Meet Steve Czarnecki | Creative Content Producer, Segment Director, Digital Creator, Writer and Editor

We had the good fortune of connecting with Steve Czarnecki and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Steve, why did you pursue a creative career?
Creativity is something that’s just been hard-wired into me since I came into existence. Whether in the form of physical creation or public entertaining, I’ve always had a natural ability to make people laugh and smile. It became a natural progression going into my teens and then as a young adult to evolve into someone who made creativity an integrated part of my everyday existence. Wearing silly costumes, doing voice impersonations, coming up with quick puns (good and bad) and one-liners, telling jokes, writing jokes, being a storyteller, throwing myself in the spotlight to be the target of funny or unique situations, it’s all a part of who I am. Taking on the role sometimes as the Jester who not only entertains but inspires others by what I do, but can also entertain and laugh at himself doing the most asinine and ridiculous things for a laugh, is a role and responsibility I’ve whole-heartedly embraced my whole life.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
I’ve always worked a fun job. I think a key to my happiness and driving that train of entertainment is the fact I’ve never worked a typical 9-5 job. I was first employed at the age of 14 working at a Kay-Bee Toy store in our local mall in Miami. Two years later I was brought onto the management team at my local Blockbuster Video…that lasted for a decade. That job overlapped with my producing a Top-40 weekly Morning Drive Radio show, while juggling college and also working a third job as an Assistant Manager of a Warner Brothers Studio store in South Florida. But who can complain when you’re young and getting paid working around movies, cartoon characters and being an on-air personality for a hit radio station?

I’d be selling myself short to say it stopped there…I ended up leaving morning radio after 8 years and becoming a Producer for a LIVE kids daily interactive TV show on South Beach for a couple years, a job that I brought my younger brother onto and helped launch his career in entertainment with. I clocked in almost two years after that as the Promotions and Marketing Director for Radio Disney in Miami, before then being offered a job to move out to HOLLYWOOD California to produce more kids television. The next twenty years I worked on reality shows, game shows, children’s programming and lots of of other project’s for studios and networks like SONY, Disney, G4TV, NBC/Universal, FOX, Discovery Kids, Warner Bros and eventually landed a position working in creative promotions and marketing at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. I never detoured from ever working on something or someplace that didn’t inspire my imagination and keep my inner child always smiling and entertained.

As I’ve now got a family of my own, it’s been a thrill raising my four kids and being creative with them for over the past decade with our family YouTube channel called “On the Scene Adventures”. We have worked with major motion picture studios, television networks, entertainment/PR agencies, news/attraction websites, toy companies, animation series, theme parks, virtual/online presentations and numerous corporate brands. We love to create content that’s educational, engaging and entertaining, whether it’s covering a red carpet world premiere, checking out the newest local attraction, reporting from an annual fan/toy/comic convention or attending a special promotional event. The fun continues, just in a new way, with all-new adventures. In fact I just recently published my very first kids book called “BIGFOOT in my Backyard”, which is now available on Amazon, and it’s been a blast having the kids help me with that creation the past 2 years and even now on the back-end with the marketing and promotion of it. 

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
A few years ago I relocated with my family from California to Connecticut. It’s been quite the adjustment. After 27 years in South Florida and another 20 in Southern California, I was used to warm and dry climates, so bitter cold New England Winters are still something I’m trying to acclimate myself too. When friends and family would come visit me in Los Angeles, taking them for an unforgettable time was a no-brainer. Between all my connections at movie studios, theme parks and themed tourist destinations, I would offer them a truly once in a lifetime, VIP experience they could never get with anyone else.

Now…I’m a bit of a fish out of water here in Connecticut and I’m slowly learning for myself those locations and destinations that are entertaining, which admit-tingly is sort of fun to experience with them as well together, sometimes for the first time. I think the ‘given’ answer is that we’re about 90 minutes out of New York City, so taking friends or family into the Big Apple for a Broadway show, sight-seeing around Times Square and having a fine dinner in Little Italy are easy and wonderful defaults. Staying close to home now in and around Connecticut, there are some charming local family farms, seasonal festivals and a wide selection of charred thin crust New England style pizza (or as they say locally “apizza”) restaurants, to entice any out of towner to the culture I’m now immersed in with my family.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
I think I’ve had an overwhelming amazing support system for the past 50 years of family and friends embracing and understanding exactly who I am. From my earliest on-stage performance in kindergarten as “Happy” , one of the 7-Dwarfs in a Disney themed elementary production, they were there cheering me on. They remember me as the wacky guy who ran through the halls of high school in a homemade Batman costume when it wasn’t Halloween. They watched me as the enthusiastic host of LIVE remotes every weekend for Radio Disney playing games and giving away prizes to kids and families. They showed up and laughed for years as I told jokes and played fun games at promotional movie screenings, giving away tons of swag and merchandise. They showed up to my themed “Romance Through Time’ wedding in costume and were there to support my wife and I on our special day…which was taped, paid for and broadcast for a Wedding Reality Show on TV. They showed up for each and every theme party I threw from holiday bashes to random celebrations, all because there was an understanding that under my roof, I would provide a safe place for entertainment, good food, great company and unforgettable memories. They accepted and never questioned my love of Back to the Future and watched it grow from dressing up as ‘Doc’ and ‘Marty’ in high school, to working years later with BacktotheFuture.com for over two decades in California and now currently working as a Producer, creating content for Back to the Future: the Musical on BROADWAY. It’s been that support system of family, friends and industry colleagues who have never judged my creative avenues and as cliche as it sounds, been the wind beneath my wings, that have continued to allow me to soar.

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