Cathryn Michon
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Cathryn Michon is an award winning actress, writer and stand-up comic. [1] She has been featured at the Montreal Comedy Festival, The Toyota Comedy Festival and the Marshall’s Women in Comedy Festival. Her stand-up show The Grrl Genius Club has played at the Hollywood Improv, Caroline's, and Madison Square Garden to sold-out audiences.
Michon is one of the few Hollywood writers to succeed in writing both comedy and drama for television, as well as feature films. Her TV writing credits include Designing Women, China Beach, Sisters, South Park and Diagnosis Murder. She performed at Chicago’s Second City, which led to multiple roles in regional theaters, Off Broadway and on TV. She has guest starred on television series on ABC, CBS, HBO and AMC.
She is the author of the "Grrl Genius Guidebooks": The Grrl Genius Guide to Life (HarperCollins, July 2001) and The Grrl Genius Guide to Sex with Other People (St. Martin's Press, January 2004.)
Michon is the author of Jane Austen’s Little Advice Book (co-written with Pam Norris) and co-wrote Eight Human Talents: The Yoga Way to Restore The Balance and Serenity Within You with Gurmukh.
From 2001-2002 she starred in her own TV series, Grrl Genius at the Movies on American Movie Classics. She is the co-writer, co-producer, and star of the movie Cook Off!, [2] which completed principal photography in 2005 and premiers at the 2007 HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen, March 2007.
Michon writes columns for iVillage.com [3] and has a blog on that same site entitled "Adventures of a Grrl Genius" [4]
