Jane Espenson

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Jane Espenson is an American writer who has worked on several television series and comic books, as well as on a variety of other projects. She is perhaps best known for her five-year stint as a writer and producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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 (sometimes referred to as "Espensodes" or "Espisodes"), 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 Jane 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. She returns to the Buffyverse with the Season Eight comic Harmonic Divergence.

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Episodes Written

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

3.06 "Band Candy"

3.11 "Gingerbread"

3.18 "Earshot"

4.03 "The Harsh Light of Day"

4.08 "Pangs"

4.11 "Doomed" (co-written with Marti Noxon & David Fury)

4.12 "A New Man"

4.17 "Superstar"

5.03 "The Replacement"

5.11 "Triangle"

5.12 "Checkpoint" (co-written with Douglas Petrie)

5.15 "I Was Made To Love You"

5.18 "Intervention"

6.03 "After Life"

6.04 "Flooded" (co-written with Douglas Petrie)

6.05 "Life Serial" (co-written with David Fury)

6.12 "Doublemeat Palace"

7.03 "Same Time, Same Place"

7.07 "Conversations with Dead People" (co-written with Drew Goddard)

7.08 "Sleeper" (co-written with David Fury)

7.14 "First Date"

7.16 "Storyteller"

7.21 "End of Days" (co-written with Douglas Petrie)

Angel

1.05 "Rm w/a Vu"

2.06 "Guise Will Be Guise"