Atlanta InterPlay Leaders

in the METRO-Atlanta Area

Decatur
Jennifer Denning is the co-founder of InterPlay Atlanta. She launched InterPlay Atlanta’s offerings with women in prison and teaches weekly at The Atlanta Pretrial Detention Center. 

She also regularly leads InterPlay at Trinity House and The Friendship Center. She is an InterPlay Life Practice Program leader and directs Atlanta’s InterPlay performance group, Soulprint Players.


In addition to leading InterPlay, Jennifer is a teaching artist with Playmaking for Girls (PFG). PFG empowers girls who are living in group homes and girls who are refugees through the medium of play-writing, theatre games, and performance. For ten years she worked with The Academy Theatre as an actor, director and facilitator. Her work with The Academy focused on play creation, creating community in the classroom and training teachers in theatre techniques to incorporate into their teaching curriculum.  Jennifer has a BFA in acting from Ohio University and worked professionally as an actor and improviser for many years. She is also an ordained New Church minister who has long been passionate about the intersection of creativity and spirituality.



Ruth Schowalter  (M.S. Applied Linguistics and ESL) and certified InterPlay leader, is a master teacher of American English as a Second Language, with 20 years of teaching at Georgia Tech University.  

Ruth discovered InterPlay in 2013 while creating and teaching an improvisation ESL course. She immediately integrated InterPlay’s improvisational system to help students experience authentic body movement and enlivened forms of expression, supporting both their ease and joy in acquiring language and cultural fluency. 

Now self-employed, Ruth offers a variety of American English Fluency workshops, short classes, and tutorials on college campuses, online, and in person, all of which have InterPlay components. Ruth also offers “Deep Play” in both her 8-week InterPlay Alchemy classes and Art and Soul Creativity Coaching. As a visual artist for almost three decades, she enjoys facilitating meaningful play related to the arts and embodying the creative magic of the soul. In her Interplay classes and coaching, she guides clients to integrate body, intellect, emotions, and spirit, enabling the finding, experiencing, and expressing their creative voices. Ruth enjoys living in the tightknit artistic community of Decatur, Georgia, with her scientist husband (Anthony “Tony” Martin), who both share time and space with two lively and loving cats, Tao and Sapelo. You can follow her on Twitter (@CreativeMind) or Instagram

 Norcross
Christine Nichols Gautreaux as a certified InterPlay leader and Licensed Master Social Worker, Christine uses InterPlay in a variety of settings and workshops with her peers and clients. 

She enjoys taking InterPlay and performance into underserved communities. She has worked with women in Lee Arrendale State Prison and the pre-trial detention center in Atlanta, GA. Christine also uses InterPlay with her Life Coaching Clients and in her workshops with foster/adoptive families. Dedicated to the pursuit of play, joy, laughter and love, Christine enjoys InterPlay, yoga, blogging, DCP, triathlons, family & friends and tea. Her superpowers include connecting people, helping folks manifest their dreams and juggling a full delightful life. 

Atlanta
Carolyn Renée is a certified InterPlay Leader, a healer, teaching artist, and community organizer.  

Her passion is advancing healing using creativity. As an artist she is an accomplished playwright, storyteller, and singer/songwriter.  She works as a teaching artist with Synchronicity Performance Group's Playmaking for Girls (PFG). Through this program she serves on a teaching team with fellow actors who lead young women from foster care, refugee communities, and youth detention centers in creating their own stories, and turning them into theatrical performances. In the healing arts she is third degree Reiki master and certified Natural Health and Wellness Consultant.  Carolyn Renée loves to create art-infused projects that incorporate the healing arts and help create positive change.  Excited to add InterPlay to her toolbox, she is most thrilled to be an InterPlay Leader in Training, and serve in a support role for InterPlay Atlanta’s 2017 Life Practice Program as a Life Practice Assistant. 


Foluke Beveridge is an InterPlay Leader-in-Training, a nonprofit marketer, arts education enthusiast, and dancer at heart.


Currently, she is the Marketing & Communications Coordinator, and a Teaching Artist at Moving in the Spirit.  Born and raised in Newport News, Virginia, Foluke has spent a lifetime in the arts. In 2011, she earned a B.A. in communication studies with a minor in dance from Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia. After working in education and retail, she decided that her path in life must involve finding ways to support both the arts, social justice, and young people. With that in mind, she enrolled in the Master’s program in arts administration at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, Georgia and completed her degree in the summer of 2015. She has worked with the Atlanta Black Theater Festival, ArtsNow, Spellcast Entertainment, SCADShow Theater; is a graduate of C4 Atlanta's Hatch Program and General Assembly's Digital Marketing Program; and, is an InterPlay Leader-in-Training.


Ade Anifowose is an InterPlay Leader-in-Training. Visionary. Channel. Intuitive Healer. Transformational Agent. Life Coach. Artist.
For over 20 years, Ade has devoted his life to being both a student and teacher of ancient wisdom.  He is known for his optimism and ability to put people at ease while tapping into the inner wisdom of the soul. His unique approach opens the minds of his clients so they can more easily and effectively approach life head on and find the help and answers they seek.
The philosophy of self-empowerment is the thread that runs through all of Ade’s talks, workshops, healing sessions, and spiritual gatherings. He offers practical guidance to assist his clients in removing blocks and shifting their perspective, opening the way to new opportunities and possibilities.
 Ade is a lover of humanity who is passionate about creating outstanding new and unique gifts of healing for the world. Grounded in universal principles and healing arts, he uses his radio show, interactive playshop, storytelling, the arts, social media, and sacred drumming, to supports people in shifting their consciousness. Ade has a deep passion for helping people to connect with their unique sense of self and is dedicated to inspiring people to live from the confidence of their truest self. His website: http://www.LifeCoachAde.com

Debra Weir, who co-founded InterPlay Atlanta with Jennifer Denning, is a spiritual director, teacher, and dancer. She has been engaged with InterPlay for more than 25 years and is a founding member of Wing It!, Performance Ensemble and Interplay along with Phil Porter and Cynthia Winton-Henry. In 1994, Debra moved from the San Francisco Bay area to live and work in Asia for more than ten years before relocating Atlanta in 2007. She and Jennifer Denning collaborated to start InterPlay Atlanta. Thesed days Debra now shares InterPlay through her work as Associate Director of Spirituality and Lifelong Learning at Columbia Theological Seminary, spiritual direction and supervision of spiritual directors.

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