Ross Martin

SVP & Head of Programming, mtvU

Ross Martin is Senior Vice President and Head of Programming for mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, overseeing the development and production of mtvU’s Emmy, Peabody and Beacon award-winning programming, featuring the best new music, pro-social campaigns, original series, branded entertainment and student-produced content, on-air, online, on mobile and on campuses nationwide.

Martin is a former principal of Plant Film, where he developed and produced feature film and television projects for VH1, FOX, Kevin Spacey’s Trigger Street Productions, Nissan, Details Magazine and more. Prior to Plant Film, he was Vice President of Film & Television at Nerve.com, where he launched Nerve’s feature film and television projects for Sony Pictures, Miramax and HBO. Martin created and executive produced Nerve’s one-hour special for HBO.

Martin began his career as a development executive for Spike Lee’s 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, where he developed the feature films Summer of Sam, Get On the Bus, He Got Game, The Best Man and 3 A.M.

He has taught creative writing at Rhode Island School of Design, The New School and Washington University in St. Louis, where he received his MFA. In 2001, Zoo Press and the University of Nebraska Press published his first book, The Cop Who Rides Alone. His writing appears in numerous journals and anthologies and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Martin is currently attached to produce the feature film comedy Working Stiff, based on the memoir by Grant Stoddard, for Paramount. He serves on the boards of the Williamstown Film Festival and interactive gaming company ImpactGames. He lives in Brooklyn.