Bill Ratner is a published author, American voice actor, and solo performance artist. His personal essays are published in: The Baltimore Review, Blue Lake Review and The Missouri Review. Ratner?s performances of his personal essays are featured on KCRW?s Strangers, and National Public Radio's The Business. and Good Food. He tours nationally for storytelling conferences, and festivals, is a regular competitor in The Moth Story Slams in Los Angeles, is an eight-time Moth StorySLAM Winner, a National Storytelling Festival Story Slam teller-Jonesborough TN, a National Storytelling Network storyteller. He has been a Los Angeles Unified School storyteller since 1993. He is a contributing author of the book Secrets of Voiceover Success. He is a two-time winner of "Best of the Hollywood Fringe Festival Extension" - Solo Category for "Bobbywood: Whatever Happened to Bobby the Bellboy?" in 2013 and Voices in my Head: A Life. He is a member of Actors Equity Association, and Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of TV & Radio Artists where he teaches voiceovers, and chairs the Hollywood SAG-AFTRA TV Promo & Movie Trailer Announcers Caucus. 

February 25th, 1947 in Saint Paul (Age 77)