Abbi Jacobson is starring as baseball catcher Carson Shaw in the show “A League of Their Own”, which brings out her insecure, messy, leading personality. The show is set to arrive in two days, on August 12, on Amazon Prime Video.
“Carson, a talented, anxious woman, becomes the team’s de facto leader. As a creator and executive producer, as well as the series’s, Jacobson led a team, too, onscreen and off,” NY Times reporter Alexis Soloski wrote.
“A League of Their Own” was inspired by Penny Marshall’s original film, where a professional all-female baseball league is founded in the Midwest with unlikely members. Along the way, Jacobson wove her own ideas about leadership and equality into the show, celebrating a range of women’s experiences.
Jacobson was raised in a Philadelphia suburb and Reform Jewish household with an older sibling. She was very athletic throughout her childhood, playing softball, basketball, and travel soccer. Eventually, she gave those sports up for jam bands and cigarettes.
She attended art school, later moved to New York to pursue her career as a dramatic actress, then became interested in comedy through improvisation classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade. She and Ilana Glazer originally wanted to join a house improv team; ultimately they created “Broad City” after being rejected by every house they applied for.
Unlike the comedy show “Broad City” – where Jacobson rose to leadership “more or less by accident”, as the NY Times puts it – on “A League of Their Own”, it is explicitly stated that Carson would lead the team right from the “get-go and with purpose”.
“The stories that I want to tell are about how I’m a messy person, and I’m insecure all the time. And then what if the most insecure, unsure person is the leader? What if the messy person gets to own herself?” Jacobson said.
For Jacobson, the show was “both a professional development seminar and a form of therapy”, the NY Times states. Through scriptwriting and playing a version of herself, she “emerged more confident, less anxious”. And gradually the show started to materialize, turning from a “half-hour comedy to an hourlong dramedy”; it found its co-stars: D’Arcy Carden as Greta, the team’s “glamour girl”; Roberta Colindrez playing Lupe, the team’s pitcher; Chanté Adams as Max, a Black baseball player looking to start her own team.
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“Carson, a talented, anxious woman, becomes the team’s de facto leader. As a creator and executive producer, as well as the series’s, Jacobson led a team, too, onscreen and off,” NY Times reporter Alexis Soloski wrote.
“A League of Their Own” was inspired by Penny Marshall’s original film, where a professional all-female baseball league is founded in the Midwest with unlikely members. Along the way, Jacobson wove her own ideas about leadership and equality into the show, celebrating a range of women’s experiences.
Jacobson was raised in a Philadelphia suburb and Reform Jewish household with an older sibling. She was very athletic throughout her childhood, playing softball, basketball, and travel soccer. Eventually, she gave those sports up for jam bands and cigarettes.
She attended art school, later moved to New York to pursue her career as a dramatic actress, then became interested in comedy through improvisation classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade. She and Ilana Glazer originally wanted to join a house improv team; ultimately they created “Broad City” after being rejected by every house they applied for.
Unlike the comedy show “Broad City” – where Jacobson rose to leadership “more or less by accident”, as the NY Times puts it – on “A League of Their Own”, it is explicitly stated that Carson would lead the team right from the “get-go and with purpose”.
“The stories that I want to tell are about how I’m a messy person, and I’m insecure all the time. And then what if the most insecure, unsure person is the leader? What if the messy person gets to own herself?” Jacobson said.
For Jacobson, the show was “both a professional development seminar and a form of therapy”, the NY Times states. Through scriptwriting and playing a version of herself, she “emerged more confident, less anxious”. And gradually the show started to materialize, turning from a “half-hour comedy to an hourlong dramedy”; it found its co-stars: D’Arcy Carden as Greta, the team’s “glamour girl”; Roberta Colindrez playing Lupe, the team’s pitcher; Chanté Adams as Max, a Black baseball player looking to start her own team.
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