Jane Espenson

Jane Espenson
Role:	Co-Executive Producer Writer
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Nationality:	USA
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Jane Espenson is a Co-Executive Producer and writer for the Re-imagined series of Battlestar Galactica.

Jane Espenson grew up in Ames, Iowa, where she admits she watched too much television. (Starsky and Hutch was reportedly a favorite.) At age 13 she took a stab at writing an episode of M*A*S*H. She attended college at UC Berkeley, studying linguistics as an undergrad and graduate student. While in grad school, she submitted spec episodes to Star Trek: The Next Generation.

After winning a spot in the Walt Disney writers' fellowship (1992-93), Espenson worked in sitcoms for a number of years. She is also a Star Trek alumnus, having written the Deep Space Nine season 4 episode "Accession".

Her first staff job on a drama was on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which she joined in the middle of Season 3. Espenson wrote 23 episodes of the show, more than any other writer besides showrunners Joss Wheldon and Marti Noxon. During her stint on Buffy, she wrote the Hugo Award-winning episode "Conversations with Dead People." Espenson would go on to write for two other Joss Whedon TV series, Firefly, and the Buffy spinoff, Angel.

Espenson did a year as Co-Executive Producer at Gilmore Girls, and brief stints as Co-Executive Producer of the cancelled FOX dramas Tru Calling and The Inside. Next, she served as Co-Executive Producer of the sitcom Jake in Progress, which was also short-lived.

Along the way, she also wrote an episode of The O.C. as well as several episodes of the animated series "The Batman."

She reportedly often tells people she has the best job in the world.

Writer credits for "Battlestar Galactica"

• Season 3:
  • The Passage
  • Dirty Hands

See also: Episodes written by Jane Espenson

External Links

• Jane Espenson website
• Jane Espenson article at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki.