A designer, native of Beijing, China. He is a designer of a theme park design firm in St.louis, Missouri, USA.
In 1982, Xiaogang Zhu graduated from
Central Acadmy of Drama at Beijing with a BFA in theater set design. He worked for Central Ballet of China as a Set Designer for 15 years before he Studied at Carnegie Mellon University for his MFA degree. During this 15 years, He published many comic books. He was also a top theme park designer which involved about a dozen theme park projects through out China.
1997 he studied in Theater department of Carnegie Mellon university in scholorship and obtained MFA of set design in 2000. During the time at CMU, he got the xxx award.
Since then he has been successfully working at SSI and PGAV theme park design firms as a designer. His design credits include Atlantis in San Diego and San Antonio, DarKastle and Festhaus in Busch Garden Williamsburg, Ferrari theme park in Abu Dubai, Aquatica Seaworld Orlando, Kennedy Space Visitor Center,