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American television writer and producer

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, and was an executive producer of the HBO series The Nevers. She currently works on the Apple TV+ series Foundation. She has written numerous comic books, edited multiple volumes of essays, and published several short stories.

Espenson joined the crew of Sci Fi's Battlestar Galactica (BSG) just after Battlestar Galactica: Razor, BSG's first television movie, was conceived. As one of BSG's co executive producers, she worked on every fourth season episode starting with "He That Believeth in Me"; she was also the writer of "Escape Velocity" and "The Hub" and co wrote The Face of the Enemy webisodes. Prior to joining the show's staff she wrote one third season episode and co wrote another. In August 2008, the Los Angeles Times broke the news that Espenson was the writer behind BSG's second television movie, The Plan, news confirmed in her writer's blog. In January 2009 it was announced that she had joined the spin off series Caprica as co executive producer and would take on showrunner duties midway through the first season. Espenson later gave up showrunning duties to focus more on writing.

In August 2010 it was announced that Torchwood creator, lead writer and executive producer Russell T. Davies had hired Espenson to write for the show's fourth series, Torchwood: Miracle Day to be broadcast in 2011. She later confirmed that she would be writing episodes 3, 5, 7 and co writing episode 8 (with Ryan Scott) and episode 10 (with Davies). Prior to her involvement with Torchwood, Espenson had said she was a fan of the show, particularly the third series, "Children of Earth." To tie in with the launch of Torchwood: Miracle Day, Espenson and Scott collaborated on the Starz produced 2011 Torchwood webseries entitled Torchwood: Web of Lies, which stars American actress Eliza Dushku. Following the broadcast of each episode of "Miracle Day" on Starz, Espenson wrote a blog on AfterElton mixing her reaction to the episode with behind the scenes information on the devising process.

In 2011 Espenson also co wrote and produced her first independent web series with partner Brad Bell. Entitled Husbands, it revolved around the life of two newly married gay men. Espenson self funded the first season. A Kickstarter campaign and the involvement of CW Seed allowed subsequent production. The show eventually comprised four "seasons" and concluded in 2014. The series premiered Tuesday September 13, 2011. The series also generated Husbands, a hardback comic book collection of stories rendered in a variety of different drawing styles, from Dark Horse Comics. .

In May 2011, Espenson was brought on to the ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time, as a writer and consulting producer. She stayed with the show for its entire seven year run, and became a co executive producer on the project. She was also involved in creation and writing of the spin off series Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.

In 2011, working as a freelancer, Espenson wrote episode 6 of season 1 of Game of Thrones, titled "A Golden Crown". It is notable as one of only four Game of Thrones episodes written by women.

In 2015, during the hiatus between seasons of Once Upon a Time, Espenson consulted on the series Jessica Jones, earning a "thanks to" in the credits. In 2019, she returned for a larger role on the staff, and wrote the eleventh episode of the third season "A. K. A. Hellcat".

In 2018, Espenson joined the HBO series The Nevers, as a writer and executive producer. The series premiered on April 11, 2021.

Espenson consulted on the Apple TV+ series Foundation in season 1, joining the writing staff in season 2 with writing credits on half of the episodes.

Espenson has written episodes for several other television shows, including episode 4.17 ("Accession") of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and one episode ("Shindig") of Firefly. She has worked on Angel, Tru Calling, The Inside, The Batman, Andy Barker, P. I., Jake in Progress and Dollhouse, and was the co creator of Warehouse 13. Espenson is the editor of the book Finding Serenity: Anti Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly (BenBella Books, 2005, ), a collection of non fiction essays on the short lived television show Firefly. She edited the follow up collection Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe (BenBella Books, 2007, ) She is the editor of Inside Joss' Dollhouse: From Alpha to Rossum (BenBella Books, 2010, ), a similar collection of essays about Dollhouse. Espenson wrote the short story "What Holds Us Down", which appears in Still Flying from Titan Press, Her short story "Int. Wolf Night" appears in Empower: Fight Like a Girl She also has short stories which appear in the Tales of the Slayers book series. Her short story, "Nobel Prize Speech Draft of Paul Winterhoeven, With Personal Notes", was published in the September 2021 issue of Future Science Fiction Digest. In 2016, Espenson served on the MoPOP (Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle) committee to select inductees into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. She is featured as a video/voice commentator in the museum itself. Espenson has written for three of the 101 Best Television Series as determined by the Writers Guild of America: Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Espenson has appeared as an "expert witness" on the Judge John Hodgman podcast episodes "Science Friction" and "Vampirical Evidence." In 2012, Espenson was a guest on the interview series Cocktails with Stan, with hosts Stan Lee and Jenna Busch. She has also been a guest on The Sound of Young America, with Jesse Thorn. She has guested on the Gilmore Guys podcast and on the Slayerfest podcast, about Gilmore Girls and Buffy respectively. She appears in the documentary interview series James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction and Showrunners.

+ List of awards and award nominations Year Award Award category Title of work Result 2003 Hugo Award Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form "Conversations with Dead People"(Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode) 2009 Streamy Awards Best Writing for a Dramatic Web Series Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy Emmy Award Short format Live action Entertainment Program (shared with Ronald D. Moore, David Eick, and Harvey Frand) Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy 2012Writers Guild of America Award Drama Series (shared with D. B. Weiss, George R. R. Martin, David Benioff and Bryan Cogman)Game of Thrones New Series (shared with D. B. Weiss, Bryan Cogman, David Benioff and George R. R. Martin) Indie Soap Awards Best Writing (Comedy) (shared with Brad Bell) Husbands Hugo Award Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form (shared with David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Bryan Cogman, George R. R. Martin, Tim Van Patten, Brian Kirk, Daniel Minahan and Alan Taylor) Game of Thrones, Season One 2013 International Academy of Web TelevisionBest Writing (Comedy) (shared with Brad Bell)Husbands Indie Soap Awards 2014 Writers Guild of America Awards Short Form New Media – Original (shared with Brad Bell) Husbands episodes "I Do Over Part 1–2" International Academy of Web TelevisionBest Writing (Comedy) (shared with Brad Bell)Husbands Indie Series Awards Streamy Awards Writing (shared with Brad Bell) Inkpot Award 2015 Etheria Film NightInspiration Award