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Publications

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Creating Community & Building Connection Through Play: An Improvisational Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic
Creating Community & Building Connection Through Play: An Improvisational Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic

International Journal of Play, Volume 11, 2022

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A Year of Creating Heart in a Havenless World
A Year of Creating Heart in a Havenless World

POIESIS: A Journal of the Arts and Communication, Volume 18, 2021

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Playing Around with Changing the World
Playing Around with Changing the World

The Applied Improvisation Mindset: Tools for Transforming Organizations and Communities, Bloomsbury Press (2021)

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Podcasts

Marian has been featured on the following…

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Association for Therapeutic & Applied Humor LaughBox interview

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All Power to the Developing!
Improv & Democracy

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Playgrounding Being + Becoming:
It’s Time to Ditch the Script

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Featured Blog Posts

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And just like that, we wrote a play
And just like that, we wrote a play

Read, feel, listen, dance… and come create with us.

Our Creative Playground Makes Poetry
Our Creative Playground Makes Poetry

Every Thursday of the month,

With anticipation and wonder, we open our Creative Playground. April was Poetry Month

Who will show up? How will they show up? How are we, Marian and Aurelie?

Beautiful to collaborate, play, design together,

The World Needs Social Therapy!
The World Needs Social Therapy!

Thank you David Brooks for your recent thoughtful commentary titled Hey America, Grow Up. We appreciate your invitation to build a new culture that supports maturity, community, empowerment and well-being. We have good news for you! There is an approach that addresses your call for an other-centered ethos; Social Therapy.

Meet Nippy Bottoms.
Meet Nippy Bottoms.

Written and performed by Marian Rich, directed and edited by Aurelie Harp, Nippy Bottoms is a clown with beautiful, tender, and righteous anger. And a twinkle of hope.

“People shut down when they feel triggered… and they remove themselves from the relationship. What I’m always interested in is relationality. Could you do something so radical as to move closer in a moment of feeling triggered? Is that even remotely possible?”

— Marian Rich on the Playgrounding podcast