TheWrap magazine: "Even though I'm on a comedy, Quinta [Brunson] has made it so I am showing all the things that I can do," ...

Tough and sassy Ava Coleman was put through the wringer in Season 4 of Abbott Elementary, but Janelle James can look back at her onscreen persona and confidently say, "They kind of threw everything at ...

James has carved out her space in comedy with her sharp voice, and sincere prescence. As Ava Coleman — the bold, messy, and meme-worthy principal of ABC’s “Abbott Elementary” — James has ...

James has been nominated every year she's played Principal Ava Coleman — without a win. We dig into her Emmy statistics to ...

[This story contains spoilers from episodes 18 and 19 of season four of Abbott Elementary.] If you’re caught up on the latest episodes of Abbott Elementary, you know principal Ava Coleman is out ...

Ava Coleman is so much more than just the Abbott Elementary principal. She has said some of the show’s most iconic one-liners and has captivated fans’ hearts with her humor, capriciousness ...

Janelle James is not Ava Coleman. As the "Abbott Elementary" star and Screen Actors Guild nominee prepares to resume doing stand-up on a limited basis, she's hoping that more people will realize that.

Janelle James plays principal Ava Coleman on Abbott Elementary. Brunson admits it makes meetings weird when she refers to Ava, since she just hired a writer with the same name to write for Abbott ...

The fourth season of Quinta Brunson’s Emmy-winning “Abbott Elementary” is all about Ava Coleman, the incompetent, self-obsessed school principal played by Janelle James. For the first time ...