Barrie Adleberg
Founder & Creative Director
Barrie is an interactive producer, game maker, and educator. She has special skill in curriculum development, game-based learning, and narrative design. Barrie has produced video games, makerspaces, youth coding competitions, hackathons, national design challenges, podcasts, mixed-reality interactive installation series, and blockchain art collections. She has worked with brands and organizations across culture and the arts including PBS Kids, Activision Blizzard, HBO Max, and the Smithsonian Institution. In 2018, she founded Split Ends Media with a commitment to sustainable impact design.
Barrie is a teaching artist at the DreamYard Project and a program designer with Columbia University, School of the Arts, Digital Storytelling Lab. She teaches Interactive Narrative in the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Integrated Design & Media Program. Her research contributions in games and learning are published in the ACM Digital Library and Kidscreen Magazine.
Amber Jaunai
Producer
Amber is an actor and producer. She has overseen scripted podcast projects for clients like AMC and Audible. Amber also serves as a Social Media Analyst for Red Bull Studios where she curates an online presence that reflects ongoing productions, specifically in feature documentaries and premium series.
As a project manager, Amber organizes event logistics, talent, and press at high-profile events like Essence Black Women in Hollywood and the NAACP awards. As a podcast producer and editor, she brings her creative director and marketing acumen to unscripted series. Amber is a Voiceover artist lending her voice to networks such as Netflix, ESPN, Nickelodeon among other networks from her home studio. Amber supported the Queens Gaming Collective Launch production.
Samantha Figueira
Art Director
Samantha Figueira is an east coast based Production Designer, Art Director and Art Coordinator for film & television. Her work includes the EMMY nominated The Drew Barrymore Show, and the GLADD and MTV Award winning HBO's LEGENDARY.
Before working in television & film, Samantha was the Associate Prop Master for the off-Broadway powerhouse production of Sleep No More for 5 years. She then went on to co create, design and produce a multi-media, interactive art exhibition titled You Are Here with Split Ends Media + JDC Entwine that toured DC, LA, San Fransisco, and NYC December 2017.
Samantha also helps to educate young designers with the celebrated company, Moonlit Wings Productions. She has been the technical director and a creative consultant for MWP for 10+ years, which has workshopped & produced over 55 world-premiere stage productions for young artists.