Kevin Rafferty is a Creative Director and Show Writer at Walt Disney Imagineering.
Growing up in Southern California, Kevin began his Disney career in 1974 as a dish washer at the Plaza Inn before applying for an entry level position at Imagineering in 1978 during the massive recruitment period for Epcot. By the late 1980s, he found a niche as a writer and worked on numerous projects in the decades to follow, with plans to retire after the opening of Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway. Kevin released an autobiography in 2019 titled Magic Journey: My Fantastical Walt Disney Imagineering Career. His son, Kevin Rafferty Jr., is one of the writers of the official Disney Parks Blog.
Projects Kevin worked on or developed include:
- Typhoon Lagoon
- The Comedy Warehouse at Pleasure Island
- Star Tours and the Tony Solaroni show in Pan Galactic Pizza Port at Tokyo Disneyland
- The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
- The 1994 version of Carousel of Progress
- It's Tough to Be a Bug!
- The Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management)
- Sonny Eclipse's show at Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe
- Blizzard Beach
- Test Track
- Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith
- Mickey's PhilharMagic
- Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage
- Toy Story Midway Mania!
- Cars Land
- Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway
Most notable of the unbuilt concepts that Kevin worked on was Roger Rabbit's Hollywood, where he devised the story of the Toontown Trolley simulator ride.