About: Team

Team

Malcolm Hamilton

Malcolm loves working to a brief, finding clever, playful ways to engage people in a project. Malcolm has developed his practice through years of making outdoor theatre, play interventions and community engagement. He was a Leverhulme Arts Scholar attached to Bristol Old Vic in 2017 and has studied a wide breadth of play theory and is constantly experimenting with play interventions for adults and children. He is a certifiedLEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator and is particularly interested in using this method in housing consultations. He is driven by finding clever, playful mechanisms to connect people to ideas and each other. His main play are is his allotment, though he has recently taken up fishkeeping. He loves exploring, playing board games badly and delving into local histories.

Anna Haydock Wilson

After a few years of working with Play:Disrupt as a creative facilitator, Anna joins the team as Creative Producer. She leads project delivery with clients, devising playful methods which draw out thoughtful responses, and ensuring successful events and workshops. With a track record of delivering ambitious projects with diverse communities across London and the South West for over 30 years, she draws on her leadership, fine art and filmmaking skills to design fun and impactful ways for people to participate in their environments and to amplify their voices. Professor Rachel Sara, Birmingham School of Architecture and Design says of Anna, “Collaboration, creativity, and community engagement with great energy and sensitivity are at the centre of everything that Anna does. She has a wonderful way of finding the magical in the marginalised.”

Jenny Male

Jenny manages the nuts and bolts of the company, helping to put the ideas into action. With a background in visual arts, Jenny has extensive experience in both the commercial and non-profit sectors. She works closely with our clients to ensure more people and communities are included in civic decision making. She builds connections between artists, creatives and communities, working to challenge perspectives. Jenny also ensures rigour in reporting and feedback to support clients to make impactful decisions. As a new mum, she's really enjoying exploring the world afresh, with awe in all the small things around us.

Nia Evans

Nia has joined the team to lead on operational management and community engagement. She brings combined experience in public events, projects, partnerships and participatory arts practices to our interdisciplinary approach. Nia is building on Play:Disrupt‘s established methods to grow our relationships with community and organisation partners to activate wide representation and impactful, transparent engagement. She also ensures that the qualitative and quantitative data we collect during our work is properly stored, analysed and compiled into accessible, evidence-based reports.

Associates & Collaborators

Kerry Russell

Designer

in bristol studios

Kerry is Director of In Bristol Studios, and Chair of Phoenix 52 & Studio Meraki.

She is passionate about delivering artistic experiences that support communities to find the ‘spark’ that gets them engaged, creatively producing events, parades and site specific installations that always have local stakeholders at the heart.

Dr Lynn Love

Digital Game Designer

Abertay university

Lynn Love is a designer and lecturer in Computer Arts at Abertay University.

When not teaching, Lynn researches social play and as a member of Abertay Game Lab creates interactive games and installations that aim to bring people together through play.

She almost always has chalk in her pocket, just in case, and is a little obsessed with projectors.

M Blaydes

Freelance Producer and Facilitator

M is a freelance producer and facilitator based in Bristol.

She has worked with Play:Disrupt across a range of different projects including Harbour Hopes, Bristol High Streets’ regeneration and Castle Park’s redevelopment. In 2025 she led the production of a series of events with young people and schools about active travel, commissioned by Bristol City Council.

M brings insightful observations and the ability to connect with a diverse range of people having grown up speaking multiple languages and immersed in different cultures.

Her background spans logistical management of international trade finance conferences and black tie awards dinners in London, producing theatre tours in the South West and managing outreach and community engagement in Bristol for charities and CICs.

She served on the Board of Trustees for Many Minds for five years, and has since transitioned into the world of tech learning machine learning programming with an emphasis on AI Ethics.

Thomas Sale

Urban Designer

Tom’s dedicated to working collaboratively with people to improve their built environment, with an ability to build strong relationships with communities, stakeholders and uphold inclusive principles. His projects span both UK based public play spaces and street space designs to international placemaking projects in Yangon, Myanmar. The Myanmar based Alley Garden projects he delivered whilst working at the participatory practice Doh Eain was selected as a featured project in the City At Eye Level Asia book by STIPO in 2019.

His multi-disciplinary approach aligns with the fields of participatory design, inclusive placemaking and livability. With a particular interest in the neighbourhood scale, active travel and community-led processes. He believes that engaging and co-designing with the public can be playful, fun, inclusive and meaningful.

Amy Rose

Artist

Co-Founder Playing out

Amy is a socially engaged artist with specialisms in play, participation and performance. Her work draws on a toolkit from popular theatre forms (clown, improvisation, puppetry, street theatre, storytelling etc) alongside research, collaboration and facilitation skills to co-create innovative, social and civic solutions.

She is co-founder of Playing Out, a national support organisation and movement to restore playable streets and neighbourhoods.