Marian Rich

Performance Consultant

Marian Rich is a performance activist and comic educator. Trained as an actress and theatrical director, Marian has spent over 30 years designing and delivering playful social therapeutic workshops and programs. As a faculty member of the East Side Institute, her joyful and philosophical sessions have impacted activists, educators and scholars from around the world who are looking for ways to infuse their work with the power of performance. She is the co-author of “Playing Around with Changing the World,” a chapter about this work in The Applied Improvisation Mindset, Bloomsbury Press (2021).

Marian has brought the transformational power of play and the joy of improvisational creativity to hundreds of people across borders throughout the Covid pandemic. Her article about performance activism in 2020 - “A Year of Creating Heart in a Havenless World” - appears in POIESIS: A Journal of the Arts and Communication, Volume 18, 2021. She is a founding member of the Global Play Brigade.

  • Dr. Raquell Holmes

    FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

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  • Mia Anderson

    PERFORMANCE DIRECTOR

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  • Nicholas Gross

    COMMUNITY & STEAM LIAISON

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  • Carrie Sackett

    UIC CO-LEAD, FACILITATOR

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  • Makalia Benson

    UIC CO-LEAD

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  • Andy Anderson Jr.

    UIC CO-LEAD

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  • Jacqueline Hayward

    WRITER & EDITOR

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  • Nicole Brunson

    EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

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  • Martha McCoy

    DIRECTOR, EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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