Rekha Shankar

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.”

Filmography (41 Appearances)

Best Friends Forever

Vidhya's Guide to the Afterlife

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

Smosh Presents: We're All Gonna Die

Mountain Friends

Parlor Room

Te Seguiré a la Oscuridad

The Candlenights 2024 Special

Nobody Asked

Gastronauts

Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson

Smartypants

After Midnight

Very Important People

Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill!

Digman!

Phoning It In

Dirty Laundry

Hacks

Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun

Erotic Clubhouse

Dimension 20's Adventuring Party

Where in the Eff is Sarah Cincinnati?

Ultramechatron Team Go!

Between Two Ferns: The Movie

Game Changer

Gods of Food

Kingpin Katie

Downbeat

The Rank Room

Total Forgiveness

WTF 101

Erotic Book Club

Adventuring Academy

Ultramechatron Team Go!: The Web Series

Um, Actually...

Cartoon Hell

Dimension 20

The Rank Room: The Web Series

Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom

Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone

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