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-Rich.