--- name: "Abbi Jacobson" canonical: "https://film.one/person/abbi-jacobson" roles: ["Director"] born: "1 February 1984" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T19:03:35.918729+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Abbi Jacobson Director. Born 1 February 1984 in Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Born:** 1 February 1984, Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA - **Active:** 2000–2014 - **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 directing - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 84 (1), 2010s 80 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbi_Jacobson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16730126, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3434305/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1325731 ## Coming up - *Tangles* (2027-01-20), as Sarah (voice) ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Broad City*](https://film.one/tv/broad-city.md) (80) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Abbi Jacobson > Abbi Jacobson built a comedy out of her own hesitations, and it is her writing and performing, more than the handful of episodes she has directed, that make *Broad City* what it is. Her directing has not yet been tested away from her own material. The joke that tells you what *Broad City* is arrives inside its first minute. Ilana's face fills a video call, and it takes a beat to work out what Lincoln is doing just out of frame. We laughed out loud, alone, and the reason was the manners of it: a filthy joke delivered as politely as a thank-you note. That is Abbi Jacobson's comedy in one shot, and it is worth saying at the start that she did not direct it. Her hand is in the writing, in the timing, and in Abbi herself, whom Jacobson plays as a woman who has read the sign and is going to walk through the door anyway. She and Ilana Glazer met at the Upright Citizens Brigade and made *Broad City* as a web series between 2009 and 2011 before bringing it to television on 22 January 2014. Fifty half-hour episodes followed across five seasons, with Jacobson as co-creator, writer, executive producer and performer. For three of those seasons it is as funny as anything of its kind, fast and filthy and unusually kind underneath; nobody is punished for wanting things. The last two seasons start telling us what they think, and it is in those two, the fourth and fifth, that Jacobson took the director's chair, for four episodes including *Witches* and *House-Sitting* (both 2017). We cannot honestly tell you those episodes look different from the ones around them, and that cuts both ways. The show's look and pace were set well before she directed any of it, in large part by Lucia Aniello, who directed many episodes and gave the series its habit of letting one small errand swallow a whole afternoon. Jacobson's episodes sit inside that house style rather than pushing against it, which is good manners in a director of television and makes them hard to judge as a director's work. She has said, "I tend to amplify things that I'm insecure about in my own life." That is the writer talking, and on the evidence the director exists to serve the writer. Since the series ended she has co-created, written and starred in *A League of Their Own* (2022), a period series drawn from the film, and done a good deal of voice work in animation, including *Disenchantment* and *The Mitchells vs. the Machines*. We have not reviewed those and will not pretend to. What we can say is that every directing credit she holds belongs to a project she also created, and the second half of *Broad City*, where all of them fall, is the half we liked less. So the honest position is this. We know what Jacobson is like on the page and on screen, and we would recommend the first three years of *Broad City* to anyone who has ever been broke in a city with a friend. Behind the camera she remains an open question, and the way to answer it is a script with somebody else's name on it. On the evidence of those early seasons, we would like her to try. ## Biography Abbi Jacobson is an American comedian, actress, writer and producer. She co-created, co-wrote and co-starred in the Comedy Central series *Broad City* (2014–2019) with Ilana Glazer, which originated as a web series. Jacobson studied fine arts and video production at the Maryland Institute College of Art, graduating in 2006, and later trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York, where she met Glazer. She has voiced characters in animated series including *Disenchantment* (2018–2023) as Princess Bean and *BoJack Horseman*, and co-created, wrote for and starred in the Amazon series *A League of Their Own* (2022) as Carson Shaw. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, jwa.org.