sponsor annual Summer dance Parties, and many other wonderful events - which continue to this day!

For several years, Dr. Lang has been writing 2 columns for DBR Media Inc. which appear in 480 papers around the country, and online to several thousand around the world, including Europe and Asia..

Her weekly "Dear Dr. Doe" helps people find non-drug and spiritual resources for their problems, and her cultural column "Playing around" (as Pia Frode) reports on arts and culture around the world. She also takes time to teach dyslexic children and adults - her Breathing and Subliminal and subliminal tapes are particularly popular and powerfully effective.
After 9/11 she helped treat trauma victims with EMDR. In 2004 she was invited to Bali to help bomb survivors recover from their traumas, with Evolving Thought Field Therapy, and In September 2007she gave a seminar in Bandung Indonesia "The Art of Breathing for PPM (Positive Perception Management)-How to be Happy in Spite of Everything!" for JARI, which helps women suffering from domestic violence.

[edit] Charisma

Her thorough research on human behaviour, success, creativity, psychology and other areas are together the basis of her book Charisma, ISBN 0-8092-2826-2 which had sold more than 150,000 copies as of 2005. Her book won enormous critical acclaim for her extraordinary work on linking the relations between positive health, yoga, meditation, charisma, opera and success.

The New York Times called her book The New Secrets Of Charisma "...the best book of its kind".

The basic idea of her training is that anyone, at any age, in any job, and with any educational background, can learn to access and radiate his or her charisma.

Her revolutionary psychoanalytical techniques like O.O.S. (Optimum Operating State), Transformational Success Imagery, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Re-Processing) and Positive Perception Management (P.P.M.) have won acclaim in image-consultancy circles.