Kelly Bartnik

KELLY BARTNIK is an industry leader in Immersive Theater with an extensive ability to produce, write, choreograph, direct , perform and run large scale Immersive Experiences. She is a NY-based choreographer, performer, director, teacher and producer and was an original cast member of both the Boston and NY productions of Sleep No More.  She has performed in the Immersive experiences Waking La Llorona and Portaleza, by Optika Moderna and The Unbrunch, created by Cinereal Productions.  She also was Movement Director for Optika Moderna’s project, Las Quinceañeras.  Kelly has also had the pleasure of performing with Witness Relocation, Cora Dance, Melissa Briggs Dance, South Brooklyn Shakespeare, Woodshed Collective, Switch N Play, The Pack Theater, Cakeface and Shelter Theatre Group among others.  She was the recipient of an evening-length commission by Gibney Dance for the premiere of her last major stage work  - Fuck / Love: The Poetics of Adoration.  She has taught at Colby College, Queens College, NYU's Playwright’s Horizons Theater School, Emory University, Spelman College and has conducted Immersive performance training at Meow Wolf, Santa Fe.  She has directed and choreographed Immersive experiences for Amazon, Tentr, Twitch, and AMC and created choreography for Clubbed Thumb plays including Plano and Titans.  Kelly was recently the Director of the first large-scale Immersive experience called Hotel Wonderland in Amsterdam. She is currently the Producer of the inaugural immersive production by Artemis is Burning called The Death of Rasputin.

Additional work can be found at www.hereny.com and www.comboplatterproductions.com and www.deathofrasputin.com

IG: @kelly.d.bartnik