Gabrielle Stanton | |
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| Occupation | Television producer,screenwriter |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Barnard College |
| Notable works | Grey's Anatomy,Ugly Betty,Haven,The Vampire Diaries,The Flash,The Summer I Turned Pretty |
| Spouse | Harry Werksman (divorced) |
Gabrielle Gail Stanton (born inSouth Orange,New Jersey) is an Americantelevision writer andproducer. She is known for her work on theABC seriesGrey's Anatomy andUgly Betty, forThe CW'sThe Flash, and forSyfy'sStephen King adaptation seriesHaven.
After attending the all-girlsKent Place School inSummit, New Jersey and graduating from the women'sBarnard College andColumbia University inManhattan, New York, Stanton worked as the national publicity coordinator in theNew York office of thePublic Broadcasting Service until 1991.[1] In 1992 she made her way into thefilm industry as the assistant to writer-producerGeorge Zaloom on the filmEncino Man and later appeared in the 1998 filmFree Enterprise in a minor role as the character "Gabrielle", while her then husband and writing partnerHarry Werksman also appeared in the film as "Harry". She also worked on the movieEdward Scissorhands. It was also in 1998 that she broke into television. Her first job was onStar Trek: Deep Space Nine, which she followed with writing positions onV.I.P. and thescience fiction seriesEarth: Final Conflict,Farscape,The Invisible Man andVeritas: The Quest, in the latter two of which she also served as co-producer. She wrote theteleplay for themade-for-television movieDeathlands before she was hired as a writer and producer for the medical drama seriesGrey's Anatomy, for which she made her debut with the 2005 episodes "Who's Zoomin' Who" and "Much Too Much".[2] Her work onGrey's Anatomy earned her a sharedPrimetime Emmy Award nomination with the other production crew members in theOutstanding Drama Series category[3] and oneWriters Guild of America Award and two nominations; nominations in 2006 and 2007 for Dramatic Series, and a win in 2006 in the New Series category.[4] She moved fromGrey's Anatomy to the dramedy seriesUgly Betty in 2007, writing the episode "Petra-Gate" and serving as a supervising producer for eight other episodes. She and the otherUgly Betty producers were nominated in 2007 for a Primetime Emmy Award in theOutstanding Comedy Series category.[5]
Stanton also worked on the CBS television seriesMoonlight, for which she wrote three episodes and served as first co-executive producer, then executive producer. Upon its cancellation in May 2008,[6] she served as co-executive producer on the ABC seriesCastle, then as consulting producer on The CW'sThe Vampire Diaries. Stanton was a co-executive producer on the ABC seriesThe Gates.[7]
She served as showrunner for theSyfy seriesHaven over its five-season run. She then joined the writing team ofThe CW superhero dramaThe Flash, where she also served as consulting producer for the last five episode of the first season. She co-wrote the teleplay for the season finale, along with showrunnerAndrew Kreisberg, "Fast Enough". Entering its sophomore year. Stanton was promoted to co-showrunner/executive producer; co-writing the teleplay, again with Kreisberg, for the premiere, "The Man Who Saved Central City". Next she co-penned the pivotal sixth episode, "Enter Zoom", with story editorBrooke Eikmeier.[8] At the conclusion of 2015, Stanton departed the series for uncited reasons. Prior to joiningFlash, Stanton had written a first-season episode of its parent-seriesArrow, "Trust But Verify".
Stanton and her former husbandHarry Werksman announced their wedding plans in April 1991[9] and married in July 1991 in the chapel ofNew College at theUniversity of Oxford, where Werksman had just received hismaster of letters degree in English history in June.[1] They divorced in 2008. Her father is James Stanton, a lawyer,[1] and she has a sister named Lexie.[10]