ANNIE DINERMAN  is an award-winning Songwriter who tailors passionate, polished lyrics and music to spotlight the singer’s natural personality and onstage image.  Her writer’s voice is smart, funny and frank.  Annie's lyrics celebrate the power of traditional R&B:  words chosen for their punch, and the assertive power of repeating key phrases.  ANNIE DINERMAN  is a recipient of the Abe Olman Award from Songwriters Hall of Fame, and an Anna Sosenko Trust grant.  She is a freelance Entertainment writer for magazines and websites.

Annie's lyrics celebrate the power of traditional R&B:  words chosen for their punch, and the assertive, exciting power of repeating key phrases.  She is influenced by the music of the late Soul/Gospel singer Naomi Shelton (Daptone Records). Annie's father’s worked in advertising which gave him connections that made boxes of vinyl magically appear in the basement.  Her mother's family were tailors from Ukraine.  Annie was taught to value the skills of making things by hand. "Sewing and knitting - ripping out stitches to correct them - gave me a tolerance for rewriting lyrics and plays" she states.  "Some people don't have that tolerance, so they want to believe their first draft is a finished piece.  If you rewrite, you make the most of your chances to grow."

Annie writes plays about Jewish women who are working to carve out a niche while balancing Jewishness with mainstream America.  As a child, she ran home after school to watch black and white movies on TV.  Black and white Hollywood films influence her playwriting, and she employs devices like flashbacks and dream sequences.  Writing lyrics gives her dialogue a very particular kind of rhythm and emotional color.  She's currently seeking a staged reading for her full-length play, "Abra Wakes Up", a dramedy for five actors.   You can get the latest news on Annie's theater projects. Sign up for Annie's newsletter. (Top of screen: click HOME.  Scroll to the bottom of the page.)

Annie participates in Tuesdays@9, a weekly series of cold readings of new plays and unfinished plays, through Naked Angels (New York City).  She wrote three monologues which were presented in 2020 online events by Primary Stages (New York City) and has taken playwriting workshops through the company.

The only native Ohioan in a family of transplanted New Yorkers, Dinerman heard the artist’s call and moved to New York.  In June 2006, Annie Dinerman received the Abe Olman Award from Songwriters Hall of Fame, and made her debut at the Kerrville Folk Festival as a Music To Life songwriting contest finalist.  In 2007, Dinerman received an Anna Sosenko Assist Trust grant, and was presented in the NERFA DJ Showcase.  In 2008, she opened for The Refugees in the Hurdy Gurdy Folk Concert Series and debuted at Caffé Lena.  Annie Dinerman’s second independent CD, “Broken Cookies”, was produced by Steve Addabbo (Shawn Colvin, Suzanne Vega). 

Through DIY promotion, over 40 radio stations worldwide have played songs from “Broken Cookies,” including radio hosts across the U.S. and in Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Sweden. 

There are over 40 covers of Annie Dinerman’s songs, including “Child In Me Again”, recorded by Kathie Lee Gifford on her “Born For You” CD (2000).  The CD hit three Billboard charts, notably #1 on Billboard Heatseekers. 

In 2014, Annie fought ovarian cancer and won.  “Chemotherapy hijacks your emotions,” she has said, “it made me feel like crying often and unexpectedly, it made me constantly tired, and it interrupted my emotional connection to music.”  This made it hard, if not impossible, for her to write songs.  Going through a serious illness means “living in survival mode, going through huge changes in the way you see yourself, making it hard to write about the very things you used to know best.”  Please sign up for Annie’s email list or keep checking back here.  (Top of screen: click HOME.  Scroll to the bottom of the page.)  You'll be among the first to hear Annie's newest song demos.

AFFILIATIONS:  ASCAP, NARAS (voting member), New York Songwriters Collective; Naked Angels - Tuesdays@9

Annie Dinerman has over 40 records of her song by other artists.  She’s also recorded a CD and an EP of her original songs.

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