Shelagh Ratner

A phenomenal improviser…
Shelagh Ratner is a  rising stand-up, hailed by Jeananne Garafalo…

Analytic and psychologically astute,  Shelagh Ratner takes American culture to its absurd limits with deft riffs on:

• Nicole Richie: author.  The end of civilization?
• McDonald’s cashing in on obesity with the McTrough.
• The perils of a winner-eats-all combination of Biggest Loser and “Survivor” in which the fattest person is eaten on an island on the season finale.

Ratner’s sharp, brainy comments are tempered by her warm connection to the audience.  Based in Los Angeles, she appears at The Improv and The Comedy Store.   As co-producer of a weekly show at Skinny’s Lounge, she hosts a few times a month.  Further afield, check out her fashion spoofs in Life and Style’s Style Slip-ups.

She recently wrote, directed and starred in We Got Spirit, an all-improvised mockumentary on NFL cheerleaders.

Ratner is the voice of AT&T Wireless and gives frequent talks to aspiring voice-over actors.

Back story, Professional and Personal

Shelagh Ratner trained at Groundlings East and she participated in several improv and sketch groups.  Other appearances include VH1′s Total Access.  Ratner contributed to Stories at the Moth where, given situation and characters, she incorporated highlights of every story told into an entirely improvised finale.

An unusually mobile childhood and youth – eleven moves before college, to and from Europe, South America and the East and West coast – shaped Ratner’s novel perspective on Stateside life. She relaxes with math histories and biographies but has yet to work Paul Erdos into her act.

Voiceover Demo

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