Annabelle Gurwitch

Annabelle Gurwitch has been a hostess on television and films since Dinner and a Movie, she is also an activist for environmental and secular questions. Annabelle Gurwitch, a New York Times bestseller and an internationally acclaimed actor, was the New York Times's Bestselling author of her memoirs: Wherever You Are There Then I'm Sure You Made An Effort I Say Tomato You Say Fired I Say Shut up and was fired. The show also featured the Showtime Comedy Special. Gurwitch hosts Dinner & a Movie on TBS throughout the years. Television viewers will be familiar with her appearances on programs like Better Things Boston Legal Seinfeld Dexter Murphy Brown, and the sustainability program WA$TED which was shown on The Planet Green Network. Her regular TV appearances are on PBS Newhour Real Time Bill Maher as well as NPR. In addition, she writes op eds which are featured in the New York Times WSJ The Hollywood Reporter and satires in The New Yorker & McSweeneys. The New York Times, and also the Los Angeles Times have ranked her among their annual Top Ten performance of the year for her work on stage. Annabelle's insight and humorous perspective on aging in a culture that is obsessed with youth, are widely shared. The actress has performed the acclaimed material at theater festivals around the globe, and at the 1992nd St Y Prevention Magazine AARP Conventions as well as ladies night with women's organizations across the nation. Annabelle talks about the significance and insanity of families the ones we're born into and those we choose to join. The talks she gives to audience members of all ages comprise the following venues: Now Generation Women's Philanthropy of Phoenix GOOGLE Talks The Skirball Centre for the Arts and the Rancho Mirage Writers Conference. Gurwitch discusses how writing memoir can help us uncover, reclaim and gain an understanding of the past. It also provides the direction we need for our lives. Talks are offered at those at the George Washington University Watermark Conference for Women Literary Fests and performing art centers. If you want to know what she thinks, go to PBS News Hour. She offers an IMHO perspective on watching movies versus reading.