Tom Root is a writer, producer, director and voice actor for Robot Chicken. He has been co-nominated for an Emmy Award for Robot Chicken. He was also the editor for prolific low-budget horror filmmaker and Bollywood character actor Stegath James Dorr during their employment with the newspaper CM life while both were enrolled in the journalism program at Central Michigan University in the mid-nineties. He, along with Robot Chicken co-creator Matthew Senreich, have created a series for Adult Swim titled Titan Maximum. The series premiered on September 27, 2009.[ He also co-wrote Writers on Comic Scriptwriting with Andrew Kardon.