Amy Claussen | Writer and Game Designer
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Amy is a game designer and writer based in the Bay Area. She works in games, theatre, film... and robots.

Currently, she's works on the robot Cozmo at Anki. Google him. He's adorable. And has some amazing tech going on inside his little brain.

Previously, she designed The Sims Mobile for Maxis/Electronic Arts, as well as wrote punderful words for SimCity BuildIt. She also worked on Pocket Gems' hit mobile games, Tap Paradise Cove and War Dragons, as well as contributed to Episode: Choose Your Story to optimize its community authors' writing tool.

As a playwright, her solo play about growing up in Indonesia, White Elephant, was performed off-Broadway and mentioned in The New York Times. She is the lyricist of Off With Her Maidenhead, a deliciously irreverent Disney-eque musical about a nunnery that becomes a world-class brothel. Other plays have been produced and workshopped at the Hangar Theatre (Ithaca, NY), Primary Stages (off-B’way), Profile Theatre (Portland), and Perry-Mansfield (Colorado). 

As a director, she is a former Drama League fellow and has worked at Berkeley Rep, Hangar Theatre (Ithaca, NY), and the Paul Gleason Theatre (Los Angeles), as well as assisted on Nora and Delia Ephon's Love, Loss, and What I Wore (off-B’way) starring a rotating cast of actresses including Rosie O’Donnell, Rita Wilson, Kristen Chenoweth, and Tyne Daly. 

Her video scripts and web content appears on Shmoop.com, a humorous educational website geared toward high-schoolers. In corporate video, she has worked as a producer and on film shoots for Beyond Pix Studios. 

Amy holds her theatre degree from Carnegie Mellon in Directing.

In her free time, Amy enjoys cooking up a storm, an insatiable love of Scrabble, and celebrating the work of her inspiring colleagues in arts and tech.

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