Annabelle Gurwitch

Annabelle Gurwitch is an American comedian, author and television host best known for her stint as hostess on Dinner and a Movie on TBS as well as an activist with the environment and secular humanism. Annabelle Gurwitch was a critically-acclaimed actor, as well as a New York Times Bestseller Author. She wrote the memoirs You Didn't Say Tomato But I Said Shut Up! that was as well a Showtime Comedy Special. Gurwitch was the host of Dinner & a Movie on TBS throughout the years. Television viewers are likely to be familiar with her appearances on programs like Better Things Boston Legal Seinfeld Dexter Murphy Brown, and WA$TED, a sustainability show that was shown through The Planet Green Network. She makes regular appearances on PBS Newhour Real Time with Bill Maher and on NPR in addition to writing op-eds for New York Times WSJ The Hollywood Reporter and satire pieces for The New Yorker and McSweeeneys. The actress has been praised by reviewers for her work on the stage in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. Annabelle gives a funny and insightful account of growing older in today's youth-oriented world. Her acclaimed performance material has been performed in theater festivals worldwide as well as at the 1992 St Y Prevention Magazine AARP conferences and women groups across the nation. Annabelle addresses audiences on families and their importance. The tribes that we grow up and the ones into which we decide to fit. She's spoken to crowds of every age at the Now Generation Women's Philanthropy of Phoenix, GOOGLE talks, The Skirball Centre for the Arts, and the Rancho Mirage Writers Conference. Gurwitch employs memoirs as a way to reclaim the significance of our history and put us on a path for our future. Literary festivals and the performing arts centers include George Washington University Watermark Conference for Women. In the PBS News Hour, she offers her perspective on binge-watching versus reading. You can see what her side of the argument takes.