Annabelle Gurwitch

Annabelle Gurwitch is an American writer, comedian and TV host who is most well-known for her time as hostess for Dinner and a Movie on TBS and activist in environmental issues and secular humanism. Annabelle Gurwitch a New York Times best-selling writer, actress and critic in her autobiography, Wherever You Go Then They Are I see you made an Effort. You Say Tomato. I'm saying Shutup and Get Fired. This was also the Showtime Comedy Special. Gurwitch was the longest-running host of TBS's Dinner & a Movie and the public will be able to remember her unforgettable appearances on shows such as Better Things Boston Legal Seinfeld Dexter Murphy Brown as well as the host of the sustainability series WA$TED on The Planet Green Network. She is a regular guest for PBS Newhour Real Time with Bill Maher and on NPR in addition to writing Op-eds in the New York Times WSJ The Hollywood Reporter as well as satire for The New Yorker and McSweeeneys. The New York Times, and also the Los Angeles Times have ranked her among their top Ten shows of the year for her work on stage. Annabelle shares wisdom and her hilarious review of ageing within our teen-centric society. The actress has performed the acclaimed material at theater festivals around all over the world, including and at the 1992nd St Y Prevention Magazine AARP Conventions as well as ladies night for women's groups nationwide. Annabelle talks about the insanity and importance of family, the families we're born into as well as the tribes that we choose to join. She's spoken to crowds 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 employs memoirs to redeem the meaning of the past, and to set the stage for the future. Professor Gurwitch has given talks and seminars on The George Washington University Watermark Conference for Women, theatres, as well as literary festivals. On the PBS News Hour, she gives her opinion on binge-watching versus reading. You can see what side of that argument she chooses to take.