Rich West

Rich West has worked in the entertainment industry for over 30 years.

He began his career as a prop and model maker, working on television

shows for Nickelodeon Studios, Walt Disney Productions, and the Tom Hanks

mini-series: From The Earth To The Moon.

For the past 25 years, he has worked in the theme park industry, with a

major emphasis on attraction design, architecture, and show set design.

He has lent his talents to Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights as

a yearly designer for their haunted houses and street-mosphere.

Working as a Designer and Art Director, he has contributed to the dev-

elopment of major attractions for Universal Studios Florida, including

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Diagon Alley, The Simpsons Ride,

Revenge of the Mummy, Universal’s Hollywood Drive-In Golf, and, as

Creative Director and Production Designer, the development of the land

experience for Dark Universe, a ‘classic monsters’ land for Universal’s

Epic Universe.

His outside interests include mid-century science fiction and building

museum-quality replicas of Hollywood robots and props.

To this day, he maintains an ongoing passion for Steinbach and the

artists of the Erzgebirge Mountains.