#747: Dawn Murin
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast
Wizards of the Coast
4.7 • 801 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm not pulling out of my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive-to-work coronavirus edition. |
| 0:07.0 | So I've been interviewing people. I've been trying to interview lots of different kinds of people. |
| 0:11.0 | So I'm excited today to have Don Muran with us. So say hi, Dawn. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, Don. Hi, everybody. Hi, Mark. How you all doing? |
| 0:19.0 | So let's start by telling them what you do. What is your title? |
| 0:23.3 | So my title is senior art director. I am on the magic creative team at Wizards of the Coast. |
| 0:32.9 | Okay, so I want to first start with how you got to where you were, and then we'll talk about what exactly it is you do. |
| 0:38.8 | So how, you actually have an interesting story. |
| 0:41.3 | How did you get to Wizards of the Coast? |
| 0:43.9 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 0:44.9 | I got to Wizards of the Coast because I was working at TSR, the creator of Dungeons and Dragons |
| 0:52.3 | in the 90s. |
| 0:59.0 | And it's no secret that the company was going bankrupt. |
| 1:17.1 | And fortunately, we had a knight in shining armor whose name is Peter Atkinson, who bought TSR and moved us all out. Well, not everybody, but, you know, |
| 1:21.3 | geez, about 60 of us. Yeah, I mean, so Peter, for those who don't know, Peter Atkinson, |
| 1:29.5 | one of the people who created Wizard of the Coast and this original CEO, was a huge Dungeons and Dragons fan. |
| 1:31.4 | Yes. And, right, he found out that basically the company that |
| 1:33.3 | made Dun Dragons was going under, |
| 1:35.3 | and so he bought it. I mean, wizards, he |
| 1:37.2 | organized Wizards to buy it. |
| 1:39.3 | So, that was |
| 1:40.9 | 98? Is that right? |
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