Jason Surrell is a former show writer and producer forWalt Disney Imagineering, the division ofThe Walt Disney Company that designs and builds for Disney's theme parks and resort hotels. Surrell also is a show director forWalt Disney Entertainment. In June 2014, Surrell left Walt Disney Imagineering and worked withUniversal Creative. In August 2025 he returned to work with Walt Disney Imagineering.^[1]

He contributed essays toThe Imagineering Way andThe Imagineering Workout. Surrell also regularly appears on panels, gives presentations, and interviews otherImagineers at various Disney events.

Surrell wrote a screenwriting manual,Screenplay by Disney: Tips and Techniques to Add Magic to Your Moviemaking, and has also contributed to theKingdom Keepers series of children's novels byRidley Pearson.

• The Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies (Known in its 3rd Edition asThe Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Classic)
• The Art of the Haunted Mansion
• Screenplay by Disney: Tips and Techniques to Add Magic to Your Moviemaking (ISBN 0786854405)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies (ISBN 1423107098)
• The Disney Mountains: Imagineering at its Peak (ISBN 1423101553)

• Jason Surrell atIMDb

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