ILANA MARKS

ilana is an award-winning content and story developer with a decade of experience. Her work has appeared on stage and screen, and in theme parks; has been published on SB Nation, PLSN, and other major venues; and has, on at least one occasion, reunited an estranged brother and sister (this is true).

She has worked as the Creative Producer at BARTKRESA studio for over 5 years.

Selected Credits

Pictures from Favorite Projects

Feature films Space Station 76 (Associate Producer, Rival Pictures) and Possession (Production Designer)

The Jim Henson Creature Shop (Fabricator, Pajanimals Live, Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Ball)

The Night at the Museum—Midnight Mayhem attraction for 20th Century Fox World (pre-concept development, RGH Themed Entertainment)

Bob Baker Marionette Theater’s The Nutcracker, at Pasadena Playhouse (Set Design)

ilana holds an MFA in Theatrical Design from The University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in Art & Design and a BS in Textile Technology from North Carolina State University.

KEVIN BELTZ

Kevin is the Technical & Special Projects Director at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, America's longest-running puppet theater. He has a diverse background in design, fabrication, and special effects.

Pictures from Favorite Projects & Selected Credits: 

During his 5 years of working as a specialty prop builder at Studio Art and Technology, Kevin used skills in puppetry, animatronics, and miniatures to produce objects for some of TV and film's largest spectacles, such as:

Blade Runner 2049, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, The Muppets, Agents of Shield, The Orville, AntMan, Spiderman: Homecoming, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Jurassic World, Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey, Tomorrowland, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
(unfortunately, due to NDA’s, he cannot show any pictures of that work.)

Kevin was on the team that shot the previous Guinness World Record-holding largest fireworks show in Dubai.

Kevin holds an MFA in Set Design from The University of Texas at Austin, and a BFA in Technical Theatre from Wayne State University in Detroit.