BARBARA GROTH

  CEO & Creative Director, Big Buddha Baba   Productions

Barbara Groth is CEO & Creative Director at Big Buddha Baba Productions, a Los Angeles-based production company that specializes in creating interactive media experiences for museums, theme parks and retail environments. Clients include Walt Disney Imagineering, Chicago’s Museum of Science & Industry, Paul Allen’s Science Fiction Museum & The Experience Music Project.

In 1986 Barb traveled to war-torn Central America to produce the feature documentary, MADRE. Upon her return she worked with Robert Abel on pioneering interactive prototypes for Apple and IBM, then co-founded Geismar & Groth Interactive, working with Deepak Chopra and B.B. King, before joining Walt Disney Imagineering as a senior show producer on DisneyQuest.

Barb formed Big Buddha Baba Productions to create media for location-based experiences including Epcot’s Turtle Talk with Crush, a ground-breaking live interactive show based on characters from Finding Nemo; The Science Fiction Museum; and DoubleTake, a film installation featuring David Hyde Pierce at Experience Music Project. Upcoming works include a re-imagined Disney attraction, an
innovative retail store, and Safari As A Way of Life, a traveling interactive experience inspired by the life and work of Dan Eldon.

Barb has taught interactive design and documentary filmmaking at Banff Centre for the Arts, UCLA, NYU, USC and AFI, and her work has been featured on the Oprah show.