Play is a mapmaker and meaning-maker, drawing connections, queering boundaries and transcending limits wherever she/they go. As a visual facilitator and scribe, Play has worked across all sectors and subject matters. With a passion for transformation and making the invisible visible, Play supports partners and clients in unlocking their potential, fostering inner and outer alignment, and realizing their highest purpose.
Play comes to this work as an accomplished poet, events manager, academic and filmmaker, and after spending years immersed in the visual languages and landscapes of the American and Irish Deaf communities. Play holds an MA in Deaf Studies from Gallaudet University, a BA in Film & Media Studies and Women & Gender Studies from the University of Rochester, and is an alum of the Fulbright Program.
Play’s present work – an autobiographical webcomic about mental illness, addiction and God – is a fearless exploration of the lengths a person is willing to go, to heal.
How do you re-generate? Cold plunges in Lake Tahoe.
What do you hope never changes post-COVID? Witnessing and extending understanding for the full reality of one another’s existence, breaking down the walls between our many selves (work v home, etc). Growing only more fearless in the face of the hard and unknown.
What is your superpower? Seeing, and sharing that seeing with others. Being authentically myself, and thereby inviting others to do the same.
What’s something interesting about you we wouldn’t otherwise know? When I was fifteen years old, I conducted the Albany Symphony Orchestra in concert. I’m also related to Susan B. Anthony.
What is your favorite part of making transformational change in systems, organizations and people? Seeing and supporting an intangible vision take shape and form. The moments when my maps speak back to the group, generating even further insight and change.
What have you learned about the conditions for success? What promotes failure?
We can be oriented towards the possible and the longed for, taking bold steps towards it, or we can be oriented around reacting to what is, and what we fear could be. Only one of these will work.
What is your guilty pleasure? Not keeping kosher.
What’s one thing you’d want people to know about the Insyte Team? We are genuine, we are qualified, and we are deeply invested in our clients’ success.
Best testimonial? “You’re a magician. I’m envious of your talents in the best of ways… I love this kind of work, but yours is on a different level.”
What is the question your life seeks to answer? How amazing will it feel when we heal even more?
Favorite place on the planet? Lake Tahoe, CA.
