Jane Espenson
Jane Espenson (* July 14, 1964 in Ames, Iowa) is an American screenwriter, comic book writer and film producer who mainly with their work for the Buffy series -. The Vampire Slayer gained fame
Life
During her studies at the University of California (Berkeley ) filed Espenson following a tender process for amateur writers from the creators of the series Star Trek: The Next Generation some screenplays one. Participation in the Disney Writing Fellowship was the next step in their career. For Disney, she wrote to various sitcoms, like Monty, The Dinos and Ellen with. In a re-orientation of their work, they let the comedy series behind him and turned to Joss Whedon's Buffy project - the Vampire Slayer to.
After her linguistics studies she worked as a research fellow at George Lakoff.
Main work
Espenson worked from 1998, Whedon's production company, Mutant Enemy. Especially the third season of Buffy - the Vampire Slayer bears their signature. Since then, she has held the series in various positions in production and script process to completion. For her work on the Buffy episode Conversations with Dead People the seventh season she was awarded in 2003 with the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, short form. As a result of their association with Whedon, she wrote screenplays for Firefly - The departure of Serenity and Angel - Hunters of darkness. For the comic book adaptation of the Buffy series is jointly involved with Whedon and others to more than one magazine as an author.
In 2003 she was involved in the production of the fourth season of the series Gilmore Girls as well as from 2006 to 2008 as a co -producer on all episodes of the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica. Already for the third season of Battlestar Galactica she co-wrote two screenplays. It also has the screenplay for the 2009 TV movie appearing Battlestar Galactica: The Plan and written since 2009 on the staff of Battlestar spin-off Caprica, as co -producer involved.
In 2010 she wrote several episodes of the HBO series Game of Thrones and the fourth season of Torchwood. In 2011 she worked as a consulting producer and scriptwriter of the series Once Upon a Time - Once upon a time ....
Works
- Leah Wilson and Jane Espenson (ed.): Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon 's Firefly Universe (2007)