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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Foundation

Fantasy Island

The Nevers

Marvel's Jessica Jones

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

Once Upon a Time

Husbands

Torchwood: Web of Lies

Game of Thrones

Caprica

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

Warehouse 13

Dollhouse

Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy

Battlestar Galactica: Razor

Torchwood

The Inside

Battlestar Galactica

The Batman

Tru Calling

The O.C.

Firefly

Gilmore Girls

Angel

Something So Right

Nowhere Man

Me and the Boys

Ellen

Monty

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Dinosaurs

Buffy the Animated Series

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.

Jane Espenson

Jane Espenson

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