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 production studio dedicated to cultural preservation and new media education. 

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 also teaches Interactive Narrative in the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Integrated Design & Media Program. Her interactive credits include: Ndaki-ña XR (2025), INYFW (2025), SEEDS (2023 - 2025), Women of Mystery (2022), Uppercut Training Club (2022), Beta The Game (2015 - 2017), Lyka’s Adventure (2016 - 2019), You are Here: Stories that Connect & Transport (2017), Gamestar Mechanic Jr. (2015), Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) (2014), Connected Messages (2013). Her published research can be found in the ACM Digital Library.