From March 2007 until the show's cancellation in September 2009, Bartlett was a cast member on the CBS daytime soap opera Guiding Light, where he played Cyrus Foley. He also starred as Dominic "Dom" Basaluzzo in the HBO comedy-drama series, Looking from 2014 to 2015, and then reprised his role in the series finale television film, Looking: The Movie in 2016.