Jane Espenson

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

She has worked on both situation comedies and serial dramas. She had a five-year stint as a writer and producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and shared a Hugo Award for her writing on the episode "Conversations with Dead People". Between 2009-2010 she served on Caprica, as co-executive and executive producer for the television series. In 2010 she wrote an episode of HBO's Game of Thrones, and 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. She is currently working as a consulting producer and writer on ABC's 2011 series Once Upon a Time, and has co-written and produced her first independent original web series with co-creator Brad Bell, entitled Husbands.

Early life

Espenson grew up in Ames, Iowa and graduated from Ames High School. As a teenager, Espenson found out that M*A*S*H accepted spec scripts without promise of payment or future work. Though she wasn't an established writer at the time, she planned to write her first episode. She recalls, "It was a disaster. I never sent it. I didn't know the correct format. I didn't know the address of where to send it, and then I thought, they can't really hire me until I finish junior high anyway." While Espenson was studying computer science and linguistics as a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley, she submitted several spec scripts for Star Trek: The Next Generation as part of a script submission program open to amateur writers; Espenson has referred to the program as the "last open door of show business."

Once upon a time

"Once upon a time" is a stock phrase used to introduce a narrative of past events, typically in fairy tales and folk tales. It has been used in some form since at least 1380 (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) in storytelling in the English language and has opened many oral narratives since 1600. These stories often then end with "and they all lived happily ever after", or, originally, "happily until their deaths".

The phrase is particularly common in fairy tales for younger children, where it is almost always the opening line of a tale. It was commonly used in the original translations of the stories of Charles Perrault as a translation for the French "il était une fois", of Hans Christian Andersen as a translation for the Danish "der var engang", (literally "there was once"), the Brothers Grimm as a translation for the German "es war einmal" (literally "it was once") and Joseph Jacobs in English translations and fairy tales.

The phrase is also frequently used in such oral stories as retellings of myths, fables, folklore and children's literature.

Once Upon a Time

"Once upon a time" is a stock phrase used to open the telling of a story in the English language

Once Upon a Time may also refer to:

Film

Once Upon a Time (1918 film), a British silent film directed by Thomas Bentley

Once Upon a Time (1944 film), an American film starring Cary Grant

Once Upon a Time (1973 film), a West German animated film written and directed by Roberto Gavioli and Rolf Kauka (also released in Italian)

Once Upon a Time (1994 film), a Thai film

Once Upon a Time (2008 film), a South Korean film

Once Upon a Time (2013 film), an Indian Malayalam animated film directed by Binu Sasidharan

Donkey Skin (film), a 1970 French film also known in English as Once Upon a Time or The Magic Donkey

Windaria, a 1986 Japanese anime film also known in English as Once Upon a Time or Legend of Fabulous Battle Windaria

Music

Albums

Once Upon a Time, a 2001 album by Claudia Christian

Once Upon a Time (Donna Summer album), a 1977 album

Once Upon a Time (Dreadzone album), a 2005 album

Catan

Catan, or The Settlers of Catan in older editions, is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber and first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlag (Kosmos) as Die Siedler von Catan. Players assume the roles of settlers, each attempting to build and develop holdings while trading and acquiring resources. Players are rewarded points as their settlements grow; the first to reach a set number of points, typically 10, is the winner. The game and its many expansions are also published by Mayfair Games, Filosofia, Capcom, 999 Games, Κάισσα, and Devir.

The Settlers of Catan was one of the first German-style board games to achieve popularity outside of Europe. As of 2015, more than 22 million copies in 30 languages were sold. The game has been translated into 30 languages. It is popular in the United States where it has been called "the board game of our time" by The Washington Post. A 2012 American documentary film titled Going Cardboard (featuring Klaus Teuber) is about this game's impact on American gaming communities and what came of it. The game involves large amounts of strategy, while still being fairly simple to learn, making it perfect for those who wish to enter the world of strategic boardgames.

Jane

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Jane (Ender's Game), a character in Orson Scott Card's Ender Saga

Jane Porter (Tarzan), later Jane Clayton, wife of John Clayton, Lord Greystoke (Tarzan) in the novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Jane, in Jane and the Dragon franchise

Jane, a character from Outnumbered, a fictional sit-com

Jane, the eldest Bennet sister from Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice

Jane, a character in The Catcher in the Rye, one of the few girls whom Holden both respects and finds attractive.

Jane, any of 3 in The P.L.A.I.N. Janes, 2007 comic & sequels, by Cecil Castellucci

Jane, a vampire from the Volturi clan in the Twilight series, portrayed by Dakota Fanning in the films

Jane Vaughn, a character in Degrassi: The Next Generation

Jane Eyre, the heroine/ main character from the novel of the same name by Charlotte Brontë written under the pen name "Currer Bell".

Jane Crocker, a main character, in the webcomic Homestuck

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Play in Full Screen Showrunners: A Documentary Film

2014, role: actress , character name: Herself
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2014, role: actress , character name: Herself
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2013, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Syfy 20th Anniversary Special

2012, role: actress , character name: Herself
Play in Full Screen Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines

2012, role: actress , character name: Herself
Play in Full Screen Star Wars: Detours

2012, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 Motion Comic

2011, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Warehouse 13

2009, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Battlestar Galactica: ...And They Have a Plan

2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
Play in Full Screen Battlestar Galactica: The Journey Ends - The Arrival

2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
Play in Full Screen The 1st Annual Streamy Awards

2009, role: actress , character name: Herself - Winner: Best Writing in a Drama Web Series
Play in Full Screen The Music of 'Battlestar Galactica'

2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
Play in Full Screen The Plan

2009, role: producer
Play in Full Screen The Plan

2009, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Battlestar Galactica: Razor

2007, role: producer
Play in Full Screen 'Buffy': Season 6 Overview

2004, role: actress , character name: Herself
Play in Full Screen 'Buffy': Season 7 Overview

2004, role: actress , character name: Herself
Play in Full Screen Here's How It Was: The Making of 'Firefly'

2003, role: actress , character name: Herself
Play in Full Screen 'Buffy': Season 3 Overview

2003, role: actress , character name: Herself
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2003, role: actress , character name: Herself
Play in Full Screen 'Buffy': Season 5 Overview

2003, role: actress , character name: Herself

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