Portrait of Rekha Shankar

Rekha Shankar

Acting

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.”

Filmography

2025
2024
Nobody Asked

as Self - Host

2024
Gastronauts

as Self - Judge

2024
Smartypants

as Self - Host

2024
2023
Very Important People

as Mother Hot Dog

2022
2022
Dirty Laundry

as Self - Guest

2021
Hacks

as Victoria

2020
Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun

as Woman At Fight / SWAT SWAT

2020
Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun

as Neighbour / Ginger / Woman at Fight / SWAT SWAT

2020
Erotic Clubhouse

as Self - Host

2019
Ultramechatron Team Go!

as Sarah / Crab Sarah (voice) / Puppet Sarah (voice)

2019
Game Changer

as Self - Contestant

2019
Game Changer

as Self (archive footage)

2019
Game Changer

as Self - Jury Member

2019
Game Changer

as Self - Contestant / Team 2 Car Wash

2019
Game Changer

as Self - Guard

2019
Gods of Food

as Customer 1

2019
Kingpin Katie

as Rekha Shankar

2019
Downbeat

as Olivia

2019
2019
WTF 101

as Sloth (voice)

2018
Erotic Book Club

as Self - Host

2018
Um, Actually...

as Self - Contestant

2018
Cartoon Hell

as Womantis (voice)

2018
Cartoon Hell

as Aggmin (voice)

2018
Cartoon Hell

as Mel (voice)

2018
Cartoon Hell

as Camilla (voice)

2018
Cartoon Hell

as Greta (voice)

2018
Cartoon Hell

as Hashley (voice)

2018
Cartoon Hell

as Tammy / Keena Left (voice)

2018
Cartoon Hell

as Mekena (voice)

2018
Cartoon Hell

as Goblina (voice)

2018
Cartoon Hell

as Aggmin / Joan (voice)

2018
Dimension 20

as Maggie

2018
Dimension 20

as Daisy D’umpstaire

2018
Dimension 20

as Katja Cleaver

2018
Dimension 20

as Usha Rao / G13

2018
2018
2018
2018
2018
Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom

as Maximillian Chungus

2018
2018
2018