Steven Barker

Teaching Artist, Professor, Theatre Designer, Arts Administrator, Instructional Designer

Welcome! If you are looking for your next instructional designer, project/production manager, or classroom instructor, you've come the right place.

Change Agent Leading by Learning & Listening

Passionate and experienced learning designer and classroom instructor with a commitment to equity and access in education, who takes pride in helping organizations and individuals maximize their impact to their constituents.


An administrative and logistical artist with a natural talent for technology, a passion for addressing the needs of diverse audiences, and an exceptional ability to facilitate and leverage multiple perspectives to gain clarity and progress.


Key strengths include:

• Knowledge –Producing and presenting quality products to customers for both education and enjoyment. Extensive exposure to all sides of education strategies, entertainment genres, and management processes; readily grasp trends and technologies that change the fields of both the workforce development and entertainment industries.

• Customer/Employee Relations – Innate ability to build an immediate rapport with employees, vendors, and customers that fosters enduring positive business relationships; skilled listener and mediator adept at resolving concerns and conflict towards win-win scenarios.

• Creative Initiatives – Skillful at building upon prior programming success and strategically innovating and implementing change, when needed, to keep up with trends; adept at partnering with other organizations for mutually beneficial outcomes.

• Organization – Capable of leading/collaborating with a team of 3 to a team of 120; able to plan, prepare, prioritize, and staff projects and programs to meet time-sensitive deadlines for organizational success.

  • What others are saying!