Allison Silverman
Allison Silverman (born February 17, 1972) is an American comedy writer. She was the head writer and executive producer for "The Colbert Report" until 2009. In 2011, she was an executive producer and writer of "Portlandia". Early life. Silverman graduated from Buchholz High School in Gainesville, Florida in 1990 and from Yale University in 1994. Professional career. Silverman has written for "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien". She has received several Emmy nominations for her work on these three shows, including two wins for her work on "The Daily Show" and "The  Colbert Report". Silverman attended Yale University in the early 1990s, where she was involved in one of the college's improvisational comedy groups, The Ex!t Players. After graduating in 1994 with a degree in Humanities, she made her way to Chicago. She performed at Chicago's iO Theater (then known as ImprovOlympic), and later at the Boom Chicago theater in Amsterdam. Silverman won an Emmy and a Peabody Award as a member of "The Daily Show"'s writing staff before joining "Late Night" in 2002. She moved to "The Colbert Report" in 2005 shortly after it was picked up to  series. 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!)", which she co-wrote. She was a 2009 recipient of NYWIFT's Muse Award, celebrating the achievements of women who work in film and television. She left "The Colbert Report" in August 2009. Silverman was a writer and producer on "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" from 2015 to 2017 . She's also a writer on the Apple TV+ musical comedy series Schmigadoon! which stars Cecily Strong. Personal life. Silverman married Adrian Jones in 2009.