Jane Espenson
Overview
 
Jane Espenson is an American
United States
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 script writer and television producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

 who has worked on both situation comedies
Situation comedy
A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...

 and serial dramas
Serial (radio and television)
Serials are series of television programs and radio programs that rely on a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode by episode fashion. Serials typically follow main story arcs that span entire television seasons or even the full run of the series, which distinguishes them from...

. She had a five-year stint as a writer and producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and shared a Hugo Award
Hugo Award
The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...

 for her writing on the episode "Conversations with Dead People". Between 2009-2010 she served on Caprica
Caprica (TV series)
Caprica is a science fiction drama television series. It is a spin-off prequel of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, taking place about 58 years prior to the events of Battlestar Galactica. Caprica shows how humanity first created the robotic Cylons who would later plot to destroy humans in...

, as co-executive and executive producer for the television series. In 2010 she wrote an episode of HBO's Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones (TV series)
Game of Thrones is an American medieval fantasy television series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. Based on author George R. R. Martin's best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels, the first of which is called A Game of Thrones, the television series debuted in...

, and joined the writing staff for season four of the television program Torchwood
Torchwood
Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from...

, which aired on Starz across Summer 2011 in the US.
Quotations

I recently had to wait two and a half hours in a doctor's office, just waiting to be seen.I literally was genuinely thinking "Well, maybe this is a time loop"

BBC interview

Ah well, if I had all the resources at my disposal that the nerds have? Well yeah, I think monkeys, jet packs and boys, boys, boys.

BBC interview

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I’m really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

BBC interview

[A] fast food place is a naturally creepy setting.

BBC interview

It may simply be that you're mistaking consistency for blandness

Ain't It Cool News interview

Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.

Ain't It Cool News interview

Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something.

Ain't It Cool News interview

 
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