Cathryn Michon is a

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-based filmmaker, actress, writer, blogger and stand-up comic. She has been featured at the Montreal Comedy Festival, the Toyota Comedy Festival and the Marshall’s Women in Comedy Festival.

Career

Her touring stand-up performance ''The Grrl Genius Club'', as well as a subsequent novel sharing the same name, ''The Grrl Genius Guide to Life'' (

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, July 2001), lead to a television hosting stint on

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's similarly titled ''Grrl Genius at the Movies'' and a second novel entry titled ''The Grrl Genius Guide to Sex with Other People'' (

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, January 2004), all garnering positive receptions nationwide. Her television screenwriting credits include ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' South Park'' and ''

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''. She performed at

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’s

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, which led to multiple roles in regional theaters, Off Broadway and on TV. She has guest starred on television series on

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, HBO and AMC. She was the co-writer, co-producer, co-director, and star of the movie '' Cook Off!'', which completed principal photography in 2005 and premiered in February 2007 at the

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in Aspen, Colorado. Other projects include the 2014 film '' Muffin Top: A Love Story'', in which she starred, wrote and directed, the 2017 film ''

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'' and the upcoming film '' A Dog's Journey'', both of which she co-wrote.

Books

She is the author of the "Grrl Genius Guidebooks": ''The Grrl Genius Guide to Life'' (

, July 2001) and ''The Grrl Genius Guide to Sex with Other People'' (

, 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'' (2001) with

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Columns

Michon wrote columns for iVillage.com and has a

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on that same site entitled "Adventures of a Grrl Genius" iVillage Blogs: Tales of dating, mating, motherhood and more at iVillage

References

External links

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Official Website
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