Rekha Shankar
Known for: Acting
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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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Filmography
9 movies · 38 TV shows, newest first
5.5
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
2026
10.0
Mountain Friends
2025
4.5
Parlor Room
2025
NR
Te Seguiré a la Oscuridad
2025
NR
Katie and Erika Throw The Perfect (Valentine’s Day) Party
2025
NR
The Candlenights 2024 Special
2024
NR
Nobody Asked
2024
6.0
Gastronauts
2024
7.0
Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson
2024
6.7
Smartypants
2024
5.5
After Midnight
2024
7.8
Very Important People
2023
NR
Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill!
2023
6.2
Digman!
2023
NR
Untitled Improv Project
2022
NR
Phoning It In
2022
7.5
Dirty Laundry
2022
4.8
Grand Crew
2021
7.5
Hacks
2021
7.3
Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun
2020
NR
Erotic Clubhouse
2020
8.8
Dimension 20's Adventuring Party
2020
NR
Where in the Eff is Sarah Cincinnati?
2019
8.0
Ultramechatron Team Go!
2019
5.9
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
2019
8.4
Game Changer
2019
2.0
Gods of Food
2019
6.0
Kingpin Katie
2019
NR
Troopers: Rise of the Budget
2019
NR
Downbeat
2019
NR
The Rank Room
2019
6.7
Total Forgiveness
2019
8.2
WTF 101
2019
NR
Erotic Book Club
2018
NR
Adventuring Academy
2018
NR
Ultramechatron Team Go!: The Web Series
2018
8.8
Um, Actually...
2018
7.7
Cartoon Hell
2018
9.1
Dimension 20
2018
NR
The Rank Room: The Web Series
2018
8.8
Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom
2018
NR
A Message From the CEO
2018
5.2
Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone
2017
NR
Board AF
2016
7.7
Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall
2013NR
Vidhya's Guide to the Afterlife
—NR
Best Friends Forever
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