Mark Lund

Mark Ashton Lund (born June 6, 1965) is an American writer, publisher, and television analyst who covers figure skating. He is also a film producer.

He is the author of Frozen Assets (ISBN 0-9721402-0-4), and was formerly the publisher of International Figure Skating Magazine from its inception in 1993 until 2004, when his company, Ashton International Media, Inc., lost control of the magazine in a hostile takeover.[1]

In 2001, Out Magazine named Lund to the OUT 100 list of greatest success stories for that year.[2]

Lund has also made numerous media appearances as an analyst on figure skating, particularly during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal, where he was an analyst for CNN.[3][4] He served as a judge on the television show Skating with Celebrities in early 2006.[5][6] After losing control of International Figure Skating, Lund, who is openly gay,[5] founded another magazine, SCENE, aimed at the gay community.[7]

Lund appeared on Nancy Kerrigan's World of Skating in an episode that aired January 14, 2007 titled "Countdown to Nationals & Road to Glory".[8] His commentary in this episode concerning US men's figure skater Johnny Weir was criticized by several bloggers in the gay community.[9] On March 18, 2008 writer Alan Schwarz used some of Lund's quotes from the broadcast in a New York Times article titled Figure Skating Rivalry Pits Athleticism Against Artistry.[10]

In 2007, Lund appeared as Commander Steven Conner in Star Trek: Odyssey in their pilot episode "Iliad"[11] and produced the science fiction short film First World based on his feature-length script.[12] The script was nominated for screenplay awards at the California Independent Film Festival,[13] Fantastic Planet Film Festival [14] and The Movie Deal.[15]

On August 18, 2013, Lund premiered his first feature film Justice Is Mind at the Capital District Film Festival in Albany, NY.[16] After a limited theatrical run[17] and international premiere[18] the film was released by Filmhub to Amazon Prime on September 26, 2014.[19]

In 2014 Lund appeared on ESPN’s 30 for 30 episode The Price of Gold[20] about the attack on Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, MI.

In 2016 Lund wrote Serpentine, a political thriller around the sport of figure skating.[21] To develop interest in the project Lund produced the first ten pages of the script.[22] Serpentine: The Short Program premiered on March 6, 2017 at the Strand Theatre in Clinton, MA.[23]