Jane Espenson was born in Iowa and studied linguistics at UC Berkeley. She won the Disney Writing Fellowship for 1992-93 for a Seinfeld script she had written. From that, Jane wrote for Dinosaurs for a couple of months, and then worked as a writer on Ellen for a year. Jane also wrote an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine called ‘Accession’, which included Armin Shimerman (Principal Snyder) playing Quark. Jane then got the job as a writer for Buffy. She quickly became popular as the comedy-writer on the show and has written some of the funniest episodes in the series including A New Man, Triangle and Storyteller. Jane wrote the Jonathan-centric episode ‘Superstar‘ and she and Danny Strong became good friends. She is one of the only long-term Buffy writers never to have directed an episode of the show. Jane has also written for Angel, Firefly, Tru Calling, The O.C. and Gilmore Girls.
Job Description: Writer and co-executive producer
August 2nd, 2006 at 8:05 am
Jane is one of my favourite writers on the show.
“Oh Summers you drive like a spaz!”
August 2nd, 2006 at 3:49 pm
That is, by far, one of the best lines in that episode…possibly one of the funniest in the entire show but then there’s been so many it’s hard to tell. Definitely a great line though, I love the way Snyder says “spaaaaz!”