BOB PETERSON: The Dug Whisperer

An Academy-Award nominated, screenwriter, director and animator who co-wrote and co-directed the Pixar film Up in which he voiced the characters Dug and Alpha.  Prior to coming to Pixar, he wrote and illustrated the comic strip Loco Motives while attending Purdue.  He worked at Wavefront Technologies and Rezn8 Productions as a technical director and when hired by Pixar he started as an animator for commercials, then became an animator on Toy Story.  Peterson was nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay for Finding Nemo. He also a voice actor that has provided the voices of Roz in Monsters, Inc., Mr. Ray in Finding Nemo,  as well as the Janitor in Toy Story 3. He also plays the voice of Chick Hicks in Cars 3 replacing Michael Keaton.  Bob serves as the narrator in the Finding Dory read-along book. Bob Peterson went on to write and direct  10 episodes of Forky Asks a Question, Dug Days and Carl’s Date.