Phoebe Robinson

Phoebe Robinson (born September 28, 1984) is an American comedian, writer and actress based in New York City. She grew up in Bedford Heights and Solon, Ohio, attended high school at Gilmour Academy, and in 2002 went to college at the Pratt Institute in New York City, where she studied screenwriting. With Jessica Williams she is the creator and co-host of the 2 Dope Queens podcast and its HBO series. Her brother, Phil Robinson, is a member of the Ohio House of Representatives.

Robinson was a staff writer for MTV's Girl Code and a consultant on season three of Broad City, and is a regular contributor to Glamour, with work published in The New York Times, Vanity Fair and many other publications. Her blog Blaria, named for "Black Daria", has been featured in The Huffington Post. Her solo podcast Sooo Many White Guys premiered on July 12, 2016, featuring women, people of colour and LGBTQ guests, with Ilana Glazer of Broad City as an executive producer. She has made television appearances on Last Comic Standing, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Broad City and Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell.

Her first book, You Can't Touch My Hair (And Other Things I Still Have to Explain), debuted on October 4, 2016, followed by Everything's Trash, But It's Okay in 2018 and Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes in 2021. In July 2022 her television show Everything's Trash debuted on Freeform, in which she stars as Phoebe, a podcast host facing adulthood while her older brother, played by Jordan Carlos, runs for state office. The series was the first project from her production company, Tiny Reparations, and she later signed a first-look deal with Sony Pictures Television. She lives and performs in Brooklyn, New York.