Epic Universe, the first major theme park to be built in the United States in 25 years opens on May 22, 2025. Steve Tatham ’83 is the executive creative director for Universal Creative of the project. In his role, he leads the creative team and is responsible for all creative execution. His role is define as being the voice and the vision of the project. His role is to ensure that the team delivers on, as he says, the “promise of the premise” and that the creative execution matches the creative intent. He has been with Universal Creative for ten years starting with a four-year stint at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka. Prior to that he spent 28 years at Disney starting at Walt Disney Imagineering, the theme park design entity of Disney, as a set designer in 1987 after completing his masters in architecture at UCLA.
