Rekha Shankar profile
Actor profile

Rekha Shankar

Acting

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.”

8 Movies 33 TV Shows 41 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Digman! poster
Digman! 22nd March 2023 as Jaya (voice)
Hacks poster
Hacks 13th May 2021 as Victoria
WTF 101 poster
WTF 101 7th January 2019 as Sloth (voice)