Rekha Shankar is an executive story editor for Grand Crew (NBC) and for Andy Samberg and Neil Campbell's Digman! (Comedy Central). She was also a staff writer for Animaniacs (Hulu) and Head Writer for CollegeHumor's Hardly Working series. In 2020 she was selected for Just For Laughs: New Faces - Creators. She can be seen in Between Two Ferns: The Movie, Hacks, Aunty Donna’s House of Fun, and as Cupid in a Hershey’s commercial. She is also on stage every week at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre LA. Other credits include The New Yorker, ClickHole, Reductress, Kal Penn Approves This Message, Slamdance, and being a national punner. One of her New Yorker pieces about how recipes have way too much backstory up top even went “viral.”
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Maclunkey Treasure Island | Death Star Intercom / Intercom / Red Nine / Stormtrooper 1 / Stormtrooper 2 / Gold Five | 2025-03-15 |
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Te Seguiré a la Oscuridad | Leah | 2025-03-08 |
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Mountain Friends | 2025-06-10 | |
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Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson | Rekha Shankar | 2024-08-23 |
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Mustafar Takes Los Angeles | Yoda | 2024-11-16 |
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The Candlenights 2024 Special | Self | 2024-12-14 |
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Between Two Ferns: The Movie | Gaya | 2019-09-20 |
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Best Friends Forever | ||
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Vidhya's Guide to the Afterlife | Vidhya |