Women Behind the Scenes Spotlight: Sera Gamble

Sera Gamble

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is focused on TV writer and executive producer Sera Gamble.

Sera graduated from the UCLA School of Drama and Film, starring in stage productions of “Will Strip for Food” in Los Angeles and Dublin, Ireland as well as producing and starring in “Eve of Paradise”, which was written and directed by Raelle Tucker (Co-Executive Producer and Writer on True Blood). In addition, Sera starred in a short film called The Clay Man for which she wrote and was directed by Tucker.

In 2003 she appeared as a finalist on the second season of Project Greenlight, which started her Hollywood career. Two years later she was hired as a writer for the short-lived but critically acclaimed TV series Eyes which included cast members Tim Daly (Private Practice), Garcelle Beauvais (Franklin & Bash), Natalie Zea (Justified), Laura Leighton (Pretty Little Liars), Eric Mabius (Ugly Betty) and Rick Worthy (Battlestar Galactica).

A short time later she landed a job as a story editor for a little TV show called Supernatural (which will air its 8th season premiere tonight on The CW). Over the course of the next seven seasons, Sera worked her way up the ranks, holding positions as an executive story editor, writer, producer, supervising producer and eventually executive producer on one of the longest running shows on the network.

After being showrunner on Supernatural for two seasons, Sera chose to step down – handing the torch over to former Supernatural Executive Producer Jeremy Carver – in order to focus on developing other material, which includes a deal with ABC – alongside Greg Berlanti, the man behind Political Animals and Brothers & Sisters (just name two of his projects) – to develop a medical drama about a neurosurgeon who suffers a traumatic brain injury. As of right now, the deal is for a script only, but it is a script that Sera will write with Berlanti working as the Executive Producer as well as Melissa Kellner, working as Co-Executive Producer.

She is also writing a feature film adaptation of the manga series called Miki Falls which is being produced by Plan B Entertainment for Paramount Pictures.

Her work has not been confined to the small screen, though, as she has written essays and fiction and co-blogs “The Very Hot Jews”. Sera lives in Los Angeles.

You can learn more about Sera at her official website here.