Orlee Tatarka
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Wieden+Kennedy
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Head of Productions & JOINT
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Tuesday 6 October 15:15
16:00
Orlee Tatarka is the Head of Production at Wieden+Kennedy Portland, where she leads the office’s multidisciplinary production capabilities and has made work for clients such as Nike, YETI, Netflix, Old Spice, and Allstate, among others. As both a producer and a leader, she combines unique vision with grace under pressure and is happiest when she is solving problems.
Orlee was previously the director of integrated production and a senior partner at Carmichael Lynch where she led work that ranged from multi-million dollar brand campaigns to smaller-budget campaigns focused on multiple pieces of versatile content and, increasingly, things that have never been made before.
Orlee is a boomerang employee at Wieden+Kennedy, having spent 9 years at W+K New York before moving to Carmichael. During her time at W+K New York, Orlee produced iconic work for brands including Ford, Jordan Brand, Bud Light, Sprite, ESPN, Spotify and Southern Comfort.
2026 Speakersspeaking at
Netflix’s Discover Your Future, directed by Show Yanagisawa, brought together multiple iconic worlds, each with its own creative and technical challenges. For the team behind the film, the question was never simply practical or VFX, but what should be real, what should be created digitally — and how the two could work together to make the impossible feel seamless.
Joined by Orlee Tatarka (Wieden+Kennedy), Executive Producer Suzanne Hargrove (PRETTYBIRD), Production Designer Dan Betteridge and Creative Director Ryan Knowles (Electric Theatre Collective) this session unpacks some of the film’s biggest challenges and the decisions behind them.