EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is developing a new half-hour comedy from stand-up Atsuko Okatsuka and Josh Rabinowitz, sources tell Deadline.
Reps for Amazon declined comment. Plot details and the show’s title are being kept under wraps, though we’re told it’s a starring vehicle for Okatsuka about modern marriage.
Hiro Murai will exec produce for Super Frog, alongside Ramy Youssef for Cairo Cowboy, Entertainment 360, Okatsuka and Rabinowitz.
Named to our list of the Comics Who Won 2025, Okatsuka is a comedian, a writer, and an actor, currently touring internationally with her Big Bowl Tour. She’s coming off the release of her sophomore special, Father, which premiered on Hulu and Disney+ and won a Webby Award for Best Comedy & Stand-Up. Okatsuka’s first special, HBO’s The Intruder, was named the best debut comedy special of 2022 by the New York Times and won a Gracie Award for Best Special. Next year, her third special will premiere on Netflix.
On the acting front, Okatsuka’s credits include Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Pixar’s Elio, Jonah Hill’s Apple flick Outcome, and Judd Apatow’s upcoming Universal comedy The Comeback King, co-written by and starring Glen Powell. She was just named Breakout Comedy Star of the Year at Just for Laughs and is repped by Entertainment 360, CAA, and attorney Melissa Fox at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
Rabinowitz is a writer-producer whose credits include the Ilana Glazer projects Babes and Broad City, Youssef’s breakout Hulu series Ramy and Amazon animated comedy #1 Happy Family USA, and The Carmichael Show. He is repped by UTA, Entertainment 360, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
Murai just scored his latest pair of Emmy nominations as director and executive producer of Widow’s Bay, the breakout horror-comedy from Apple, which leads all new programs in noms this year with 19. Among his other upcoming projects is the Sadie Sink-led limited series The Marriage Plot for FX, with whom he recently reupped his first-look deal. He is repped by Untitled Entertainment, UTA, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
As a producer, Youssef’s recent credits include his HBO special Ramy Youssef: In Love and the Amazon series #1 Happy Family USA, which he created with Pam Brady. As an actor, recent credits include HBO’s Mountainhead and an appearance on Apple’s The Studio. He is repped by WME, Entertainment 360, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