* ## On Fi1m (2) ### Performed in (1) - *Curb Your Enthusiasm* (2000), Fi1m 84, as Diane — [page](https://film.one/tv/curb-your-enthusiasm.md) ### Directed (1) — the average rests on these - *Broad City* (2014), Fi1m 80, as Abbi Abrams — [page](https://film.one/tv/broad-city.md) ## Complete filmography (28) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Tangles* (2027), as Sarah (voice) - *Mating Season* (2026), series, as Summer (voice) - *Long Story Short* (2025), series, as Shira (voice) - *No Good Deed* (2024), series, as Leslie Fisher - *Interior Chinatown* (2024), series, as The Voice of Kleen Stik Commercial (voice) - *The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy* (2024), series, as (voice) - *Mae Martin: SAP* (2023), Director - *A League of Their Own* (2022), series, Carson Shaw, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator - *Dog Cop 7: The Final Chapter* (2021), as Dog Cop / Katie (voice) - *The Mitchells vs. the Machines* (2021), as Katie / Dog Cop (voice) - *Disenchantment* (2018), series, as Princess Bean (voice) - *6 Balloons* (2018), as Katie - *The Lego Ninjago Movie* (2017), as Nya (voice) - *Person to Person* (2017), as Claire - *The Master: A LEGO Ninjago Short* (2016), as Chicken (Voice) - *Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising* (2016), as Jessica Baiers - *Just for Laughs All Access - With Broad City* (2015), Acting - *Hack Into Broad City* (2014), series, as Abbi Abrams, Creator - *BoJack Horseman* (2014), series, as Emily (voice) — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/bojack-horseman.md) - *Intimate Semaphores* (2014), as Studio Mate - *High and Dry* (2014), as Studio Mate - *Broad City* (2014), series, Abbi Abrams, Writer, Director, Creator — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/broad-city.md) - *Lucas Bros. Moving Co.* (2013), series, as Sister Sister - *Special Things to Do* (2011), as Mary - *Bob's Burgers* (2011), series, as Megan (voice) - *Broad City: The Web Series* (2010), series, Abbi, Creator, Writer - *Curb Your Enthusiasm* (2000), series, as Diane — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/curb-your-enthusiasm.md) - *The Mitchells vs. the Mitchells*, as Katie (voice) ## Gallery - ![Abbi Jacobson at the opening night of "All Out" on Broadway, December 2025](https://film.one/media/person/391334/gallery-1de730d869e0.jpg) Abbi Jacobson at the opening night of "All Out" on Broadway, December 2025 — PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/AbbiJacobson-byPhilipRomano.jpg/1280px-AbbiJacobson-byPhilipRomano.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Marie Claire Editor in Chief Anne Fulenwider interviews Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer on the YP Stage on Day 1 of Internet Week New York May 18, 2 (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/391334/gallery-9d363b912575.jpg) Marie Claire Editor in Chief Anne Fulenwider interviews Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer on the YP Stage on Day 1 of Internet Week New York May 18, 2 (2015) — Internet Week New York, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Abbi_Jacobson_and_Ilana_Glazer_at_Internet_Week_01.jpg/1280px-Abbi_Jacobson_and_Ilana_Glazer_at_Internet_Week_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Marie Claire Editor in Chief Anne Fulenwider interviews Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer on the YP Stage on Day 1 of Internet Week New York May 18, 2 (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/391334/gallery-d4f3599dca6a.jpg) Marie Claire Editor in Chief Anne Fulenwider interviews Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer on the YP Stage on Day 1 of Internet Week New York May 18, 2 (2015) — Internet Week New York, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Abbi_Jacobson_and_Ilana_Glazer_at_Internet_Week_03.jpg/1280px-Abbi_Jacobson_and_Ilana_Glazer_at_Internet_Week_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Marie Claire Editor in Chief Anne Fulenwider interviews Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer on the YP Stage on Day 1 of Internet Week New York May 18, 2 (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/391334/gallery-6a2ca60850f7.jpg) Marie Claire Editor in Chief Anne Fulenwider interviews Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer on the YP Stage on Day 1 of Internet Week New York May 18, 2 (2015) — Internet Week New York, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Abbi_Jacobson_and_Ilana_Glazer_at_Internet_Week_04.jpg/1280px-Abbi_Jacobson_and_Ilana_Glazer_at_Internet_Week_04.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Marie Claire Editor in Chief Anne Fulenwider interviews Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer on the YP Stage on Day 1 of Internet Week New York May 18, 2 (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/391334/gallery-30f2cf505b09.jpg) Marie Claire Editor in Chief Anne Fulenwider interviews Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer on the YP Stage on Day 1 of Internet Week New York May 18, 2 (2015) — Internet Week New York, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Abbi_Jacobson_and_Ilana_Glazer_at_Internet_Week_05.jpg/1280px-Abbi_Jacobson_and_Ilana_Glazer_at_Internet_Week_05.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Marie Claire Editor in Chief Anne Fulenwider interviews Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer on the YP Stage on Day 1 of Internet Week New York May 18, 2 (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/391334/gallery-f10c79ea62b7.jpg) Marie Claire Editor in Chief Anne Fulenwider interviews Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer on the YP Stage on Day 1 of Internet Week New York May 18, 2 (2015) — Internet Week New York, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Abbi_Jacobson_and_Ilana_Glazer_at_Internet_Week_06.jpg/1280px-Abbi_Jacobson_and_Ilana_Glazer_at_Internet_Week_06.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won - Out100 2022: Out100 (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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