2022 Bombeck Workshop Keynoter Cathryn Michon

Cathryn Michon is a screenwriter — along with her husband, author W. Bruce Cameron — on all the films made from Cameron’s novels, including Amblin/Universal’s films A Dog’s Purpose and A Dog’s Journey and Sony Pictures’ A Dog’s Way Home. She is currently writing the screenplay for A Dog’s Promise for Amblin/Universal. She is also a film director: she produced, directed and co-wrote the Lionsgate film Cook Off!, in which she also stars alongside Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone and Wendy McLendon-Covey, and co-wrote and directed the film, Muffin Top: A Love Story, in which she stars with David Arquette, Marissa Jaret Winokur and Retta. 

Cathryn is a former member of Chicago’s Second City, a stand-up comic and the author of the nationally bestselling feminist memoir, The Grrl Genius Guide To Life.