Biography
Jane Espenson (born July 14, 1964) is an American television writer and producer.
Espenson has worked on both situation comedies and serial dramas. She had a five-year stint as a writer and producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and shared a Hugo Award with Drew Goddard for her writing on the episode "Conversations with Dead People".
After her work on Buffy, she wrote and produced episodes of The O.C. and Gilmore Girls among other series. From 2006 to 2010, she worked on Battlestar Galactica and several projects related to it. Between 2009 and 2010, she served on Caprica, as co-executive and executive producer and co-showrunner. In 2010, she wrote an episode of HBO's Game of Thrones, eventually earning a Writers' Guild Award for her involvement with the show. In 2011 she joined the writing staff for the fourth season of the British television program Torchwood, which aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom and Starz in the United States during mid-2011.
From 2011 to 2018, Espenson worked as a consulting producer and co-executive producer on ABC's series Once Upon a Time, and also wrote and directed some of the show's supplementary DVD content and helped develop the show's spin-off series. She co-wrote and produced Husbands, an independent original web series, with co-creator Brad Bell. She and Bell were nominated for a Writers' Guild Award for their work on the series. Espenson also contributed writing to seasons 1 and 3 of the Marvel series Jessica Jones.
She is an executive producer of the HBO series The Nevers along with creator Joss Whedon and fellow Buffy alum Doug Petrie.
She has written numerous comic books, edited multiple volumes of essays, and published several short stories.
Filmography
all 36
TV Shows 32
Writer 23
Producer 9
Movies 4
self 3
Foundation (2021)
Fantasy Island (2021)
The Nevers (2021)
Marvel's Jessica Jones (2015)
Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show (2014)
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (2013)
TableTop (2012)
Wonder Women!: The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2012)
Once Upon a Time (2011)
Husbands (2011)
Torchwood: Web of Lies (2011)
Game of Thrones (2011)
Caprica (2010)
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)
Warehouse 13 (2009)
Dollhouse (2009)
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2008)
Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007)
Torchwood (2006)
The Inside (2005)
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
The Batman (2004)
Tru Calling (2003)
The O.C. (2003)
Firefly (2002)
Gilmore Girls (2000)
Angel (1999)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)
Something So Right (1996)
Nowhere Man (1995)
Me and the Boys (1994)
Ellen (1994)
Monty (1994)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Dinosaurs (1991)
Buffy the Animated Series
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GenderFemale
Birthday1964-07-14 (59 years old)
Birth PlaceAmes, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsInkpot Award, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
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