Amy Bradley Is Missing: Where is the cruise director Kirk Detweiler now? – Bundlezy

Amy Bradley Is Missing: Where is the cruise director Kirk Detweiler now?

After watching Netflix’s new true-crime documentary Amy Bradley Is Missing, everyone wants to know where Kirk Detweiler is now.

23-year-old Amy Bradley went missing on the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas in March 1998 while en route to Curaçao, and nobody knows what happened to her.

The cruise director features heavily in the three-part Netflix docuseries, narrating and recalling various parts of the story, but who actually is he and what is he doing now?

Who is Kirk Detweiler?

61-year-old Kirk was the cruise director working on the ship when Amy went missing. In the first episode, he explained that the cruise director is the “face of the ship” who makes sure all the guests are alright and “dances with the old ladies”.

“This particular cruise is March of 1998, and I remember that cruise very well. We were doing seven-day cruises out of San Juan, and we did Aruba, Curaçao, St. Maarten, St. Thomas,” he said.

Recalling the moment Amy went missing, the director added: “The hotel director kind of debriefed me, ‘Oh, this girl’s missing.’ But at the time, I still had to make the clearance announcement.”

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Where is the cruise director now?

After quitting life at sea, Kirk now works as the executive director of a cinema in Marion, Ohio called the Marion Palace Theatre. He told the Marion Star he’s in charge of “scheduling, maintenance, human resources”.

The 61-year-old was born in Marion and graduated from Kent State in 1984 with a degree in telecommunications and minors in theatre and dance. Kirk has been interested in theatre since he was a kid.

“I was always in the kids’ choir at church, but my interest in theatre was piqued when I was in eighth grade, watching my older sister in the musical ‘The Pajama Game’ at River Valley. The next year I couldn’t wait to audition for ‘Bye Bye Birdie,’ and got cast as a 10-year-old,” he said.

After college, he worked for a production company in Florida before getting his first job on a cruise ship as a singer and dancer.

He revealed: “I fell in love with the sea life and spent a total of 35 years working on cruise ships, the last 31 years as a cruise director, mostly with the Royal Caribbean Group.”

In 2019, Kirk was hired by a new cruise line out of Mumbai, India, as an entertainment director and worked there until the Covid pandemic, when the company went out of business.

After that, he has a job as an entertainment director at a land-based resort on the Caribbean island of St. Maarten, before going into the theatre job he has now.

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