Ilya Stavitsky

Creative Producer & Experience Builder

I bridge the gap between complex physical spaces, interactive software, and narrative storytelling. From managing multi-million dollar immersive museum installations to engineering custom software prototypes and producing indie games, I design and ship human experiences from the ground up.

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GRAND EGYPTIAN MUSEUM

GRAND EGYPTIAN MUSEUM

The Narrative Challenge

Delivering a suite of landmark media installations for one of the world's largest and most ambitious museum projects required translating dense, ancient history into high-impact contemporary experiences. The core challenge lay in spearheading concurrent creative workflows across a complex, multi-partner international ecosystem while strictly adhering to rigorous museum curation standards adjacent to the Giza Pyramids.

The Experience Strategy

We engineered a unified spatial storytelling strategy that balances large-scale technical infrastructure with deep educational immersion. By coordinating cross-functional teams spanning 3D surface projection mapping, cinematic 2D/3D animation, spatial audio design, and physical architecture, we integrated dynamic digital environments seamlessly into the physical fabric of the exhibition galleries.

Production Engineering

Drove global production planning, scheduling, and risk management to maintain strict delivery timelines across multiple cross-functional workstreams. Established clear communication protocols between subject matter experts, design agencies, and hardware integration teams, proactively resolving technical dependencies to ensure stable, synchronized playbacks across complex, multi-component media systems.

TypeMuseum ExhibitTeam20+Year2025DisciplineProject Management
RED BAY HERITAGE SITE

RED BAY HERITAGE SITE

The Narrative Challenge

The Red Bay UNESCO World Heritage Site needed to preserve and animate a 16th-century Basque whaling saga from archival research into a vibrant, accessible human story. The existing physical exhibition space required a complete digital transformation to deeply engage modern museum visitors and bridge the gap between complex maritime history and emotional, interactive storytelling.

The Experience Strategy

We designed a multi-dimensional visitor journey that translates complex archival data into intuitive, immersive physical environments. By balancing narrative-driven 2D animation with a massive 65" interactive touch map installation, we created a felt human connection to a lost maritime era, ensuring the historical material resonated across diverse visitor demographics.

Production Engineering

Led the end-to-end production pipeline, managing a diverse cross-functional team of content researchers, curators, animators, and software developers. Directed the creative execution of the custom full-stack touch interface, oversaw strict QA testing for hardware-software integration, and engineered real-time multi-display synchronizations to guarantee high-performance stability within a public exhibition ecosystem.

TypeMuseum ExhibitionTeam10+Year2025DisciplineProject Management & Operations
Mohawk Institute Historic Site

Mohawk Institute Historic Site

The Narrative Challenge

Spearheading the media production for a nationally significant historic site focused on truth and reconciliation required a deeply sensitive, narrative-first production strategy. The core challenge lay in translating traumatic, complex historical archives and personal testimonies into accessible, human-centric educational formats—ensuring absolute historical accuracy, emotional safety, and profound community respect while engineering heavy physical and digital hardware footprints.

The Experience Strategy

We engineered a multi-tiered spatial learning ecosystem that balances cinematic documentary storytelling with interactive historical discovery. By coupling intimate, interview-based films and immersive video environments with a bespoke 65" touchscreen language-learning installation, we created a seamless tactile framework designed to deeply engage modern student demographics and preserve sensitive cultural knowledge through user-centered UX design.

Production Engineering

Orchestrated cross-functional collaboration across multi-disciplinary creative studios, full-stack software developers, institutional curators, and indigenous community stakeholders. Directed the production pipelines for video editing, interface engineering, and complex hardware-software integration within a live academic space, delivering a bulletproof, high-traffic system that functions perfectly under rigorous daily educational use.

TypeMuseum ExhibitionsTeam5+Year2025DisciplineProject Management & Operations

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TINY COLONY

TINY COLONY

The Narrative Challenge

Coordinating an ambitious Web3 gaming ecosystem under tight development milestones required rebuilding the studio's operational infrastructure from scratch. The primary challenge lay in managing a distributed, multi-national team of over 20 artists, developers, and designers, while aligning complex smart-contract milestones with continuous high-fidelity game art and live-ops content delivery.

The Experience Strategy

We structured a scalable production architecture that bridged the gap between creative execution and technical engineering. By establishing unified communication loops and clear pipeline tracking across animation, web dev, and game mechanics, we maintained strict brand alignment across both the core pixel-art game MVP and its supporting digital collectibles marketplace.

Production Engineering

Led the end-to-end production operations, introducing custom asset-tracking frameworks that eliminated cross-team engineering bottlenecks and increased sprint efficiency. Orchestrated the concurrent launch pipelines for limited-edition character drops, managed cross-functional dependencies between smart contract deployment and frontend UI, and instituted robust QA cycles to ensure smooth, real-time product updates.

TypeVideo GameTeam20+Year2023DisciplineProject Managment & Operations
SOFAR SOUNDS VANCOUVER

SOFAR SOUNDS VANCOUVER

The Narrative Challenge

The launch of Sofar Sounds in Vancouver required establishing a pop-up live music ecosystem within a notoriously strict municipal and compliance landscape. The operational and creative challenge was to consistently transform raw, un-vetted architectural environments—ranging from hidden Gastown lofts to active commercial woodshops—into acoustically viable, emotionally intimate performance hubs within a compressed two-hour window, requiring a launch team that could seamlessly bridge spatial logistics with high-end, zero-footprint media documentation.

The Experience Strategy

We created an adaptive, hyper-intimate spectator journey that completely dismantled the traditional physical boundaries of a live concert. We weaponized the architectural constraints of everyday spaces to command deep, undivided collective attention and turn temporary rooms into premium cultural sanctuaries.

Production Engineering

Served as a photographer, videographer, and editor for the early Vancouver chapters, utilizing a silent, low-profile capture workflow. Directed the post-production pipeline, editing raw footage into rhythmically precise, atmospheric narrative video recaps that set the visual benchmark for the chapter's global digital channels.

TypeLive Music EventTeam6+Year2014-2016DisciplineVideography, Photography, Event Organization

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My work doesn't fit into a single box because human experiences don't either. From custom interactive systems for museums to intimate, underground live music sessions, I specialize in integrating technical and creative disciplines. Everything I build is about connecting people to a moment. Explore the node cloud at the top of the page to see how my skillsets intersect, or reach out to start something new.