Shabnam Rezaei

Shabnam co-founded Big Bad Boo Studios, based in Vienna and Vancouver. She creates and produces quality animated TV shows including “Galapagos X” and “The Bravest Knight”, a Hulu original, nominated for a third GLAAD Award. She is producing season 4 of preschool favorite “16 Hudson”, with TVOKids, Knowledge Kids, Radio-Canada and TFO.
Shabnam has created and directed multiple award-wining children’s TV series including “Judge Jodhi”, “Lili & Lola”, and musical series “ABC with Kenny G”. Her earlier works include “Mixed Nutz”, and “1001 Nights”, inspired by the stories her father told her as a child, from the original books. Today, “1001 Nights” airs in 80 countries on Amazon Prime, Disney Asia, Teletoon, Gloob Brazil, RTBF Belgium, and MTV3 Finland.
With a BS in Computer Science, a BA in German Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from New York University. Shabnam spent 10 years on Wall street working at EXIS and Deloitte &Touche in New York and London. Before starting Big Bad Boo, she was the Head of Professional Services for Misys Treasury and Capital Markets, managing international banking clients with over $30M in revenue. She has been featured on CBC, CNN, Forbes, BBC, FOX, the New York Times and NPR. She speaks English, German, Persian, French, and Spanish and is raising her two daughters trilingual.
Big Bad Boo produces educational lesson plans, interactive games and short content, working with TV channels, school boards and non-profit organizations to implement curricula for civic education, 21st century skills, social/emotional learning, and literacy. The content is distributed to educational stations such as ORF Austria, CBC Kids, Al Jazeera Children’s, CCTV China, Discovery Kids Latin America, Edye Hispanic Channel, Hop Channel Israel, Hopster UK, Okto Singapore, and TV Jamaica. The company’s own streaming channel Oznoz provides cartoons to multilingual families in 10+ languages including Thomas and Friends, and Paw Patrol.