Stetson Executive Network Profile
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Jason Surrell
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Storyland Studios
Senior Creative Executive 
Area of Expertise
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Jason Surrell is an author, screenwriter and themed experience designer.
For seven years, Jason was a Senior Creative Director for Universal Creative, where he was responsible for the inception, creation, pitching, presenting and ongoing creative development of projects at the attraction, land, theme park and resort level. Major credits include the creative direction of the Universal Bejing Theme Park; Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon; unannounced projects at attraction, land, theme park and resort levels; and the creation of an entire new line of business for Universal Parks & Resorts. For fifteen years, Jason was a Senior Show Writer for Walt Disney Imagineering. His Disney credits include creative development of Star Wars Land, New Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom Park, Star Tours: The Adventures Continue, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Captain Jack Sparrow starring Johnny Depp, Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor, Raiders of the Lost Jedi Temple of Doom, Symphony in the Stars: A Star Wars Fireworks Spectacular, The American Idol Experience, Star Wars Weekends, The Great Movie Ride, Walt Disney: One Man’s Dream, The Magic of Disney Animation, enhancements to Pirates of the Caribbean and The Haunted Mansion, and the long term creative visioning and master planning of Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Jason is the author of The Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies, The Art of the Haunted Mansion, Screenplay by Disney: Tips and Techniques to Bring Magic to Your Moviemaking, Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies, The Disney Mountains: Imagineering at Its Peak, The Art of Marvel’s The Avengers and The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic. Jason also contributed essays and feature articles to The Imagineering Way, The Imagineering Workout, The Disney Insider Yearbook and disney twenty-three magazine. He also wrote for Walt Disney Television's internationally syndicated television series “Secrets of the Animal Kingdom.” Jason is currently working on the screenplay for a supernatural thriller and a trilogy of YA novels.
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