Phone: 213 437 4414
E-mail: anawalt@usc.edu
Office Hours: Mondays, after 4:40 p.m.

Sasha Anawalt is a journalism lecturer and director of USC Annenberg Arts Journalism Programs, including the Masters degree in Specialized Journalism (The Arts). Anawalt also directs the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program and the NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater. In October 2009, she directed and produced with Douglas McLennan the first-ever National Summit on Arts Journalism, a one-day conference at USC that was equal parts online event to web event to live event.  She wrote the best-selling cultural biography, “The Joffrey Ballet: Robert Joffrey and the Making of an American Dance Company” (Scribner, 1996). Anawalt  was dance critic for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, LA Weekly and for nearly a decade contributed "Dance Notes" to KCRW, National Public Radio in Santa Monica. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, SoHo Weekly News, Montreal Gazette, Dance Magazine, TV Guide, Wall Street Journal (WSJ.com), KUSC and MSNBC-online sites. Anawalt served on the 2006 and 2007 Pulitzer Prize Committee juries for criticism. A native of New York City and a graduate of Barnard College, Anawalt serves on the board of the Los Angeles Stage Alliance and lives in Pasadena with her husband; they have three children.