About
Bill Ratner is one of Los Angeles’ best known voice actors and a published author.
"Ratner is a master-builder at work... a man who shapes words out of airy nothing and commands them to speak."
— Jack Grapes, Last of the Outsiders, Chatwin Press
"Bill Ratner’s vocation is words. He knows what happens when they bump up against each other."
— Jill Alexander Essbaum, Would-Land, Cooper Dillon Books
Bill’s voice is heard world-wide on movie trailers, TV cartoons, computer games, documentaries, commercials, TV promos, and singing in his shower
PUBLISHED WRITING:
● Poetry collection: Fear of Fish (Alien Buddha Press)
● Poetry chapbook: To Decorate a Casket (Finishing Line Press)
● Book: Parenting For The Digital Age: The Truth Behind Media's Effect On Children And What To Do About It (Familius Books)
● Best of the Net Poetry Nominee (Lascaux Review)
● Bill's writing appears in Best Small Fictions 2021 (Sonder Press)
● Missouri Review (audio)
● Baltimore Review
● Chiron Review
● Feminine Collective
and other journals...
● 9-time Winner: The Moth StorySLAM Los Angeles
● 2-time Winner: Best of The Hollywood Fringe Extension Award for Solo Performance
● Top Six Audio Poetry Entry for The Plaza Audio Poetry Prize - U.K. 2024
● Live readings featured on National Public Radio’s Good Food, The Business, and KCRW’s Strangers
● Volunteer grief counselor
● Voice actor: “Donnell Udina” in Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3, “Flint” in G.I. Joe, Robot Chicken, Community, and Family Guy
● Poets & Writers Readings and Workshops Grant recipient
● Teaches voiceover for the Screen Actors Guild-AFTRA Foundation, and Poetry, Storytelling, and Media Awareness for the Los Angeles Unified School District
About
Bill Ratner is one of Los Angeles’ best known voice actors and a published author.
"Ratner is a master-builder at work... a man who shapes words out of airy nothing and commands them to speak."
— Jack Grapes, Last of the Outsiders, Chatwin Press
"Bill Ratner’s vocation is words. He knows what happens when they bump up against each other."
— Jill Alexander Essbaum, Would-Land, Cooper Dillon Books
Bill’s voice is heard world-wide on movie trailers, TV cartoons, computer games, documentaries, commercials, TV promos, and singing in his shower
● Poetry collection: Fear of Fish (Alien Buddha Press)
● Poetry chapbook: To Decorate a Casket (Finishing Line Press)
● Book: Parenting For The Digital Age: The Truth Behind Media's Effect On Children And What To Do About It (Familius Books)
● Best of the Net Poetry Nominee (Lascaux Review)
● Bill's writing appears in Best Small Fictions 2021 (Sonder Press)
● Missouri Review (audio)
● Baltimore Review
● Chiron Review
● Feminine Collective
and other journals...
● 9-time Winner: The Moth StorySLAM Los Angeles
● 2-time Winner: Best of The Hollywood Fringe Extension Award for Solo Performance
● Live readings featured on National Public Radio’s Good Food, The Business, and KCRW’s Strangers.
● Volunteer grief counselor
● Voice actor: “Donnell Udina” in Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3, “Flint” in G.I. Joe, Robot Chicken, Community, and Family Guy
● Poets & Writers Readings and Workshops Grant recipient
● Teaches voiceover for the Screen Actors Guild-AFTRA Foundation, and Poetry, Storytelling, and Media Awareness for the Los Angeles Unified School District
About
Bill Ratner is one of Los Angeles’ best known voice actors and a published author.
"Ratner is a master-builder at work... a man who shapes words out of airy nothing and commands them to speak."
— Jack Grapes, Last of the Outsiders, Chatwin Press
"Bill Ratner’s vocation is words. He knows what happens when they bump up against each other."
— Jill Alexander Essbaum, Would-Land, Cooper Dillon Books
Bill’s voice is heard world-wide on movie trailers, TV cartoons, computer games, documentaries, commercials, TV promos, and singing in his shower
● Poetry collection: Fear of Fish (Alien Buddha Press)
● Poetry chapbook: To Decorate a Casket (Finishing Line Press)
● Book: Parenting For The Digital Age: The Truth Behind Media's Effect On Children And What To Do About It (Familius Books)
● Best of the Net Poetry Nominee (Lascaux Review)
● Bill's writing appears in Best Small Fictions 2021 (Sonder Press)
● Missouri Review (audio)
● Baltimore Review
● Chiron Review
● Feminine Collective
and other journals...
● 9-time Winner:
The Moth StorySLAM
Los Angeles
● 2-time Winner: Best of The Hollywood Fringe Extension Award for Solo Performance
● Live readings featured on National Public Radio’s Good Food, The Business, and KCRW’s Strangers.
● Volunteer grief counselor
● Voice actor: “Donnell Udina” in Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3, “Flint” in G.I. Joe, Robot Chicken, Community, and Family Guy
● Poets & Writers Readings and Workshops Grant recipient
● Teaches voiceover for the Screen Actors Guild-AFTRA Foundation, and Poetry, Storytelling, and Media Awareness for the Los Angeles Unified School District