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Rekha Shankar is from Philadelphia, PA. She’s an executive story editor for Phil Jackson’s 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. She’s received Vulture’s Comedians You Should Know 2024 and Just For Laughs: New Faces - Creators 2020. She is currently on Dropout.tv’s Gamechanger, Dimension 20, and is the host of Smartypants.
She can be seen in Between Two Ferns: The Movie, Hacks, Aunty Donna’s House of Fun, as Cupid in a Hershey’s commercial, and in a Zelle ad with Christina Ricci. She is also on stage every week at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre LA.
Other credits include Edinburgh Fringe Fest, 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.”
If you feel good about it, check out her videos and writing.
And for more, contact her!
