UUOP #320 - Julie Zimmerman : Former Creative Director at Universal Studios Florida
Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast
Lee Mallaby
4.6 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
On this episode we talk to Julie Zimmerman, former Creative Director for Universal Studios Florida about her time working on the park and the creation of Halloween Horror Nights.
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| 0:00.0 | We talked to Julie Zimmerman, former creative director for Universal Studios, Florida, on episode 320 of the unofficial Universal Orlando podcast. |
| 0:20.7 | Hey everyone, welcome to the show. |
| 0:22.4 | I am your host this week. |
| 0:23.6 | I am Lee, and joining me is my good lady wife, Tracy. |
| 0:26.1 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:27.3 | And of course, Darren. |
| 0:29.1 | What's up, internet? |
| 0:30.2 | Hello. |
| 0:30.9 | Chris is still enjoying Universal Orlando and Halloween Horror nights, I assume, |
| 0:34.7 | and still probably trying to get Red Oven to deliver pizza to a hotel room. Not much luck, but there we go. A week now, yes. Very funny. As you heard just there, we have a very illustrious guest with us today. We have, as I said in the intro, former creative director for Universal Studios, Florida. Julie Zimmerman, hey Julie, thanks for joining us on the show. Oh, it's my pleasure. Thank you. It's raining in Orlando. Just thought I'd let you know. Well, it's because it's trying to make us Brits feel a little bit more at home. Yes. It's a good day to go to theme parks when it rains, though. It's a lot of people will cancel or just leave when it rains. So I've always said to people, go when it rains. And then you can |
| 1:15.8 | get into everything a lot easier. |
| 1:18.2 | Completely agree. So if you recognize Julie's voice, this is not the first time she has been |
| 1:24.0 | heard on this show. This is the first time we've actually been able to speak to her, but she was part of our tribute to Bill Intent's Excellent Halloween Adventure, which we've actually just realised it's a year ago, which is crazy. Yes, it is. But we will get to Halloween Horror Nights later, because that's something we really want to delve into. But for first, Julie, our listeners want to know, what's your history in theme parks before working at Universal Orlando? |
| 1:46.3 | How did you land that job? |
| 1:48.3 | Well, I was, you know, I was born in a theme park because Sondesky, Ohio, where I was born, has a theme park called Cedar Point. |
| 1:55.1 | Yes. |
| 1:56.2 | And, but I ended up at Universal. |
| 1:58.5 | I lived in Los Angeles, started when I was 20. |
| 2:01.1 | And I had worked in various television, and I was a stand-of comedian, believe it or not. |
| 2:07.2 | But I had moved to Northern California because I needed a break from L.A. |
| 2:11.1 | And I saw an ad in a San Francisco Chronicle for entertainment professionals. |
| 2:16.1 | I applied, and they called me. I went down and |
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