Marissa Ronca

Current

• Senior Director of Primetime Development at truTV

Past

• Director of Development at TLC / Discovery
• Producer at Brainbox Productions
• Associate Producer at Discovery International

• Coordinator at Henninger Media Services

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Education

• Syracuse University

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Marissa Ronca’s Summary

Marissa Ronca is currently the director of program development for Court / truTV. In this position, Ronca is charged with the development of new prime time non-fiction series that help expand the Court TV brand beyond exclusively crime and justice programming. Before coming to Court TV, Ronca was director of development at TLC and Discovery Home Channel where she was responsible for cultivating original programming for daytime and prime time series and specials. In this position she developed the successful series Little People, Big World and LA Ink. She is also credited with developing TLC’s first broadband series, Makeover Train.
Ronca’s documentary film work includes serving as Executive Producer on Crazy Sexy Cancer and Prussian Blue. She also produced the 2006 independent scripted feature film The Guatemalan Handshake.

Marissa Ronca’s Experience

• Senior Director of Primetime Development

  truTV

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

• Director of Development

  TLC / Discovery

  (Entertainment industry)

  February 2005 — May 2007 (2 years 4 months)

  Development Executive on: Little People Big World, LA Ink, Cover Shot etc.
  Crazy Sexy Cancer - Executive Producer / Development Executive

• Producer

  Brainbox Productions

  (Privately Held; Entertainment industry)

  July 2003 — February 2005 (1 year 8 months)

  Small Space: Big Style (HGTV) - Producer / Writer / Creator
  The Investigators: Head Cases (Court TV) - Producer / Writer
  The Guatemalan Handshake (feature independent film) - Producer

• Associate Producer

  Discovery International

  (Entertainment industry)

  July 2001 — July 2003 (2 years 1 month)

• Coordinator

  Henninger Media Services

  (Entertainment industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year)

Marissa Ronca’s Education

• Syracuse University

  BS , TV, Radio, Film Productions , 1995 — 1999

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