Marty Ross is an avid writer who has written a range of plays, dramas and audiobooks.

Born and raised in Glasgow, Marty Ross left school at the age of 16 to pursue interests in theatre and acting. After a period of working as a hiking guide in locations such as the Scottish Highlands, the Cornish coast and the Austrian alps, Ross got a break writing radio drama for the BBC, ranging from single dramas about composer Arnold Schoenberg (A BREATH FROM OTHER PLANETS) & poets Else Lasker Schuler (MY BLUE PIANO), Edgar Allan Poe (MOYAMENSING) & William Shakespeare (ROUGH MAGICK), to the popular, much-repeated science fiction & horror serials GHOST ZONE & CATCH MY BREATH, as well as dramatizations of classic Scottish ghost stories by Stevenson, Hogg & Conan Doyle and of Leskov’s tale of criminal passion LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK. Ross has also written Doctor Who & Dark Shadows audio drama for Big Finish, including the Scribes Award nominated DRESS ME IN DARK DREAMS. For indie producer Wireless Theatre Company Ross also wrote a string of audio dramas, including Rondo-nominated BLOOD & STONE, NIGHT OF THE ORCHID, MEDUSA ON THE BEACH, THE WOMAN ON THE BRIDGE & CROOKER’S KINGDOM. Since 2015 Ross has written primarily for Audible, starting with 2015’s ROMEO & JUDE and continuing with TREASURE ISLAND, ARABIAN NIGHTS I & II, THE DARKWATER BRIDE, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, MOBY DICK, SLEEPING BEAUTY, OLIVER TWIST and now DAVID COPPERFIELD , with a further Dickens dramatization forthcoming. The stage play THE TALE OF TYPHOID MARY was produced in autumn 2021 and podcast drama KISSES IN THE DARK has topped podcast charts everywhere from Austria to Argentina. Marty also performs as a live storyteller with a repertoire ranging from original stories to classic folk tales, performed in diverse locations, whether theatre spaces or the forests of the Scottish Isle of Arran, where
Ross now lives. (Ross' storytelling can be heard on the MAGIC ISLAND STORYTELLING THEATRE podcast)