Allison Silverman (born February 17, 1972)[1] is an American comedy writer and producer, known for her work on Russian Doll, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
[6] Silverman won an Emmy and a Peabody Award as a member of The Daily Show's writing staff before joining Late Night in 2002.
During this period, Silverman was notably the only female writer on staff for both The Daily Show and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
Although most of Silverman's work on the Report was off-camera, she occasionally made appearances on the show, as an audience member, as the voice of the alien woman "Juliax" in a Tek Jansen cartoon, and as "Your Soulmate" in the abridged audiobook of I Am America (And So Can You!
[1] In an interview, Carrie Brownstein reflected about the encouragement that she received from Silverman on the first season of Portlandia:"I try to sort of model what she did for me in my own life, which was just to listen, to understand that there is that fear when you first enter a room—a figurative or literal room—where you're kind of forced to speak in a different register.
[12] Between the years of 2011–2013, Silverman was a writer on The Office, before she began working as executive producer on the comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
In 2022 it was reported that Silverman is working with writer George Saunders on a pilot for the short story series CivilWarLand in Bad Decline,[16] as well as an adaptation of David Goodwillie's Kings County.