Cathryn Michon is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, actress, writer, blogger and stand-up comic.^[1][2][3][4] She has been featured at the Montreal Comedy Festival, the Toyota Comedy Festival and the Marshall’s Women in Comedy Festival.^[5]

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 (HarperCollins, July 2001), lead to a television hosting stint on AMC's similarly titled Grrl Genius at the Movies^[6] and a second novel entry titled The Grrl Genius Guide to Sex with Other People (St. Martin's Press, January 2004), all garnering positive receptions nationwide.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Her television screenwriting credits include Designing Women, China Beach, Sisters, South Park and Diagnosis Murder. She performed at Chicago’s The Second City,^[11] 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.^{[citation needed]}

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 US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado.^[12] Other projects include the 2014 film Muffin Top: A Love Story, in which she starred, wrote and directed, the 2017 film A Dog's Purpose and the upcoming film A Dog's Journey, both of which she co-wrote.^[13]

Michon wrote columns for iVillage.com ^[14] and has a blog on that same site entitled "Adventures of a Grrl Genius" ^[15]