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October 1, 2024 28 mins
Andy Ostroy is an entrepreneur, film and television producer and director, podcaster, writer and non-profit founder. He spent 35 years in marketing, including 20 at Belardi/Ostroy, the firm he co-founded in 1997. He directed and produced ADRIENNE, the 2021 HBO documentary about his late wife, actor/writer/director Adrienne Shelly (WAITRESS), who was murdered in 2006. Following her death, he produced SERIOUS MOONLIGHT, a script she'd written, and which starred Meg Ryan and Timothy Hutton and was directed by Cheryl Hines. He's currently working on a stage version of the script, and is also an executive producer of a scripted television series in development. In 2006 he founded and is executive director of the Adrienne Shelly Foundation, which has awarded over 100 production grants to women filmmakers, including 2021 Academy Award Best Director winner Chloe Zhao (NOMADLAND), a 2012 ASF grant recipient while working on her first feature film. His writing has appeared in The Daily Beast, Huffington Post NY Times and Medium. In 2022 Ostroy created The Back Room with Andy Ostroy politics and pop culture podcast. Guests have included Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, Maggie Haberman, Andrew Weissman, Katie Couric, Soledad O'Brien, Kara Swisher, Molly Jong Fast, James Carville, NY Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, Reps Pat Ryan, Dan Goldman, Eric Swalwell, Elissa Slotkin and Jasmine Crockett, Paul Rudd, Judd Apatow, Michelle Williams, Julianna Margulies, Jane Lynch, Andy Richter, Jeremy Sisto, Cheryl Hines, Sara Bareilles, Finneas, Peter Frampton, Blondie's Chris Stein,original Beatles drummer Pete Best and documentary filmmakers Alexandra Pelosi, Dawn Porter and Ken Burns. He also co-owns Samuel's Sweet Shop in Rhinebeck, NY with Paul & Julie Rudd, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Hilarie Burton.
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