Jane Espenson is a writer whose work includes Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel episodes, comics, and prose stories. She acted as well as executive story editor, co-producer, producer, supervising producer, then co-executive producer for the last five seasons of the series.
Biography[]
Buffyverse[]
Espenson wrote or co-wrote twenty-three episodes, beginning with the third-season episode "Band Candy" and ending with Buffy's penultimate episode, "End of Days." She is perhaps best known for the humorous episodes that she has penned, including "Triangle" and "Intervention," but she has also written entirely serious episodes, such as "After Life." Along with Drew Goddard, Espenson co-wrote the seventh-season episode "Conversations with Dead People," for which she won the 2003 Hugo Award for "Best Short Dramatic Presentation."
Along with writing, Espenson also worked as executive story editor on season three of Buffy, co-produced season four, produced season five, was supervising producer for season six, and co-executive producer for season seven.
Having written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Classic series, she returned to the Buffyverse with the seasons Eight and Nine of the comics. She has also written two prose stories for the Tales of the Slayer anthology series.
Other works[]
After her work on Buffy, Espenson wrote and produced episodes of The O.C. and Gilmore Girls, among other series. From 2006–2010, Espenson worked on Battlestar Galactica and many of its supplementary works. Between 2009–2010, she served on Caprica as co-executive, executive producer, and co-showrunner. In 2010, she wrote an episode of Game of Thrones, eventually earning a Writers' Guild Award for her involvement with the show. In 2011, Espenson joined the writing staff for the fourth season of Torchwood. From 2011-2018, Espenson worked as a consulting producer and co-executive producer on Once Upon a Time, and also wrote and directed some of the show's supplementary DVD content as well as helping develop the show's spin-off series. She co-wrote and produced the independent original web series Husbands, and was nominated for a Writers' Guild Award for their work on the series. Espenson also contributed writing to seasons 1 and 3 of the series Jessica Jones.
Buffyverse credits[]
Below is a list of works by Espenson in the Buffyverse:
Writer[]
Episodes[]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- "Band Candy"
- "Gingerbread"
- "Earshot"
- "The Harsh Light of Day"
- "Pangs"
- "Doomed" (with Marti Noxon and David Fury)
- "A New Man"
- "Superstar"
- "The Replacement"
- "Triangle"
- "Checkpoint" (with Douglas Petrie)
- "I Was Made to Love You"
- "Intervention"
- "After Life"
- "Flooded" (with Douglas Petrie)
- "Life Serial" (with David Fury)
- "Doublemeat Palace"
- "Same Time, Same Place"
- "Conversations with Dead People" (with Drew Goddard)
- "Sleeper" (with David Fury)
- "First Date"
- "Storyteller"
- "End of Days" (with Douglas Petrie)
Angel
- "Rm w/a Vu" (with David Greenwalt)
- "Guise Will Be Guise"
Comics[]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Classic
- Haunted miniseries
- Jonathan: Codename: Comrades
- Reunion
Tales of the Slayers
- Broken Bottle of Djinn (with Douglas Petrie)
- "Presumption"
Tales of the Vampires
- "Spot the Vampire"
- "Father"
- "Dust Bowl"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine
Prose stories[]
Tales of the Slayer
Editor[]
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 3 — Executive story editor
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 4 — Co-producer
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 5 — Producer
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 6 — Supervising producer
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 7 — Co-executive producer
Featurettes[]
Espenson appears in the following DVD featurettes:
- Audio commentary for "Earshot"
- "Wardrobe"
- "Weapons"
- "Buffy Speak"
- "Season 3 Overview"
- Audio commentary for "Superstar"
- "Hush"
- "The Sets of Sunnydale"
- "Introducing Spike"
- "Buffy Inside the Music"
- "Season 4 Overview"
- Audio commentary for "Rm w/a Vu"
- Audio commentary for I Was Made to Love You"
- "Buffy Abroad"
- "Demonology: A Slayer's Guide"
- "Natural Causes"
- "Season 5 Overview"
- "Buffy Goes to Work"
- "Season 6 Overview"
- Audio commentary for "Conversations with Dead People"
- "Generation S"
- "It's Always Been About the Fans"
- "Season 7 Overview"
External links[]
- Jane Espenson on Wikipedia
- Jane Espenson on IMDb
- Jane Espenson on Comic Book DB