Annie Lanzillotto (born June 1, 1963) is an American author, poet, songwriter, director, actor, podcaster, and performance artist.

Her book, L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir was published by State University of New York Press.

Her double flip book of poetry and prose, Hard Candy: Caregiving, Mourning, and Stage Light and Pitch Roll Yaw was published by Guernica Editions 2018.

She is the Artistic Director of Street Cry Inc. Lanzillotto is a member of Actors' Equity,[7] Dramatists Guild of America,[8] PEN America,[9] Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, Malìa: a Collective of Italian American Women,[10] The Italian American Writers Association (IAWA),[11] a blogger for i-Italy.com,[12] and has been a Writer-in-Residence at Hedgebrook,[13] Santa Fe Art Institute[14] and New Jersey City University.

Her father, Joseph Rocco Lanzillotto was an iceman, boiler repairman, and U.S. Marine who fought in World War II in the Battle of Okinawa.

Lanzillotto and her mother moved to Yonkers, New York, where Sister Raymond Aloysis trained and coached her into becoming an oratorical champion.

Lanzillotto attended Roosevelt High School in Yonkers where she began to create performance art during her pledges to sorority Sigma Phi Nu.

As a freshman at Brown University in 1981, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease and in 1982, created the Group Independent Study Project,[18] "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Cancer But Were Afraid To Ask."

In 1986, Lanzillotto received the Eva A. Mooar Award for the graduating Brown University female senior who had the most impact on the community.

Lanzillotto's vision of 146 Shirtwaist-Kites became a community art project memorializing the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

[26][27] was created to bridge the downtown avant-garde performance scene of New York City with the working class labor of butchers and bakers.

[28] Her community-based performance work at Arthur Avenue is featured in Molly O'Neill's film New York: A Taste of the City.