7 hours Ago By Mike Barnes
Allyce Ozarski, an Emmy-nominated producer whose credits included and , has died. She was 41. Ozarski died Jan.
24 in Los Angeles from the progression of triple negative metastatic breast cancer, her family announced. Ozarski most recently served as an executive producer on two anticipated upcoming series: Netflix’s , which arrives from Gloria Sanchez Productions and T-Street Productions and stars Will Ferrell and Ramy Youssef, and the untitled for Sony Pictures TV and Apple TV+ that stars Rhea Seehorn. Ozarski had a long partnership with Showtime, where she produced Frankie Shaw’s in 2019 and was an exec producer on the 2019-23 sequel on , the 2022 limited series that starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick; and on the Vanessa Bayer 2022 comedy She received her Emmy nom in 2018 for outstanding variety sketch series for producing Hulu’s , starring Sarah Silverman.
“I’m so grateful to have known her. To have worked with her. To have built something with her,” writer-producer Marja-Lewis Ryan said in a statement.
“Her confidence made me a better creator and, perhaps more significantly, her seemingly endless patience made me a better mother. She was and is my North Star.” Born in California, Ozarski was raised near San Diego in Poway.
She graduated with honors from the University of Washington, where she double-majored in international studies and Italian. She landed a job in Los Angeles selling rugs with lifelong friend Caroline Mink-Richardson before a chance meeting with a TV director led to her first job in the industry. Ozarski worked as a travel coordinator in 2007 on Noggin’s , a reality series about competitive surfing, and as an assistant production coordinator/production coordinator on such shows as ABC Family’s and NBC’s , and .
She produced the 2017 Comedy Central series and worked on FX’s , starring Zach Galifianakis and , from 2017-19. Ozarski and producing partner Anna Dokoza recently co-founded Funny Adjacent Productions to develop and produce projects in narrative and unscripted formats. She “will always be remembered as a powerful presence who cared deeply about every little detail, her sense of humor and, above all things, her integrity.
She saw the best in everyone,” her family noted. “She always fought for safer working conditions for her film crews and elevated those with whom she worked. Those who knew her well will surely miss the sound of her heels, her endless (ethical) animal prints and unwavering belief in the art she made and the people with whom she made it.
“She spent her entire career correcting people who called her Alice.” Survivors include her husband, director-producer Jonathan Haug (they married in November 2016), and their 4-year-old daughter, Harley; her parents, Robert and Idelma; and her brothers, Adam and Marc. Donations in her memory can be made to her daughter’s (enter code: S3K-662).
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