Jessica Gao 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 ''Rick and Morty'' is an American Adult animation, adult animated science fiction Animated sitcom, sitcom created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim. The series follows the misadvent ...

'', writing the episode "

Pickle Rick "Pickle Rick" is the third episode of the third season of the Adult Swim animated television series ''Rick and Morty''. Written by Jessica Gao and directed by Anthony Chun, the episode premiered on August 6, 2017. The plot follows eccentric s ...

" and co-creating the reoccurring character of Dr. Wong, and wrote for ''Silicon Valley'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Star Wars: Detours'', and '' Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness''.

Career

After winning the

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Writers Fellowship in 2006, Gao began her career writing for the network's shows like ''

'', ''

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'' and '' Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness'', before leaving to freelance on other shows such as

Adult Swim Adult Swim (stylized as

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's ''

'',

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's ''

The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange ''The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange'', or simply ''The Annoying Orange'', is an American television series created by Tom Sheppard and Dane Boedigheimer for Cartoon Network. Based on the characters from Boedigheimer's web series ' ...

'', and

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's '' Lab Rats''. Gao has also written for

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's ''

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'', the French series ''

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'',

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's ''

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'', and

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's ''

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''. She joined the writing room for the third season of ''Rick and Morty'', acting as story editor on six episodes and writing the episode "

". For writing "Pickle Rick", Gao won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program at the 2018 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. 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. Gao and ''Rick and Morty'' co-creator,

Dan Harmon Daniel James Harmon (born January 3, 1973) is an American television writer and producer. He is best known as the creator and producer of the NBC sitcom ''Community (TV series), Community'' (2009–2015), creator and host of the comedy podcast ' ...

, collaborated on a podcast series entitled "Whiting Wongs" that discussed race and privilege in Hollywood. 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

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, which landed a pilot episode order in 2019, directed by

Jude Weng Jude Weng is a director of episodic TV and feature films. Her episode of '' Party Down'', "First Annual P12A Symposium", was selected as a Perfect Episode by '' Vanity Fair'', and ''Rolling Stone Magazine'' chose her episode of '' Lucky Hank'', " ...

. The show revolved around a Chinese-American woman's relationship with her family. ABC passed on the sitcom, but the series was being shopped to other networks. In July 2019, she was chosen to write the script for the upcoming movie based on ''

Sweet Valley High ''Sweet Valley High'' is a series of young adult novels attributed to American author Francine Pascal, who presided over a team of ghostwriters to produce the series. The books chronicle the lives of identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefi ...

''. In November 2019, she was hired as the lead writer for the

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show '' She-Hulk: Attorney at Law''.

Personal life

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

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gao, Jessica 1984 births Living people 21st-century American screenwriters 21st-century American women artists Television writers from California American women screenwriters American women television producers American women television writers American writers of Chinese descent People from Hanford, California Television producers from California University of California, Los Angeles alumni American showrunners