Catheryn J. Brockett, PSP*
A Short History
Dysfunctional Family Funbook
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Catheryn is a writer, actor and comedian who has performed theatre, improv and sketch comedy in New York and Los Angeles.  She has read her original essays at spoken word shows all over Los Angeles including Wordarama, Beyond Baroque and the very hip sit n spin at Comedy Central Stage.
She has appeared in television shows including Desperate Housewives, True Blood, and been in over a dozen commercials.  She is particularly proud to have worked with Sydney Pollack (Dell), Spike Lee (KMart), John Cleese (Kaupthing Bank) and a very surly kangaroo (Hoover).
"We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow-worm."  Winston Churchill
*  Professional Smarty Pants - any advice given in her books or websites - or outta mouth, while probably very smart,
is her very own personal opinion and not intended to replace therapy or professional advice.
Originally from the suburbs of Maryland, Catheryn always wanted to be in show business but made every attempt to educate herself out of a career choice that guaranteed a waitressing job.  She attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School's prestigious science and technology program and graduated magna cum laude from St. Mary's College with degrees in theatre and history.  All of this academic excellence provided her with very little in the way of life skills and erased none of her desire to be on television.
She lives in Los Angeles and is intent on making the world a better place one chuckle at a time.
After several years of waitressing, doing theatre and working in the artistic hotbed of industrial and government films in the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area she headed to the Big Apple with her SAG card.  A couple of years doing more theatre, dressing all in black, living on diet coke (and okay - waitressing) made her look west - to Hollywood.  Where she lived happily ever after.
Well, almost.  While Los Angeles provided her with some of the commercial success she had always wanted, she discovered it was the storytelling aspect of popular entertainment that really drew her in, the way that stories help bring people together, the way the stories provide relief by a sharing our universal trials and tribulations.  To quote Muriel Rukeyeser, "The universe is made of stories, not atoms." 
Hand in hand with that she learned that humor also has that capacity to unite as well uplift - to quote Martin Luther King, "laughter molds a creative optimism." (She also learned loves to quote people.)
This was about the time things started getting tough her family - these two ideas seemed to work quite well together and she found herself doing stand up and personal essays about a subject she needed a little universal understanding a humor about - her relationship with her dysfunctional family!  And thus The Dysfunctional Family Funbook was born - hatched from a time she was going through a personal break up with her family.

She is currently writing more funbooks and survival guides and creating minikits for life's hard times.  She is also workshopping her show about her brain surgery.   Did I forget to mention the brain surgery?