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Matthew Ross is an award-winning director, screenwriter, journalist, and fiction writer from New York City.He made his feature-length debut as writer-director with Frank & Lola, a "psychosexual noir love story" starring Michael Shannon, Imogen Poots, Michael Nyqvist, Justin Long, Emmanuelle Devos and Rosanna Arquette. Frank & Lola made its world premiere to critical acclaim at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. It was acquired Universal Studios and released later that year.Notable work includes directing multiple episodes of Wu-Tang: An American Saga for Hulu, Imagine and showrunners RZA and Alex Tse, including the acclaimed "Criminology" (Season 3, Episode 6); contributing storylines to Larry David's HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, including the“Palestinian Chicken” episode, which Vanity Fair called “the crowning achievement of the entire series," writing several episodes the hit ABC series Nashville for showrunner Marshall Herskovitz, and directing the feature film Siberia, starring Keanu Reeves.He has also written and developed screenplays and television shows for CBS Studios, Universal Studios, Sony Pictures, CBS Studios, TNT, Lionsgate, Baltimore Pictures, Film 44, Studio 8, Anonymous Content, Vice Studios, Addictive Pictures, NeoText, Mythology Entertainment, Palmstar Media, Radical Studios, Parts & Labor, and PatMa among other companies.Other writing and directing work includes the festival shorts Lola, Red Angel, and Curtis and Clover, the 2010 viral video Inspired by Bret Easton Ellis, commissioned by Ellis and Random House and described by film critic Roger Ebert described as “one terrific video”, and over 50 episodes of FIGHT! Life, an online documentary series about professional fighters PSA campaigns includes the launch video for the NYPD’s “Saturday Night Lights” program (which premiered at an event hosted by mayor Eric Adams, and the “Your Mind Matters” awareness initiative for the mental health foundation Fountain House.As a journalist, he has held staff editor/writer positions at a number of print and online publications, including Variety, Filmmaker, Indiewire, Fight!, and The Aesthete. His freelance articles about film, culture, sports, and politics have appeared in Playboy, The Village Voice, Nerve, Humanity, the Criterion Collection, and dozens of other publications. Ross graduated Cum Laude with Honors from Harvard University. He lives in Brooklyn. He is represented by MGMT (management), Paradigm (agent), and Hanson Jacobson Teller (attorney). (See Contact page for more information.)