Marianne Krawczyk

Marianne Krawczyk is a screenwriter and video game writer. She wrote the screenplay for Appleseed Alpha (2014), based on the manga by Masamune Shirow and directed by Shinji Aramaki. She also is most known for writing all the God of War games. She won a BAFTA Game Award for Best Story and Character due to her writing work on God of War II (2007).

Krawczyk started her career serving as a co-dialogue writer on the game Area 51 (2005).

While based at Sony in Santa Monica, Krawczyk wrote the first God of War (2005) game, and also wrote or helped write God of War II (2007), God of War: Betrayal (2007), God of War: Chains of Olympus (2008), God of War III (2010), God of War: Ghost of Sparta (2010), and God of War: Ascension (2013). For her writing work on God of War II, she was awarded a BAFTA Game Award for Best Story and Character, along with co-writers Cory Barlog and David Jaffe. At the 2011 WGA Awards, she and co-writers Stig Asmussen, Ariel Lawrence, and William Weissbaum were nominated for Video Game Writing Awards due to their writing work on God of War III. At the 2014 WGA Awards, she and co-writer Ariel Lawrence were nominated for "Outstanding Achievement in Writing: Video Game Writing" for their work on God of War: Ascension. She also helped write the graphic novel prequel story for God of War: Ascension called Rise of the Warrior.