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Cathe Jones
[Cathe Jones|Photo of Comedian, Artist, Author, and Rat Wrangler, Cathe B. Jones]]

Cathe Boudreau Jones was born in Boston, MA on May 1, 1964. She is the author of TimeLine (http://byShayne.com/timeline), and is owner and chief artist of Cathe's Comicz. Aside from her work as a writer she is notable for her 30 years of work as a stand-up comedian at the Comedy Store, and in Las Vegas, as well as a member of the now defunct Additionally, Mrs. Jones is a full time singer and songwriter working with notables as King Lizzard,. Living in Las Vegas, she is married to [|Penn & Teller]'s music director and jazz pianist, [|Mike Jones.] The pair met when Cathe was hired as a rat wrangler for Penn & Teller's television show, Bullshit.

Early Career
As an author Cathe first published her work in Boston, as a student in elementary school. She won several awards, was a member of the Boston Public School's Talented and Gifted Program which allowed her to complete college courses while still in middle school. She was offered a scholarship to Emerson College, but elected to graduate a year early and attend Massachusetts College of Artat the age of 17. For financial reasons, she left art school and took time out to join the United States Navy, serving aboard Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2. Upon her departure, she again went to Mass Art, where she was one of their first computer animator and artists, completing her degree in 3 years. Each year she provided work with Boston's First Night, adding giant Ice Sculptures to the event.

Upon graduation, she was offered an Ahmanson scholarship to California Institute of the Arts, by artist Ed Emshwiller, studying under Jules Engel and Christine Panushka, she was awarded an MFA in film in 1991 for her film thesis animation "Revelation/Transition", available at the Calarts Library. During her studies she worked as a stand-up comedian the Hollywood Comedy Store, studied at Second City, and played a Porky Pig[[ of [[Magic Mountain to pay for her education. Soon she was offered a permanent job at Boss Films, studying effects under Academy Award winning artist Richard Edlund. Citing her disdain of Los Angeles' unending traffic, she found herself as an Assistant Professor of Communications at New Mexico Highlands University.

Comedy, Music, Writing and Ren Faires
While teaching at New Mexico Highlands University Cathe continued writing, publishing TimeLine, and performing spoken works and stand up comedy around the country from San Francisco to Austin's SXSW. Prompting from several members of bands, she gave up teaching to study music at San Francisco State University. While there, she continued performing spoken works at Above Brainwash, and was a regular comedian at Catch A Rising Star. For a short while she also worked in Sacramento, however, she was asked back to the Comedy Store, and again became a regular there, since the comedy boom of the 1980's was starting to wind down. To pay bills, Cathe managed to procure jobs at Fortune 500 companies including Pacific Life and Macromedia developing web site intranets and extranets. It was during this time she landed a long time online radio star job with Premiere Networks for the Pat & Mike World Wide Radio Show, in which her Internut Comedian segments gained a large following. She also sang with Surfwater Bandits, a band out of Santa Monica.

When Jones was off, and not producing music, radio, writing, or doing web work, she began studying sword fighting with members of the St. Alban's School of Defense, which lead to several summers as a member of California Renaissance Fairs performing with members of the Familia Medici, playing Lucrezia, and Louise Labé, the woman who create salons. It was during her work at the Ren Faires where she discovered a love of rats. She began training them with the guidance of the rat wranglers there, and soon was able to work for television and movies as a professional. This is how she began her work with Penn & Teller, and can be seen in the Series One extras of Showtime's Bullshit.

Ehlers-Danlos and Disability
Cathe Boudreau Jones was diagnosed with a collagen disorder, Ehlers-Danlos, which allows her joints to dislocate and sublux randomly, causing great damage to her joints, including bone spurs and misaligned ligaments. Her active performance, radio, and work schedule was cut substantially back by her mid-thirties, and after seeing no alternatives, she was forced to apply for disability.