Jane Espenson

Jane Espenson is an American television writer and producer who has worked on both situation comedies and serial dramas. She is perhaps best known for her five-year stint as a writer and producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, work for which she shared in a Hugo Award. She is currently working on Caprica, in which she will be serving as showrunner for the series. Espenson grew up in Ames, Iowa. While Espenson was a graduate student at University of... more

Jane Espenson is an American television writer and producer who has worked on both situation comedies and serial dramas. She is perhaps best known for her five-year stint as a writer and producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, work for which she shared in a Hugo Award. She is currently working on Caprica, in which she will be serving as showrunner for the series. Espenson grew up in Ames, Iowa. While Espenson was a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley, she submitted several spec scripts for Star Trek: The Next Generation as part of a script submission program open to amateur writers; Espenson has referred to the program as the "last open door of show business." Her next break was a spot in the Disney Writing Fellowship, which led to work on a number of sitcoms, including Disney's animated comedy Dinosaurs and Touchstone Television's short-lived Monty. Espenson was then hired as a staff writer at Ellen. After a year, Espenson decided to switch from comedic to dramatic... less