
ROBYN OKRANT BIOGRAPHY
Robyn Okrant is a writer, director, performer, and yoga teacher. She is the author of LIVING OPRAH: My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk (Center Street, 2010).
She has created, written, and directed many original pieces, including traditional stage plays, solo performances, sketch comedy, improvised full-length plays, and short films.
Robyn has appeared on The Today Show, CNBC’s The Oprah Effect, The Bonnie Hunt Show, Fox and Friends, The Joy Behar Show, and NPR’s All Things Considered. She’s also been featured in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Chicago Sun-Times, and has been seen in Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, USAToday.com, Salon.com, and The Huffington Post.
Robyn and Cathleen Carr created the popular blog, Ready, Set … Wife! in which they “explore the minefields of wedded bliss for simple answers to some complicated questions: Is the institution of marriage still important, or is it simply a cultural habit? Does it need defending, or should we all just live and let live? Is the grass always greener on the other side of the marriage certificate?”
CATHLEEN CARR BIOGRAPHY
Cathleen Carr is an actor, writer, and person of comedy. Her critically acclaimed two-woman comedy extravaganza Two Girls For Five Bucks has been seen all over the country, most recently at Ars Nova in New York City. Cathleen writes and performs with Naked Radio, the latest project from New York’s famed Naked Angels. She was a mainstage performer with Boston’s Improv Asylum for four years where she wrote and performed in multiple revues.
Cathleen earned her B.A. in Women and Performance Studies from Goddard College in Vermont. A respected teaching artist, Cathleen specializes in improvisational acting and cultivating new female voices in comedy.
Cathleen and Robyn Okrant created the popular blog, Ready, Set … Wife! in which they “explore the minefields of wedded bliss for simple answers to some complicated questions: Is the institution of marriage still important, or is it simply a cultural habit? Does it need defending, or should we all just live and let live? Is the grass always greener on the other side of the marriage certificate?”

