Bonnie Burton
Author, TV Writer, Games Writer
Author, Comedian, Crafty, Film/theatre Journalist, Marketing/pr, Screenwriter, Transmedia Producer and Host/presenter
Los Angeles, California
December 2015
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About Bonnie
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 Wil Wheaton, Grant Imahara, Clare Kramer, 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 and podcast with Felicia Day. Bonnie also co-hosts the monthly horror movie review show and podcast, The Night Shift with Renee Ruin and Jenna Haze.
Bonnie has performed comedy on stage at Sketchfest San Francisco, W00tstock, Writers with Drinks, VidCon, San Diego Comic-Con, New York Comic Con, Los Angeles Comic Con, Geek Girl Con, Denver Comic Con, Emerald City Con, JoCo Cruise, 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 Night Shift horror movie podcast with Aussie music journalist Renee Ruin and adult film star Jenna Haze. Bonnie also co-hosts the Felicitations Book Club podcast with actress Felicia Day.
Bonnie appears in the Star Wars documentaries A Disturbance in the Force and Looking for Leia. Bonnie also guest starred on Felicia Day's TV series, The Guild, and Wil Wheaton's show, Tabletop. Bonnie has appeared on MTV, BBC, CNN, ABC News Nightline, SGNL by Sony, Behind Closed Doors, and E! True Hollywood Story.
Bonnie 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 (Klutz Books), You Can Draw: Star Wars (DK Children), Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean To Each Other and How We Can Change (Zest Books) 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 also written for Wired, Disney, Playboy, CBS, NBC, MTV, Goliath Games, Magic the Gathering, DreamWorks, and Hunt a Killer Games. Bonnie worked for 10 years as Senior Editor and Social Media Strategist at Lucasfilm.
Unique traits: Known for writing Murder Mystery Games and Non-fiction Entertainment Books.
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A Disturbance in the Force (
2023 )
Documentary by September Club/Jeremy Coon (Documentary) Self Investigating the infamous The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) with the behind-the-scenes story of how it got made. -
Felicitations! (
2022 - 2023 )
Hosting by Felicia Day/Libsyn (Talk-Show) Self, Host On the Felicitations Book Club Show hosts Felicia Day and Bonnie Burton discuss interesting and unusual books. -
S.A.L.E.M.: The Secret Archive of Legends, Enchantments & Monsters (
2020 )
Television by Sam Sawyer Special Creative Consultant S.A.L.E.M. is an animated story filled with adventure, self-discovery, and cryptids. Following a young, bright-eyed cryptid named Salem, who lives with their guardian, the one and only Boogeyman. For years Salem prepared to 'take over the family business', only for their world to be flipped upside down. -
Looking for Leia (
2019 )
Documentary by Annalise Ophelian Self LOOKING FOR LEIA explores the unique phenomenon of "fangirls" in the traditionally male nerd arena. -
Vaginal Fantasy Romance Book Club (
2012 - 2018 )
TV Series by Geek & Sundry (Talk-Show) Writer, Self, Host Show hosts Felicia Day, Veronica Belmont, Bonnie Burton, and Kiala Kazabee join online for a gathering of wine, women, and smut as they discuss and dissect a new romance novel each month. -
CNET Farsighted (
2016 - 2017 )
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CNET CraveCast (
2014 - 2016 )
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TableTop (
2012 - 2015 )
Television by Geek & Sundry Self Actor Wil Wheaton hosts tabletop games featuring three other celebrity players. -
The 2nd Annual Geekie Awards (
2014 )
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ABC News Nightline (
2013 )
Television by American Broadcasting Company (ABC) Self Bonnie Burton talks about the ground-breaking social media influencer company, Klout. -
The Geekie Awards (
2013 )
Television by Lionel Pasamonte Miscellaneous Crew, Self -
Geek DIY (
2012 )
Television by Stan Lee's World of Heroes (Reality-TV) Writer, Self, Host Author and Host Bonnie Burton creates crafts with her celebrity pals Wil Wheaton, Grant Imahara, Clare Kramer, and others on her craft show Geek DIY for Stan Lee's World of Heroes YouTube channel. -
The Guild (
2011 )
Television by Felicia Day (Comedy) Actress The show revolves around the lives of online guild, The Knights of Good, who play countless hours of an unnamed MMORPG video game. The story focuses on Codex, the guild's Priestess, who attempts to lead a normal life after one of her guild-mates, Warlock Zaboo, shows up on her doorstep. Written by Anonymous -
Ask Bonnie (
1996 - 1999 )
Television by Excite (Reality-TV) Writer, Director, Producer, Self Host/Writer Bonnie Burton discusses everything from UFOs to troll doll addictions.
Education
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University of Colorado - Boulder
(1990-1995)
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