Jane Espenson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jane Espenson
Occupation	Screenwriter
Date Of Birth	Jul 14, 1964(1964-07-14)
Age	60
Birthplace	Ames
Country	United States
Birth City	Iowa
Horoscope	Cancer

Jane Espenson Biography

Jane Espenson is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on July 14, 1964 in Ames, Iowa, United States. Espenson is the author of “What Holds Us Down,” a short story that appears in Still Flying, Titan Press ISBN 1848565062. Her short story, “Int. Wolf – Night appears in Empower: Fight Like a Girl ISBN 9780692210116. She also has short stories that appear in the “Tales of the Slayers”.

As an undergraduate and graduate student at University of California Berkeley, Espenson studied Linguistics. As a cognitive-linguistics research assistant, she was credited with discovering the phenomenon of location/object duality in metaphors pairs. Lakoff also mentions her year-long research on the “metaphorical structuring of causation” in the acknowledgements section of Philosophy in the Flesh. (ISBN 0-465-05674-1).

Espenson is the editor of the book Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon’s Firefly (BenBella Books, 2005, ISBN 1-933771-21-6), a collection of non-fiction essays on the short-lived television show Firefly. She also edited the follow-up collection Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon’s Firefly Universe (BenBella Books, 2007, ISBN 9781933771212) She is also the editor of Inside Joss’ Dollhouse: From Alpha to Rossum (BenBella Books, 2010, ISBN 9781935251989), a similar collection of essays about Dollhouse.

After her work on Buffy, she 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 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 Espenson joined the writing staff for the fourth season of the British television program Torchwood, which aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom and Starz in the United States during mid-2011.

1998 saw Espenson join Mutant Enemy Productions to serve as the executive story editor for the third Buffy the Vampire Slayer season. Espenson co-wrote or wrote twenty-three episodes over the course of the series’ run. They started with “Band Candy” before ending with Buffy’s penultimate episode, “End of Days.” In season 4, she was promoted to Co-Producer after her work as Executive Story Editor. She was promoted to producer in the fifth season. In the sixth season, she assumed the role of supervisor producer and was promoted to co-executive producer.

Jane Espenson Net Worth

Jane Espenson is one of the richest Screenwriter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jane Espenson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

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

In 1992, Espenson was awarded a Disney Writing Fellowship spot, which allowed him to work on several sitcoms including ABC’s comedy Dinosaurs, and Touchstone Television’s short-lived Monty. Then came work on the shorter-lived sitcoms Me and the Boys and Something So Right. She joined Ellen Degeneres’s writing team in 1997 for Ellen.

She wrote episodes both humorous (e.g. “Triangle” and “Intervention”) and serious (such as “After Life”). Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the seventh-season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” for which they won the Hugo Award for Best Short Dramatic Presentation in 2003.

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In 2011 Espenson also co-wrote and produced her first independent web series with partner Brad Bell. Entitled Husbands, it revolved around the life of two newly married gay men. Espenson self-funded the first season. A Kickstarter campaign and the involvement of CW Seed allowed subsequent production. The show eventually comprised four “seasons” and concluded in 2014. The series premiered Tuesday September 13, 2011. The series also generated “Husbands,” a hardback comic-book collection of stories rendered in a variety of different drawing styles, from Dark Horse Comics. ISBN 9781616551308.

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Jane Ranked on the list of most popular Screenwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jane Espenson celebrates birthday on July 14 of every year.

Espenson has appeared as an “expert witness” on the Judge John Hodgman podcast episode “Science Friction.”. In 2012, Espenson was a guest on the interview series Cocktails with Stan, with hosts Stan Lee and Jenna Busch. She has also been a guest on The Sound of Young America, with Jesse Thorn. She has guested on the Gilmore Guys podcast and on the Slayerfest podcast, about Gilmore Girls and Buffy respectively.