Annabelle Gurwitch

Annabelle Gurwitch has been a hostess on television and films for the past ten years. She has hosted Dinner and a Movie, and is also an advocate for secular and environmental questions. Annabelle Gurwitch was a critically-acclaimed actress and New York Times Bestseller Author. Her memoirs were published. You said Tomato But I Said Shut Up! that was as well part of a Showtime Comedy Special. Gurwitch is well known for her long tenure as host of TBS Dinner & a Movie. She has also appeared on TV shows like Better Things Boston Legal Seinfeld Dexter Murphy Brown. The shows she has appeared on regularly are on PBS Newhour Real Time Bill Maher and NPR. She also writes op eds which appear in the New York Times WSJ The Hollywood Reporter satires as well in The New Yorker & McSweeneys. Her work as an actress on stage has earned her place in the annual critics Top Ten performances of the year in both The New York and Los Angeles Times. Annabelle is a wise lady who imparts her knowledge about aging and ways to laugh at it in our youth-driven society. She has performed this acclaimed piece at various theater festivals across all over the world, including as well as at the 92nd St Y Prevention Magazine AARP conventions and ladies nights for women's clubs across the country. Annabelle talks about the insanity and value of family. the families we are born into as well as the tribes that we choose to belong to. 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 to redeem the meaning of the past, and to set the stage for our future. The lectures include those at the George Washington University Watermark Conference for Women Literary Fests and performance art centers. On PBS News Hour, she offers her perspective of binge-watching or reading. You can see what her side of the argument is on.