Annabelle (she/her) is a New York Times Bestselling author, actress and activist, and a two-time finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor Writing. Her most recent essay collection You're Leaving When? Adventures in Downward Mobility, was a 2021 New York Times Favorite Book for Healthy Living, a Good Morning America Must Read and a finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor Writing 2022. Her five books include the New York Times bestseller, I See You Made an Effort, her essays and satire appear in New York Times, Washington Post, The New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times. On screen, she's best known for her long running co-hosting of Dinner & a Movie on TBS. TV & film: appearances in over 50 shows including: Seinfeld, Boston Legal, Better Things, Michael Bay's Ambulance and Melvin Goes to Dinner directed by Bob Odenkirk which won the Audience Award at SXSW, but her heart will always belong to live performance. Theater: West Coast Premiere of David Greenspan’s Go Back to Where You Are at the Odyssey Theater, West Coast premiere of Wendy Macleod’s Women in Jeopardy! at the New Vic, World Premiere of Donald Margulies’ Coney Island Christmas at the Geffen Playhouse, West Coast Premiere of Our Lady of 121st Street with Laurence Fishburne at LA Theater Works, the 20th Anniversary Production of Uncommon Women and Others at 2ndStage, Lucille Lortel. Her work Off-B'way and in Los Angeles in the experimental playwright Murray Mednick’s “Joe and Betty” earned her inclusion in both the New York Times and Los Angeles Times’ annual round up of "Top Ten Performances of the Year in Theater." 

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Gurwitch performs stories and her solo shows at performing arts centers including dates with The Moth mainstage, House of Speak Easy at Joe’s Pub, The Edinburgh Theater Fest, Caroline's on Broadway, and the 92nd St Y and Symphony Space. Her theatrical adaptations of books You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up, Fired! and I See You Made an Effort have received dozens of national tours. Her Fired! documentary premiered as a Showtime Comedy Special, as well as receiving two mountings as radio plays on NPR. 

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She is at work on a new memoir which will land in the fall of 2025. Gurwitch is included in the essay collection edited by Zibby Owens, On Being Jewish Now, (October 1, Zibby Media) along with Joanna Rakoff and Amy Ephron with all proceeds going to Artists Against Antisemitism. She is writing a Hallmark movie, Friends for Life, for actress Andi MacDowell with playwright Neena Beber.

Gurwitch has been chronicling living with stage 4 lung cancer in the Washington Post since her out-of-the-blue diagnosis in 2020 which she revealed in a widely read op-ed The Corona Virus Saved My Life in the New York Times. She has given talks on survivorship issues, the importance of early screening, and bridging financial inequities in care, at scientific conferences, and events in Vienna, Singapore, Rome, and in cities around the US.

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NLTP debut.