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MTV's Alex Coletti, Grammy Nominated Producer Of The #1 Selling, Unplugged: Alicia Keys CD & DVD And The MTV Hurricane Relief Special, React Now, Inks Development Deal With MTV Networks Music Group
Alex Coletti, MTV Executive Producer / Director, has signed a development deal with the MTV Networks Music Group. Coletti is fresh off achieving incredible success as the Producer and Director of the #1 selling "Unplugged: Alicia Keys" CD and DVD, for which he received a Grammy Nomination for Best R&B album, as well as producing MTV's "ReAct Now: Music Relief" concert for the victims of the Gulf Coast hurricane tragedies. The announcement was made today by Dave Sirulnick, Executive Vice President, MTV News & Production. Coletti will be based at MTV Networks headquarters in New York and will report to Sirulnick. "It gives me great pleasure to announce Alex's development deal with MTV Networks Music Group," said Dave Sirulnick, EVP, MTV News and Production. "We have come to depend on Alex's creativity and drive to push our music programming to go beyond anything anyone has ever seen or done before." In his new role, Coletti will develop new music programming for all of MTV Networks music channels. In addition, Coletti will continue his role as Executive Producer/Director for the $2Bill concert series and "Video Mods" for MTV2 and also be allowed to take on projects outside of MTV Networks under this new deal. Coletti joined the MTV team as an Associate Producer in 1987. During his tenure, he has produced such shows as "MTV Unplugged," "Live from the 10 Spot," "The Grind," "MTV Spring Break" and "MTV's 1993 Rock and Roll Inaugural Ball." Coletti was the Producer of the Video Music Awards from 1999-2003 and Co-Executive Producer in 2004. These shows have featured some of the memorable moments in television history including the return of Guns N' Roses, Eminem's performance featuring 500 Eminem look-alikes, and the infamous Madonna and Britney Spears kiss. Most recently, Coletti was responsible for the production and development of programming on MTV2, including the highly successful "$2Bill" concerts, the groundbreaking video games series "Video Mods," Dew circuit breakout, the notorious "24 Hours of Courtney Love," the lunacy of "24 Hours of Foo Fighters." Coletti is best known for producing the legendary "Unplugged" series for MTV, ranging from Nirvana, Eric Clapton, Jay-Z, REM, Tony Bennett to the chart-topping, Alicia Keys. Alex Coletti has received three Emmy nominations, a Grammy nomination, two Cable Ace Awards, the ASCAP Deems Taylor award, and a Peabody Award for "MTV Unplugged." He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, Television and Radio from Brooklyn College.
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