Bill Ratner

Archiving of an I Love Lucy Bit - Part Player

Grimms:
The Boy Who Set out to Learn What Fear Is
Of This Earth, But Not In it -
A Story of honoring the Dead in an unusual way
Awkward Adolescence

Bill Ratner is a seven-time winner of The Moth Story Slams in Los Angeles http://www.themoth.org/ and performs his stories in theaters, nightclubs, classrooms & festivals in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Brooklyn NY, Fertile Ground Festival/Portland OR, and Windsor Mountain International Festival/NH.

He told stories at the National Storytelling Network Conference in Los Angeles. His plays have been produced at Portland OR's Fertile Ground Theater Festival.

He is the TV cartoon voice of Flint on G.I. Joe, Robot Chicken, and Family Guy, plays the voice of Donnel Udina on computer games: Mass Effect I & II, and narrates movie trailers & documentaries.

He has taught voiceovers at the Screen Actors Guild Foundation in Hollywood and at the New York Times Center Theater for That's Voiceover.

His stories can be seen and read on

http://www.billratner.com/storytelling.html

Secrets of Voiceover Success: Sentient Publicatioins, Boulder, CO, USA, 2005.

His essays and short fiction are published in The Amor Fati, Pleiades, Southern Anthology, Spork, NiteBlade.com, National Cheng Kung Literary, Papier Maché Press, TV Marquee, and Coast Magazine.

http://www.youtube.com/billratner