Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Ron Miziker

TEA Awards its Lifetime Achievement Award to Ron Miziker at the 21st annual Thea Awards Gala in Anaheim

Anaheim, Calif. USA, 21 March 2015

The prestigious TEA Thea Award is considered one of the attractions industry’s greatest honors. The 21st Annual Thea Awards Gala, a black-tie dinner affair took place at the Disneyland Resort, Anaheim USA.

The Buzz Price Thea Award – Recognizing a Lifetime of Distinguished Achievements

“No one in our industry has created and produced a broader variety of shows around the world.”

Ron Miziker, Miziker & Company
The current Lifetime Achievement Award recipients discussed the work of a number of nominated candidates before making a recommendation to the full Thea Awards Committee. After reviewing Ron Miziker’s history in the industry and determining that he was still producing spectacular entertainment productions, Miziker was a unanimous choice. The discussion also paid attention to Miziker as a teacher of new talent, not only by project example (i.e. Disneyland’s Main Street Electrical Parade) but also by service to TEA, including two terms on the International Board, service as a member of the annual Thea Awards Committee, and by producing 5 Thea Awards shows, including the very successful TEA 20th Anniversary event. He has also been the recipient of four Thea Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Show Design.

No one in our industry has created and produced a broader variety of shows around the world than Ron Miziker. Miziker founded his own production company, Miziker & Company, in 1984 and his clients have included television networks, leading corporations, Presidents, Kings and Queens, a Sultan, the Olympics, the World Cup and Super Bowl, attraction and hotel developers, Disney, Universal Studios, Radio City Music Hall, Lotte World, Spain’s Expo ’92, Port Aventura and most recently, a major casino in Macao. Those projects have spanned the globe: Japan, Australia, Oman, Central and South America, China and the USA.
Miziker started his career in advertising, producing a daily variety show in Cincinnati before he joined the Disney Company as Director of Entertainment and Show Development, in 1971. At Disney, he was responsible for the planning and production of all shows for the opening of Walt Disney World and thereafter was responsible for shows at all Disney parks including Disneyland, Epcot Center and Tokyo Disneyland.

During his tenure at Disney, Miziker was responsible for the development of many original shows, parades, revues, dinner theater shows, celebrity headliner specials, character and animal shows, fireworks, and laser extravaganzas. One of the most popular productions Miziker produced was The Main Street Electrical Parade. He also participated in the master planning of some of Disney’s largest outdoor entertainment projects. After a period away from the company, Miziker returned to Disney Studios as Producer of Television Programs, including the Wonderful World of Disney. He was eventually named Vice President of Original Programs and Productions for the launch of the Disney Channel.

Whether developing show concepts, writing or producing – or passing on his know-how and entertainment ideas to new generations – Ron Miziker has earned this Thea recognition for 50 years of creating first-class fun and spectacle for audiences around the world.

TEA Media Contacts:
Judith Rubin Public Relations, judy@teaconnect.org
Jennifer Nevin, TEA COO, jennie@teaconnect.org

About TEA
The TEA (Themed Entertainment Association) is an international nonprofit alliance founded in 1991 and based in Burbank, Calif. Some 1,000 TEA members represent roughly 8,000 creative specialists, from architects to designers, technical specialists to master planners, scenic fabricators to artists, and builders to feasibility analysts working in 30 US states and 32 different countries. TEA presents the annual Thea Awards and the TEA Summit and hosts the annual SATE Conference (Storytelling, Architecture, Technology, Experience). TEA also produces a variety of print and electronic publications, including the TEA/AECOM Theme Index, TEA Annual Directory and Thea Awards Program magazine. Visit www.teaconnect.org.

About the Thea Awards
The Thea Awards, sponsored by Economics at AECOM, were created by the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) to help realize a key mission of the association: bringing recognition to achievement, talent and personal excellence within the themed entertainment industry. From a modest beginning in 1994, the Thea Awards have become internationally recognized as a symbol of excellence. The public is welcome to attend the black-tie 21st Annual Thea Awards Gala, which will be held March 21, 2015 at the Disneyland Hotel, Disneyland Resort, Anaheim Calif. USA. Tickets go on sale in early 2015 at www.teaconnect.org. The name of the award is a play on three words: the first is “Thea,” the Greek goddess from whom all light emanates. Thea was the mother of Helios (the sun), Eos (the dawn), and Selene (the moon). The second key word is “Theater,” a word derived from the goddess Thea. The third word, of course, is TEA, for the Association.