Born: 1955
Episodes Broadcast: 2011

Raised in New Jersey, Doris Egan attended Barnard College in New York. She then embarked on a career in computer support on Wall Street, but she also wrote fiction in her spare time. In 1986, Egan's short story “Timerider” was published in Amazing Stories magazine. Before long, her resume expanded to include novels -- most notably the Gate Of Ivory trilogy, published by DAW Books between 1989 and 1992; some of her books and stories were released under the pseudonym “Jane Emerson”. Her prose success prompted Egan to relocate to Los Angeles, where she sought work in television. Starting out as a story editor on Early Edition in 1996, she soon joined its writing staff, and also contributed to Profiler.

Egan then became an executive story editor and writer for Dark Angel; the show also provided her with a co-producer credit on some episodes, and she would thereafter earn a variety of production credits on many of the programmes for which she wrote. Her other projects after the turn of the century included the Superman prequel Smallville, Tru Calling and House MD. In 2011, Egan wrote Rendition for the Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood, which the BBC had begun co-producing alongside the Starz network in the United States. She moved on to shows like Reign, Black Sails, Swamp Thing and The Good Doctor.