Annabelle Gurwitch

Annabelle Gurwitch is an American writer, comedian and TV host most recognizable from her stint as hostess on Dinner and a Movie on TBS and activist in religious humanism and environmental concerns. Annabelle Gurwitch was a critically-acclaimed actress and New York Times Bestseller Author. She penned her memoirs You said Tomato But I Said Shut Up! The book was also featured on a Showtime Comedy Special. Gurwitch was a long-time host on the TBS show Dinner & a Movie and television viewers remember her memorable appearances on shows such as Better Things Boston Legal Seinfeld Dexter Murphy Brown as well as hosting the series on sustainability WA$TED which airs on The Planet Green Network. Gurwitch is a regular host in PBS Newhour Real Time With Bill Maher, NPR and writes op-eds and satires for The New York Times WSJ The Hollywood Reporter in addition to the satires and opinion pieces for The New Yorker. The work she does as an actor on stage has earned her inclusion in the annual list of critics' Best Ten Best Performances of the Year in the both The New York and Los Angeles Times. Annabelle provides a humorous and insightful perspective on the challenges of aging in our modern-day youth-focused world. Her material that she's been performing has been praised and is presented at numerous theater festivals, AARP conventions, 92nd St Y Prevention Magazines as well as evenings for ladies with female groups across the nation. Annabelle speaks about the importance and sanity of families, the ones we're born into, and the tribes we chose to belong. She has spoken to audiences all ages at events like the Now Generation Women's Philanthropy of Phoenix, GOOGLE talks, The Skirball Center for the Arts, and the Rancho Mirage Writers Conference. Gurwitch discusses how memoir can help us uncover, reclaim and gain meaning in the past. The book also offers direction for our lives. Professor Gurwitch has given talks and lectures in her lecture series at the George Washington University Watermark Conference for Women, centers for performing arts as well as literary festivals. If you'd like to learn her thoughts, you can listen to the PBS News Hour. She offers an IMHO perspective on watching movies versus reading.