Improv + Hosting
Hosting
Annie-Sage Whitehurst has hosted pre-taped, live, and on-location segments for radio, podcasts, red carpets, film festivals, comedy shows, benefits, and more.
Career peak: Primetime radio shows on WOZQ 91.9fm Northampton.
Improv
As an improviser, she has performed and produced a wide range of sold-out shows from family-friendly to late-night, from short-form games to long-form dramatic improv at venues across Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn.
She performs and produces shows that highlight experimental, narrative, and multi-media improvisational performance, including :
The monthly satirical screenwriting workshop The Little Pitchers Presents with Rory Scholl at Q. E. D (famously not featuring local comic Gary Gulman).
At QED in 2026!
Experimental Improv
Kitten Solloway Has 10 Minutes - an improvised solo performance with original character (read more at the "Kitten Solloway" tab above.
Little Fish - a two-person improv team made up of Annie-Sage Whitehurst and improviser/writer Michelle Drozdick (Message in a Bottle).
Dramatic Improv
Collaborations with Improv Repetory Theater Ensemble
Funding member of The Last Neighbors, The Armory Theatre's first dramatic improv House Team.
Annie-Sage is a TWOPROV SHOWDOWN Winner and Twoprov Tournament Semifinalist. She is a past Armory Comedy House Team Member and, pre-lockdown, regular performer at The People's Improv Theatre with the sold-out "Manic Attack Variety Hour" (RIP)
Character: "Kitten Solloway"
Poor Kitten's had A YEAR.
Kitten Solloway (infamously known as "Hollywood's Most Available Ingenue") is an improvised character currently being developed into a stand-alone performance. Annie-Sage has appeared in-character to host and perform at Asylum NYC, Q.E.D (with Maggie Metnick, and The Brick Theatre.
This one-woman show imagines a borsch tbelt Sunset Boulevard by way of Walter Benjamin and Bill Irwin, juxtaposing ridiculous physical comedy with larger existential themes of performative identity, memory and intimacy.
“Keepin’ Cozy with Kitten” is an in-person adaptation of the darkly comic, popular quarantine livestream, “Keepin’ Cozy with Kitten Solloway” (created and performed by Annie-Sage Whitehurst on @SociallyDistantImprov with 50 weekly episodes and an average of +1K engagements per video).
Quarantine Livestreams
Annie-Sage was a regular performer on @sociallydistantimprov with multiple weekly shows, including "Keepin' Cozy with Kitten," an improvised character show and Meatpalace, a two-person "POV-prov" improv team with Sal Joseph.