Abbi Jacobson

Abbi Jacobson (born 1984) is an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and illustrator. Born in Wayne, Pennsylvania, she studied fine arts and video production at the Maryland Institute College of Art, graduating in 2006, and later took classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York, where she met Ilana Glazer. With Glazer she co-created and co-starred in the Comedy Central series Broad City (2014-2019), which grew out of a web series of the same name and earned critical acclaim. She is also a writer and co-creator of the Amazon Prime series A League of Their Own (2022), in which she stars as Carson Shaw. Her voice roles include Princess Bean in Disenchantment, Katie Mitchell in The Mitchells vs. the Machines, and Nya in The Lego Ninjago Movie. Jacobson founded the production company Tender Pictures in 2020 and has published a book of personal essays, I Might Regret This.