Annabelle Gurwitch

Annabelle Gurwitch has been a hostess on television and films since Dinner and a Movie, as well as an active advocate for secular and environmental questions. Annabelle Gurwitch, a New York Times bestseller and highly acclaimed actress, is the best-selling New York Times Author of her memoirs In the Place You Are Then I'm Sure It was a long time ago that you tried to Say Tomato You Say Fired I Speak Shut Up And Fired. It was also a Showtime Comedy Special. Gurwitch is best known for her lengthy stint as host of TBS Dinner & a Movie. She has also appeared in shows like Better Things Boston Legal Seinfeld Dexter Murphy Brown. She is a regular guest in 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. As an actress performing on stage, her work has earned her a place among the critics' Top Ten performances for the year in The New York Times as well as the Los Angeles Times. Annabelle imparts her wisdom as well as her hilarious perspective on the process of aging within our society which is so centered on youth. She has spoken about this subject for audiences all over the world, including her appearance at the audience at the 92nd St Y Prevention Magazine, AARP and Women's Nights. Annabelle talks about the significance and insanity of family members, both those we're born into, and those we choose to join. She has spoken to people of everyone of any age at events such as the Now Generation Women's Philanthropy of Phoenix GOOGLETalks the Skirball for the Arts the Rancho Mirage Writers Conference. Gurwitch speaks about how memoir can help us uncover, reclaim and gain significance in our past. It also provides the direction we need for our lives. Professor Gurwitch has given talks and lecture in the George Washington University Watermark Conference for Women and the theatres, as well as literary festivals. Check out her PBS News Hour IMHO about watching versus reading, and then you'll have the ability to figure out where she's at.