Barrie Adleberg

Barrie is an interactive producer and educator with expertise in game-based learning and narrative game design. Barrie has produced video games, mixed-reality installations, XR experiences, youth hackathons, community makerspaces, and game design programs. She has worked with brands across culture and the arts including PBS Kids, Activision Blizzard, HBO Max, and the Smithsonian Institution. In 2018, Barrie founded Split Ends Media, a new media production studio dedicated to cultural preservation and impact design. 

With a background in children’s educational media research, Barrie has a playful approach to content development, curation, and teaching. Barrie completed graduate research in games and learning at Georgetown University (M.A.), where she studied Computer Science and Developmental Psychology. She received a postgraduate fellowship from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, supported by a National Science Foundation award, for early education in STEM. Since 2016, Barrie has been a member of the School of the Arts Digital Storytelling Lab where she supports the development of community prototypes and new Columbia courses in emerging media. 

Barrie teaches Interactive Narrative in the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Integrated Design & Media Program and is a teaching artist at the DreamYard Project in the Bronx, NY. Her interactive credits include: Connected Messages (2013), Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) (2014), Gamestar Mechanic Jr. (2015), Beta The Game (2015 - 2017), Lyka’s Adventure (2016 - 2019), You are Here: Stories that Connect & Transport (2017), Women of Mystery (2022), Uppercut Training Club (2022), SEEDS (2023). Her published research can be found in the ACM Digital Library.