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