Editing Jane Espenson (section)

{{short description|American television writer and producer (born 1964)}}
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| name = Jane Espenson
| image = MCM Once Upon A Time Panel DSC 3132 (8980685674) (cropped).jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|7|14}}
| birth_place = [[Ames, Iowa]], U.S.<ref name="CNN Profile">{{cite web|last=Kelly|first=Suzanne|title=Jane Espenson: Writer, sci-fi thriller, one nerdy lady| url= http://edition.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/28/jane.espenson.profile/| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110201062848/http://edition.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/28/jane.espenson.profile/| url-status= dead| archive-date= February 1, 2011|publisher=CNN|access-date=28 January 2011}}</ref>
| occupation = Television producer & writer
| caption = Espenson in May 2013
| years_active = 1994–present
| website = http://www.janeespenson.com/
}}

'''Jane Espenson''' (born July 14, 1964) is an American television writer and producer.

Espenson has worked on both [[situation comedy|situation comedies]] and [[Serial (radio and television)|serial dramas]].  She had a five-year stint as a writer and producer on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and shared a [[Hugo Award]] with [[Drew Goddard]] for her writing on the episode "[[Conversations with Dead People]]".

After her work on ''Buffy'', she wrote and produced episodes of ''[[The O.C.]]'' and ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' among other series. From 2006 to 2010, she worked on ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' and several projects related to it. Between 2009 and 2010, she served on ''[[Caprica (TV series)|Caprica]]'', as co-executive and executive producer and co-showrunner. In 2010, she wrote an episode of [[HBO]]'s ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', eventually earning a Writers' Guild Award for her involvement with the show. In 2011 she joined the writing staff for [[Torchwood: Miracle Day|the fourth season]] of the British television program ''[[Torchwood]]'', which aired on [[BBC One]] in the United Kingdom and [[Starz (TV channel)|Starz]] in the United States during mid-2011.

From 2011 to 2018, Espenson worked as a consulting producer and co-executive producer on ABC's series ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'', and also wrote and directed some of the show's supplementary DVD content and helped develop the show's spin-off series. She co-wrote and produced ''[[Husbands (TV series)|Husbands]]'', an independent original web series, with co-creator [[Brad Bell (producer)|Brad Bell]]. She and Bell were nominated for a Writers' Guild Award for their work on the series. Espenson also contributed writing to seasons 1 and 3 of the Marvel series ''[[Jessica Jones (TV series)|Jessica Jones]]'', and was an executive producer of the HBO series ''[[The Nevers (TV series)|The Nevers]]''.

She currently{{when|date=December 2024}} works on the [[Apple TV+]] series [[Foundation (TV series)|Foundation]].

She has written numerous comic books, edited multiple volumes of essays, and published several short stories.