{{Short description|American screenwriter and producer}} {{Infobox person | name = Ashley Gable | caption = | birth_date = | birth_name = | birth_place = United States | occupation = {{Flat list| * Screenwriter * producer}} | years_active = 1996–present }} '''Ashley Gable''' is an American screenwriter and producer who has worked on a variety of well-known television series including ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and ''Person of Interest''. She was an executive producer on the CBS crime drama ''The Mentalist'' for its first four seasons.
==Career== Gable's television career began in 1996 when she was recruited onto the writing staff of the first season of Joss Whedon's ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. She (and her then-writing partner Thomas A. Swyden) wrote two of the twelve episodes for the season.
Gable has worked on a number of other shows as a writer and producer, including ''The Invisible Man'', ''Family Law'', ''The Division'', ''Strong Medicine'', ''Crossing Jordan'', ''New Amsterdam'' and ''Vegas''. In 2008 she was hired to work on ''The Mentalist'' as a co-executive producer under creator Bruno Heller and became an executive producer.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ashley Gable: Biography, Latest News & Videos |url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/ashley-gable/221601 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110508072252/https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/ashley-gable/221601/ |archive-date=May 8, 2011 |accessdate=April 2, 2011 |work=TV Guide}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=August 2023}} She left that show after four seasons and subsequently served as co-executive producer on the CBS drama series ''Person of Interest''.
In 2019, Gable joined other WGA members in firing her agents as part of the Guild's stand against the ATA after the two sides were unable to come to an agreement on a new "Code of Conduct" that addressed the practice of packaging.<ref>{{cite web |last=Robb |first=David |date=22 April 2019 |title=WGA: More Than 7,000 Writers Have Fired Their Agents |url=https://deadline.com/2019/04/writers-guild-agents-fired-total-hollywood-fight-packaging-1202599639/ |access-date=27 August 2023 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}</ref>
Upon discovering that she was earning two-thirds of what her fellow male executive producers were making, Gable became vocal in the #NotWorthLess social media movement, which called for the end to payment inequities between white, male Hollywood writers and producers, and their female, non-white counterparts.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Rothman|first=Michael|title=#NotWorthLess highlights the battle for equality behind the scenes in Hollywood|url=https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/notworthless-highlights-battle-equality-scenes-hollywood-65714106/|date=19 September 2019|website=Good Morning America}}</ref>
In November of 2022, Gable, a board member of the Writers Guild of America, was named as a member of the committee that will negotiate the guild’s contracts amidst the threat of a writers strike. <ref>{{Cite news|last=Robb|first=David|title=WGA Sets Contract Negotiating Committee As Potential Writers Strike Looms |url=https://deadline.com/2022/11/writers-guild-contract-negotiating-committee-writers-strike-fears-1235165788/|date=7 November 2022|website=Deadline}}</ref>
==Filmography== ===Film=== {| class="wikitable" !Year !Title !Role !Note |- |2024 |''The Bad Guardian'' |Writer | |} ===Television=== ====''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' episodes==== * 1.08 "I, Robot... You, Jane" * 1.11 "Out of Mind, Out of Sight"
====''The Mentalist'' episodes==== * 1.03 "Red Tide" * 1.09 "Flame Red" * 1.18 "Russet Potatoes" * 2.03 "Red Badge" * 2.08 "His Red Right Hand" * 2.19 "Blood Money" * 3.02 "Cackle-Bladder Blood" * 3.07 "Red Hot" * 3.23 "Strawberries and Cream (Part 1)" * 4.03 "Pretty Red Balloon" * 4.11 "Always Bet on Red" * 4.22 "So Long, And Thanks for All the Red Snapper"
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0300081}}
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