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Bob Tzudiker is best known for co-creating and writing Newsies and for numerous projects in feature animation. He shares writing credit on Disney's Tarzan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and 102 Dalmatians as well as Fox's Anastasia. He also contributed to the film The Lion King and has written screenplays for every major studio. The stage version of Newsies has been seen by three million people and counting.

He is a member of the writers' branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. He teaches screenwriting at USC on a part-time basis.

Prior to writing, Bob worked as an actor, appearing in Total Recall, Ruthless People and Hill Street Blues, among many others. He is a graduate of St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD.