Annie Lanzillotto
Annie Rachele Lanzillotto is an American author, poet, cantastoria, songwriter, and performance-artist whose stage presence has been called riveting and volcanic. She was born in the Bronx and is internationally known for her raw and authentic New York voice and profound memoir work which casts light onto LGBTQ+ lives, domestic violence, intergenerational trauma, and post-war CPTSD. She is a long-term survivor of teenage Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, and advocates for disability equality.
Lanzillotto has performed at City Lore, The Kitchen, Franklin Furnace, Dixon Place, The Guggenheim Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Museum of the City of New York, The Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and multiple venues in Italy and Ireland. She is the author of four books and has contributed chapters to two New Village Press books—Works of Heart and Talking to the Girls.