Play Steinberg
Play Steinberg (they/them) is a mapmaker and meaning-maker, drawing connections, queering boundaries and transcending limits wherever they go. With a passion for transformation and making the invisible visible, Play supports partners and clients in unlocking their potential, fostering inner and outer alignment, and realizing their highest purpose. As a visual facilitator and scribe, Play has worked across all sectors and subject matters. As a creative facilitator and coach, Play serves the highest in every client, especially when they don’t yet see it themselves.
Alex Salsberg
Alex Salsberg is an independent animation director who loves telling stories through funny, weird and heartfelt cartoons. Alex has directed videos for Billy Ray Cyrus and Utkarsh Ambudkar, and has worked on projects for MTV, Nickelodeon and WGBH. He is also co-writer and director of the award-winning comedy short “Class of 84,” about a Jewish family facing anxiety and mortality, and host of “I Loved This Conversation,” a podcast about people living creative lives.
Jeremy Shuback
Jeremy Shuback is a video journalist whose work appears on channels ranging from the Wall Street Journal to Johnny Harris. As a writer, editor, and director, he’s helped create hundreds of videos, many with millions of views. Somewhere along the way he got obsessed with history, and now spends his free time making YouTube videos about esoteric minutiae from hundreds of years ago.
Miriam Anzovin
Miriam Anzovin is a visual artist, writer, content creator, and massive Jewish nerd, exploring the juxtaposition of pop culture, nerd culture, and Jewish culture.
Her comedic, yet heartfelt, short-form videos on Jewish text learning, particularly of the Talmud in the Daf Reactions Project, include her authentic reactions from her perspective of a formerly Orthodox, now secular, Millennial feminist. She exists at the intersection of Sefaria and Sephora, and also in some people’s minds, where she lives rent free.
Frieda Vizel
Frieda Vizel grew up in the Satmar Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel. Although she left the fold in her twenties, she continues to connect with the Orthodox Jewish community through her work as a Brooklyn tour guide and Youtuber. Her lively Youtube channel explores Hasidic life through interviews, street visits, analysis, food, holidays, and more.
Alan Niku
Alan Niku is a writer and MFA filmmaker from the only Persian-Kurdish-Assyrian-Jewish family in San Luis Obispo, California. He has written and directed comedic shorts, music videos, mockumentaries, and a Bollywood-style action flick shot in the back-alleys of LA. His dozen feature and TV pilot scripts are, in the words of his grandmother, “get that computer out of my face, weirdo.”
Natacha Ruck
Natacha is a multi-lingual storyteller, media producer and educator. She strives to use narrative to deepen our understanding of the world and foster a sense of community. Her documentary work has appeared at the MoMA, the Jewish Museum New York, and on NPR. She’s served as the Managing Editor of the Duolingo French podcast, and Senior Producer of the Stanford Storytelling Project. Natacha teaches at the University of San Francisco and explores how we define our identities on stage as the writer/performer of two solo shows: “You’re good for nothing… I’ll milk the cow myself” and “Confessions of a French Interpreter.”