Mitch Rosa

Mitch Rosa is an award-winning show runner who has worked in non-fiction television for the past three decades. He was instrumental in developing and launching The Ultimate Fighter–the UFC competition series that brought mixed martial arts to the mainstream. He went on to executive produce 28 seasons and over 200 episodes for Spike TV, FX, and Fox Sports 1. His credits as a showrunner include Lindsey, a series on the life of Lindsey Lohan for Oprah Winfrey, American Chopper, the long-running reality drama on Discovery, Top Shot for the History Channel, Greensburg, with Leonardo DiCaprio, about a Kansas town wiped out by a tornado and rebuilt to the highest green standards, and Michael Sam, a doc series about the first openly gay NFL draftee for OWN. Mitch has worked for networks including Animal Planet, the History Channel, Planet Green, Lifetime, Discovery, OWN, HGTV, truTV, and PBS.

A product of the UCLA film school, Mitch got his start as a runner for Peter Bogdanovich before moving into non-fiction television as an editor on series including Unsolved Mysteries and Penn and Teller. As a showrunner he has supervised hundreds of hours of television, overseeing both production and post, writing scripts, handling talent, and working with networks. He excels at making a show work.