Jessica Gao

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Jessica Gao
Born (1984-01-02) January 2, 1984 (age 40)
Hanford, California, U.S.
Occupation Television writer, producer
Years active 2008–present
Notable work The Mighty B!
Rick and Morty
Silicon Valley
Back at the Barnyard
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

Jessica Gao (born January 2, 1984) is an American television writer and producer, who was creator and head writer of the TV series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. She also worked on the third season of Rick and Morty, writing the episode "Pickle Rick", and wrote for Silicon Valley, Robot Chicken, The Mighty B!, Back at the Barnyard, Star Wars: Detours, and Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness.

Career

Gao started her career as a writer on the Nickelodeon shows The Mighty B! and Back at the Barnyard. She continued to work for the network on shows such as Big Time Rush and Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, before leaving to freelance on other shows such as Adult Swim's Robot Chicken, Cartoon Network's The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange, and Disney XD's Lab Rats. Gao has also written for HBO's Silicon Valley, the French series Zip Zip, Seeso/Pluto TV's Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, and Comedy Central's Corporate.

She joined the writing room for the third season of Rick and Morty, acting as story editor on six episodes and writing the episode "Pickle Rick". For writing "Pickle Rick", Gao won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program at the 2018 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.[1] While working on the show, Gao and the other female writers were subject to sexual harassment by members of the fanbase that were upset about the show hiring women in the writing room.[2][3] Gao and Rick and Morty co-creator, Dan Harmon, collaborated on a podcast series entitled "Whiting Wongs" that discussed race and privilege in Hollywood.[4][5] Gao also wrote and co-executive produced the second season of the show Take My Wife.

Gao left Rick and Morty after the third season to develop a sitcom for ABC,[6][7] which landed a pilot episode order in 2019, directed by Jude Weng.[8][9] The show revolved around a Chinese-American woman's relationship with her family.[10] ABC passed on the sitcom, but the series was being shopped to other networks.[11] In July 2019, she was chosen to write the script for the upcoming movie based on Sweet Valley High.[12] In November 2019, she was hired as the lead writer for the Disney+ show She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.[13]

Personal life

Gao is engaged to Truck Torrence, who is known for creating emojis of Marvel characters under the name 100 Soft.[14]

Filmography

Year Title Credited as Notes
Writer Producer
2008–09 Back at the Barnyard Yes No Episodes: "War of the Pranks" and "The Sun Cow"
2008–11 The Mighty B! Yes No 35 episodes
2010–11 Big Time Rush Yes No 6 episodes
2011 Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness Yes No Episode: "Fluttering Finger Mindslip"
2012–13 Robot Chicken Yes No 9 episodes
2012–13 The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange Yes No 4 episodes
2014 Lab Rats Yes No Episode: "Trent Gets Schooled"
2014 Silicon Valley Yes No Episode: "Signaling Risk"
2015 Zip Zip Yes No Episode: "Rained In"
2016 Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ Yes No Episodes: "Roger Me Rightly" and "Baxter's Confession"
2017 Rick and Morty Yes No Episode: "Pickle Rick", also executive story editor
2017 The Memestar Chronicles Yes No Episode: "Look Mom, I'm on TV"
2018 Take My Wife Yes Yes Co-executive producer, wrote 2 episodes
2018 Corporate Yes Yes Supervising producer, wrote 2 episodes
2022 Easter Sunday No Executive
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Yes Executive Creator and head writer, wrote 3 episodes, also actor in "Whose Show Is This?"
TBA Stepdude Yes No Co-wrote with Scot Armstrong, Tracy Oliver, Rodney Rothman, and Eric Appel
The Undesirables TBA Executive [15]

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
2015 Writers Guild of America Awards Comedy Series Silicon Valley Nominated [16]
New Series Nominated
2018 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Animated Program Rick and Morty (for "Pickle Rick") Won [17]

References

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External links

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