Playmaking at the Intersection Creativity & Wellness

Carolyn Renée is also a multidisciplinary teaching artist devoted to sharing creative skills through community-based artist residency work. Her artistic voice has been shaped through studies and mentorships with accomplished writers, storytellers, musicians, and actors, leading her to create original work as a singer, songwriter, actress, and playwright.

She wrote, produced, and performed her one-woman play Womb Creations: Journey to Love, Catalyst for Change, and has performed as a Living Your Art Artist since 2006. Carolyn Renée has shared the stage with renowned poets Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez, and has served as a teaching artist with Synchronicity Performance Group’s Playmaking for Girls, working with girls in detention centers, foster care, and refugee programs.

For over a decade, alongside Jennifer Denning, Carolyn Renée has co-directed the Atlanta-based improv company Soul Print Players. Today, she collaborates with artists and healers globally, offering creative workshops and residencies rooted in reciprocity, cultural exchange, and collective storytelling. In 2025, she participated in an immersive cultural exchange in Udaipur, India, and will return in 2026 for continued residency work. Carolyn Renée is available to work with you and your community to create healing and art-based residencies. 

InterPlay

What is InterPlay? 

InterPlay is an active, creative way to unlock the wisdom of the body; it is also the creative system Carolyn Renée uses in her work as a wellness practitioner. 

In her own words, “As a former HR professional, providing resources like grief counseling to employees was just part of my job. After a devasting loss of a key tenured worker, I set up grief counseling for dozens of employees and had not handled my own grief in the process. The next day I was invited to an InterPlay session and ironically the group was playing with the theme of Day of the Dead (DOD), as it was November when DOD is traditionally observed. Using one of the InterPlay forms Dances on Behalf Of (DOBO), I got what I needed to address my grief and I also understood the power of InterPlay! Since then I have created InterPlay workshops and series for those experiencing homelessness, for youth and elders, in my wellness practice and workshops to purely play.