Biography
Los Angeles-based Bonnie Burton is an author, comedian, TV writer, screenwriter, games writer, journalist, and show host. Bonnie creates crafts with her celebrity pals Grant Imahara, Clare Kramer, Wil Wheaton, and others on her craft show Geek DIY for Stan Lee's World of Heroes YouTube channel. In her show Ask Bonnie, she discusses everything from UFOs to troll doll addictions. Bonnie also co-hosted the comedy show Vaginal Fantasy Romance Book Club Show and currently the Felicitations Book Club Show with Felicia Day.
Bonnie has appeared on Felicia Day's The Guild and Wil Wheaton's Tabletop. Bonnie has appeared on MTV, BBC, CNN, and more. She's performed comedy on stage at Sketchfest San Francisco, W00tstock, Writers with Drinks, VidCon, San Diego Comic-Con, New York Comic Con, LA Comic Con, Geek Girl Con, Denver Comic Con, Emerald City Con, Maker Faire, and more. From 1994 to 1996, she hosted the Denver music video TV show Teletunes. From 1996 to 1998 she hosted the San Francisco music video TV show Subculture. Bonnie co-hosts the monthly movie review show, The Night Shift. Bonnie appears in the Star Wars documentary, A Disturbance in the Force.
Bonnie Burton is the author of the books: Art of DreamWorks Spirit Untamed (Abrams), Art of DreamWorks Abominable (Cameron +Co), Live or Die: Survival Hacks (Quarto), J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World: Movie Magic Volume Three: Amazing Artifacts" (Candlewick), Crafting with Feminism (Quirk Books), The Star Wars Craft Book (Random House), Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Planets in Peril (DK Readers), Draw Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Scholastic), You Can Draw: Star Wars (DK Children), Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean To Each Other and How We Can Change (Lerner Publishing) and Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers: Best of Blogs (Apress). Her writing appears in the comic book anthologies Pros and Comic Cons (Dark Horse), Womanthology: Heroic (IDW Publishing), Womanthology: Space (IDW Publishing), and more.
Bonnie has written immersive murder mystery games for Hunt A Killer Games, Goliath Games, and Magic the Gathering, to name a few. Bonnie has written for Wired, Disney, Playboy, CBS, NBC, MTV, CBS, NBC and CNN. Bonnie worked for 10 years as Senior Editor and Social Media Strategist at Lucasfilm.
