Early life and education
Titelman earned a B.A. from Bard College. She subsequently trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles, which became a home base for much of her early comedy work.1
Career
Television
Titelman built a sustained television presence across comedy and drama. Her earliest recurring credit was on Life on a Stick (Fox, 2005). She went on to guest in Cold Case (CBS), Veronica Mars (UPN/CW), Parks and Recreation (NBC), Wilfred (FX), and New Girl (Fox).45 Her most prominent ongoing television role was as a regular roundtable panelist on Chelsea Lately (E!), where she became a recognizable face of the show's rotating ensemble. She appeared in Comedy Central's Don't Tell My Mother! (2011) and in ensemble roles in the TruTV pilot Shady Neighbors and Paul Feig's unaired pilot Girl Coders.4
Film
Her film work spans comedy, drama, and experimental forms. Early credits include American Pie Presents: Band Camp (2005) and The Good Humor Man (2005). She starred in Frank and Cindy (2007).4 In 2019 she starred as Susan in director Steve Collins's absurdist comedy I've Got Issues, alongside Macon Blair, Maria Thayer, and Jim Gaffigan; the film premiered at the Austin Film Festival and earned a New York Times Critic's Pick designation.1
In 2025 she wrote, directed, and produced Remember Me, a short film drawn from her experience moving back to her childhood home to help care for her father, who was living with dementia.6 Photographed by cinematographer Steve Collins,7 the film premiered in the Short Film Competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.2
Titelman has an active parallel career in experimental theater and live performance. Her solo show Lemons Are for Emergencies Only debuted in her own Los Angeles kitchen in 2006 and traveled to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2007.1 Her play In Tubes was produced at HERE Arts Center in New York City.1 Her solo show Filthy was performed at the experimental Los Angeles venue Machine Project in 2015, and she has been developing a series based on it.1 In 2024 she led the writing workshop Idiot.
She performs stand-up nationally, including at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival and SF SketchFest, and filmed a live set for Seeso's The Guest List. She is a member of the Wet the Hippo comedy collective, which earned a Best Comedy nomination at the L.A. Fringe Festival. She received a nomination for the Andy Kaufman Award for her experimental comedy work,1 and LA Weekly named her one of its "Eight L.A. Artists and Art-World Figures to Watch" in 2016.8
Writing
Titelman's written work extends beyond performance: she contributed to the anthology True Tales of Lust and Love (Counterpoint Press) and co-wrote an original series for Warner Bros.'s Blue Ribbon studio.1
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
Titelman was cast as Shelby Blutarsky, a reporter for 8 WDCU television in New York, in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. The scene was cut from the theatrical release but remains in the film's end credits where Titelman is listed as "News Correspondent."3
In the deleted sequence, Shelby reports live from Queens, standing in front of Nadeem Razmaadi's apartment building, on a freak summer storm. She relays eyewitness accounts of a ten-foot cloaked figure asking for someone called the "Fire Master," and describes unexplained hail and snow moving across the city from Coney Island to Midtown Manhattan.
The character's surname is a reference to John "Bluto" Blutarsky, the John Belushi character in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978).
