Rekha Shankar
Biography
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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Full filmography
- Hacks (2021) as Victoria
- Dimension 20 (2018) as Maggie
- Dimension 20 (2018) as Daisy D’umpstaire
- Dimension 20 (2018) as Katja Cleaver
- Dimension 20 (2018) as Usha Rao / G13
- After Midnight (2024) as Self
- Game Changer (2019) as Self - Contestant
- Game Changer (2019) as Self (archive footage)
- Game Changer (2019) as Self - Jury Member
- Game Changer (2019) as Self - Contestant / Team 2 Car Wash
- Game Changer (2019) as Self - Guard
- Digman! (2023) as Jaya (voice)
- Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (2026) as DoT (voice)
- Um, Actually... (2018) as Self - Contestant
- Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom (2018) as Maximillian Chungus
- Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom (2018) as Susanne Pershing
- Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom (2018) as Scrum Tooterscoots
- Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom (2018) as Potato
- Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom (2018) as Billabong Thorton
- Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom (2018) as Toronto's Onfire
- Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom (2018) as P.P. Cocktail
- Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom (2018) as Felicity Almond
- Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom (2018) as Damp Probably
- Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom (2018) as Grizabella Grits