Stephen Shelley

Create and produce immersive, site-specific, participatory live experiences that blend story, physical environment, audience movement, guest journey, and operational execution. Lead end-to-end production across concept development, venue sourcing, budgeting, scheduling, staffing, vendor coordination, production planning, and live day-of execution. Build operational systems and workflows including timelines, milestone tracking, run-of-show structures, asset coordination, team communications, and day-of execution plans. Translate creative intent into executable audience experiences by aligning story, logistics, technical needs, and stakeholder priorities. Produce location-based adventures, immersive theatrical environments, private commissions, and public-facing experiential activations, including ongoing projects such as Portal and The Signal with multi-stage physical-to-digital elements.

Founded and produced a multi-site performing arts festival designed to elevate emerging theater, dance, music, and interdisciplinary artists across Brooklyn. Managed festival-wide program delivery across 25 unique venues with 40+ artists and 100 productions over five annual festivals. Built and managed partnerships with organizations such as Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, Atlas Obscura, Green-Wood Cemetery, Weeksville Heritage Center, Industry City, and Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. Led program management across creative development, production logistics, venue coordination, artist relations, staffing, scheduling, audience operations, marketing coordination, and day-of execution—creating the operational infrastructure to support simultaneous events across institutional and site-specific public spaces.

Supported senior consultants and executive search operations by managing high-level client communications, scheduling, research coordination, travel logistics, and operational workflows across concurrent search engagements. Coordinated cross-functional teams and maintained organization in deadline-driven engagements, handling executive-facing deliverables and presentation materials with discretion appropriate to board-level and C-suite recruitment processes.