The quirky duo of Agnotti & natty have been swapping stories and clowning around with one another since 2016 as leaders of an immersive 2-week InterPlay Art & Social Change Program in Oakland, California. They are now part of a wider collective of queer, social justice, international InterPlay leaders who formed the Playful Resilience Collective - offering InterPlay workshops and retreats ripe and ready to dance with the beauty and complexity of being human during these times!

Natalie Abdou - Natty (she/they) I am a community facilitator, artist, earth-tender and life-long learner who loves to reflect, share and learn alongside others for the purpose of community healing and change. I have spent the last 15+ years collaborating with diverse communities in North America and Egypt, co-creating learning environments that embrace a vision of solidarity, social justice and change from the inside-out. Through the blending of participatory, creative and value-based learning, I support processes of conflict transformation, building communities of belonging and collaborative leadership. I experience embodied and arts-based practices as portals for our body-wisdom to emerge, in service of personal, collective and systemic transformation. My spiritual and creative journey weaves themes of ancestral-earth based wisdom and healing in service of paradigm shifting visions.

I am freelance consultant as Weaving Connections (Toronto, Nova Scotia & Egypt) and collaborate with Bloom Consulting (Toronto), Branch Out Theatre (Toronto), Interplay (Oakland, CA) and various movements/organizations working toward justice in Egypt. I have a MEd in Adult Education and Community Development at OISE.

I give thanks to the various lands and first peoples that are a part of my lineage, growth, sustenance and being – Mississaugas of the Credit, Anishnabeg, Haudenosaunee and Huran Wendat (Toronto), Mi’kmaq (Nova Scotia), Ohlone (California) & Nubian (Egypt/Kemet).

Agnotti (they/she) grew up in Chicago and is passionate about the intersection of social justice, community dialogue, and performing arts. They facilitate workshops employing a variety of pedagogical techniques such as InterPlay, Theatre of the Oppressed, Clowning and Devising. Since 2013, they have been hired by InterPlay to produce and facilitate events around the world as well as becoming their Development Director in 2020. After several years of working for Opera-Matic as a performer, they stepped into the role of Co-Director in 2021. They are also freelancing for a number of theatre companies and schools, as a teaching artist, performer, and facilitator offering workshops in drama, puppetry, clowning, storytelling, musical theater, and movement. Recently, she has taken her work around the globe, facilitating workshops in Vietnam, India, Chile, Australia, Canada, Indonesia, and Germany.