Abbi Jacobson

 Abbi Jacobson is an American comedian, writer, and actress she is also an illustrator, producer, and actor. She co-created and appeared in the Comedy Central series Broad City (2014-2019) with Ilana Glazer. It was inspired by the web-based series that has the same name. Other roles include playing Katie Mitchell in The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021), Nya in The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017) as well as Princess Bean in the series Disenchantment (2018-present), in addition to appearing in the live-action films Person to Person (2017) and 6 Balloons (2018). She is a writer and co-creator of the Amazon Prime series A League of Their Own (2022) and stars as Carson Shaw, a baseball player from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.Abbi Jacobson is the daughter of Susan Komm, an artist and Alan Jacobson, a graphic designer.She is Jewish.She was born in Wayne, Pennsylvania, where she was a student at Valley Forge Middle School and Conestoga High School. She majored in fine arts and video production at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and graduated in 2006 with a B.F.A. in Fine Arts.While at MICA, she studied stand-up comedy for one year with poet Jeremy Sigler, having transferred for a term to take acting classes at Emerson College.