Nawrocki originally wanted a career in the medical field, and studied at St. Paul Bible College (now
Crown College) where he met Phil Vischer while serving on a puppet ministry. Nawrocki later enrolled at the
University of Illinois-Chicago, and joined Vischer at GRAFx. He helped to finance his education by taking a job with Renaissance Video, a video production facility where he gained experience in
video production and animation and later worked for Post Effects and Film and Tape Works. Nawrocki graduated from UIC in 1992 with a BS in biology and a BA in history. In 1993, Nawrocki left Film & Tape Works, a company that had purchased GRAFx Studios, and his future in medicine to join Vischer and founded Big Idea Productions. After Big Idea's liquidation in 2003, Nawrocki reactivated the company in 2004. On September 30, 2008, Big Idea Entertainment appointed Nawrocki to the position of Executive Vice President. In 2014,
DreamWorks Classics, the parent company of Big Idea, signed an exclusive deal with
Netflix to produce and distribute
VeggieTales in the House. Nawrocki was signed on to continue voicing most of his characters. In 2019, Nawrocki started releasing the Christian children's
chapter book series
The Dead Sea Squirrels, in which a boy named Michael discovers the petrified remains of Merle and Pearl, a squirrel couple who lived during
Jesus' time, near the
Dead Sea and brings them to America, where they are revived. It was conceptualized in 2016 originally as an animated series. In 2025, an animated series adaptation of the same name was released on Christian children's streaming service
Minno.
Revival of VeggieTales In March 2019, Nawrocki's partner
Phil Vischer announced on his Twitter that he had re-teamed with Nawrocki at
TBN to revive the
VeggieTales series. Just like previously, Vischer and Nawrocki would return to voice their characters and also work as writers for the new show. ==Awards==