Bios

Bob Dahl
Creative Consultant/Executive Producer
Theme Park, Themed Entertainment, Event Marketing, Special Events, Entertainment

With more than 20 years experience, Bob’s background includes theme park development, event and presence marketing, museums, exhibit development, interactive experiences, strategic partnering, themed entertainment, corporate theatre, special events, and national tour management of large-scale consumer events, productions, and extravaganzas. Bob takes pleasure in shaping and managing the creative strategies that support the design and deployment of themed entertainment with good marketing solutions for themed entertainment and Fortune 500 companies.

After receiving his master’s degree in New York City, Bob joined Children’s Television Workshop as Director of Operations for the "Sesame Street", and "The Electric Company" television series. As the executive in charge, he was accountable for all budgets, production-related contracts, schedules, production personnel, and cost accounting for the shows' multi-million dollar budgets.

Bob later joined Imero Fiorentino Associates in New York and then Hollywood as Vice President of Production for shows and events. While with IFA, he developed production credentials with such artists as Barbra Streisand, Lou Rawls and Neil Diamond and toured with Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. He served as production consultant on half-time shows for the Super Bowl and Orange Bowl, the Democratic National Convention and has produced major events for such companies as Anheuser-Busch, Cartier, General Motors, Honda Automobiles, HBO, IBM, Panasonic, MTV, and Sony.

Bob was invited to work with Walt Disney Imagineering as Director of Creative Development and Senior Show Producer where he oversaw the design and implementation of dozens of Disney projects for Euro Disney, Walt Disney World and Disneyland theme park resorts. As executive in charge of Epcot, Bob interfaced on a daily basis with such Disney strategic alliance partners as AT&T, Bell Labs, Compaq, Oracle, Exxon, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Nestle, Kodak and MetLife in order to provide optimum, positive guest exposure within their sponsored venues. (view some of the Disney attractions)

After more than a decade with Disney, Bob became an independent producer and creative consultant where he continues to develop, produce and manage shows throughout the world … in ballparks, convention centers, arenas, hotel ballrooms, and even the middle of a desert. Some of his major highlights include projects for the Singapore Tourism Board, Legoland Germany, MythFaire Theme Park, Nissan Motor Corporation, "Star Trek - The Experience", MasterCard, Mercedes-Benz, Apple Computer, Nabisco, and M&M Mars. He was the Executive in Charge of Production for the national arena tour of "The Wizard of Oz" and produced the Pope John Paul II event at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.



Susan J. Lustig
Producer/Writer/Designer
Theme Park, Themed Entertainment, Website Design, Special Events, Entertainment

With a M.F.A. in theatre design from New York University, Susan Lustig has produced and designed numerous experiences, shows and attractions for theme parks, museums, exhibits, corporate theatre, special events, television, websites, and concerts for such clients as Universal Studios, Disney, PBS, Showtime, HBO, American Honda, Suzuki, Cartier, Xerox, IBM, and The Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas.

For more than a decade Susan created shows and attractions for the theme park and themed entertainment industry. While at Universal Studios, she created and produced a variety of successful theme park shows and attractions for both Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood. Among them were "Alfred Hitchcock, The Art of Making Movies," "Murder She Wrote, Post Production," "Animal Actor’s Stage," "Backdraft," "Beetlejuice Graveyard Review" and the "Jaws" preshow. (view some of the Universal Attractions)

While at Walt Disney Imagineering, Susan help guide the creative development of both the Grizzly River Raft Ride and "Disney Animation" attraction for Disney’s California Adventure. "Disney Animation" was the recipient of the Themed Entertainment Award (THEA) for Best New Attraction of 2002. (view the Disney Animation Attraction)

Her creative strengths have few boundaries in what she refers to as the "large canvas" … the world of theme parks, themed entertainment, museums, concerts, immersive, interactive and experiential experiences. She is equally and creatively adaptable with the "small canvas" … interactive media, graphics and website design.