Abbi Jacobson is a co-creator, writer, director, executive producer and star of the critically acclaimed show Broad City, which was nominated by the Writers Guild of America for ‘Best Comedy Series.’
After a fifth and final season, Abbi is now working on a number of projects including executive producing, showrunning and starring in the Amazon television series, A League of Their Own, based on the 1992 film of the same name. The show will infuse the warmth, humor and DNA of the classic film, while expanding its lens to explore race and sexuality as the series follows a new ensemble of women carving out their own paths in the league and outside of it. The cast includes D’Arcy Carden and Chanté Adams.
Most recently, Abbi can be heard voicing the character “Katie Mitchell,” a creative outsider who is accepted into the school of her dreams, in the Netflix animated film The Mitchells vs. The Machines alongside Maya Rudolph, Eric Andre, Olivia Colman and Danny McBride, which released on Apri
Abbi Jacobson is a co-creator, writer, director, executive producer and star of the critically acclaimed show Broad City, which was nominated by the Writers Guild of America for ‘Best Comedy Series.’
After a fifth and final season, Abbi is now working on a number of projects including executive producing, showrunning and starring in the Amazon television series, A League of Their Own, based on the 1992 film of the same name. The show will infuse the warmth, humor and DNA of the classic film, while expanding its lens to explore race and sexuality as the series follows a new ensemble of women carving out their own paths in the league and outside of it. The cast includes D’Arcy Carden and Chanté Adams.
Most recently, Abbi can be heard voicing the character “Katie Mitchell,” a creative outsider who is accepted into the school of her dreams, in the Netflix animated film The Mitchells vs. The Machines alongside Maya Rudolph, Eric Andre, Olivia Colman and Danny McBride, which released on April 30, 2021. The film received an Academy Award® nomination for “Best Animated Feature'' and won eight Annie Awards for animation, including “Best Animated Feature.” In addition, Abbi, along with Ilana Glazer, currently have in development at Comedy Central the animated comedy Mall Town USA.
In 2018, Abbi released the book I Might Regret This, published by Grand Central Publishing which hit the New York Times Best Sellers List. She is already a New York Times-bestselling author of her illustrated book, Carry This Book, which showcases bright, quirky, and colorful line drawings at the world around us, all through the framework of what we carry. She also has two coloring books: Color This Book: New York City and Color This Book: San Francisco.
Abbi can also be heard as “Bean” in Netflix’s third season of the animated series Disenchantment by Matt Groenig. Jacobson previously starred in Netflix’s 6 Balloons, alongside Dave Franco, the animated Warner Bros. film, The LEGO Ninjago Movie, directed by Charlie Bean and Paul Fisher and opposite Olivia Munn, Justin Theroux, and Fred Armisen, and the Universal feature film Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising. Abbi also hosted A Piece of Work podcast with WNYC and MoMA, in which she discussed modern and contemporary art in lively conversations with curators, artists, and friends including Hannibal Buress, Tavi Gevinson, RuPaul and Questlove.
