Mere Smith

{{Infobox person | name = Mere Smith | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | othername = | birth_date =  | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = | occupation = Television producer, television writer | years_active = 1999–present | spouse = }}

'''Meredyth (Mere) Smith''' is an American television script-writer who has been described as a key writer of the series ''Angel''.<ref name="Masson">{{cite book |last1=Masson |first1=Cynthea |editor1-last=Wilcox |editor1-first=Rhonda V. |editor2-last=Cochran |editor2-first=Tanya R. |editor3-last=Masson |editor3-first=Cynthea |editor4-last=Lavery |editor4-first=David |title=Reading Joss Whedon |date=2014 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |isbn=9780815652830 |page=115 |chapter=Angel: An Introduction |jstor=j.ctt1j2n7v0}}</ref> She was also the executive story editor and script coordinator for 66 episodes from 1999 to 2003.

While living in Brooklyn, Smith was active on ''The Bronze'', the ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' message board,<ref name="Gatson" /> and wrote Buffy fan fiction, before attending a Bronze meet-up in Los Angeles in 1998.<ref name="Schulz" /> Through a connection there, she obtained a position as assistant to a co-executive producer on the series ''Strange World''.<ref name="Schulz" /> She then became a script coordinator and later a writer of the Buffy spin-off series ''Angel''.<ref name="Gatson">{{cite book |last1=Gatson |first1=Sarah N. |editor1-last=Denzin |editor1-first=Norman K. |editor2-last=Lincoln |editor2-first=Yvonna S. |title=Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials |date=2012 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=9781483307312 |page=258 |chapter=Chapter 8. The Methods, Politics, and Ethics of Representation in Online Ethnography}}</ref><ref name="Schulz">{{cite news |last1=Schulz |first1=Nancy |title=The E-Files: Mad for Mulder? Got a Jones for Buffy? Juiced by 'JAG'? In the Fanfiction Realm, You Can Make the Plot Quicken |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/2001/04/29/the-e-files/b2b70163-c36c-4f87-b521-b4ea4bede9aa/ |access-date=28 May 2025 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=April 28, 2001}}</ref>

Among the episodes of ''Angel'' that Smith wrote, "Orpheus" was described by director Terrence O'Hara as "''the'' most challenging episode",<ref name="Seibel">{{cite journal |last1=Seibel |first1=Svetlana |title="There Will Be Another Song for Me": The Significance of the Orpheus Myth in ''Angel'' 's "Orpheus" |journal=Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies |date=Fall 2019 |volume=17 |issue=2 |page=49 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337840521 |access-date=27 May 2025}}</ref> and by producer Jeffrey Bell as "maybe […] her best episode, just really dense and complicated and really interesting.”<ref name="Seibel" />

She also wrote the episodes "Heroes of the Republic" and "Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus" for the HBO series ''Rome'' (2007),<ref name="Cyrino">{{cite book |editor1-last=Cyrino |editor1-first=Monica Silveira |title=Rome Season Two |date=2015 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=9781474400282 |page=xvii |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kkAkDQAAQBAJ |access-date=27 May 2025}}</ref> as well as episodes of ''Tarzan'' (2003), ''Burn Notice'' (2007), ''Jonny Zero'', and ''The Nine Lives of Chloe King'' (2011).

Smith attended Estero High School, Florida,<ref name="Yount">{{cite news |last1=Yount |first1=Dan |title=Estero High's Smith named National Merit semifinalist |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-naples-daily-news-estero-highs-smit/173305345/ |access-date=28 May 2025 |work=The Naples Daily News |date=September 29, 1992 |location=Naples, Florida |page=1}}</ref> and in 1993 won a National Merit Scholarship to study acting at Brown University,<ref name="Perl">{{cite news |last1=Perl |first1=Larry |title=Two Lee seniors win prestigious (and much-needed) scholarships |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/news-press-two-lee-seniors-win-prestigio/173305440/ |access-date=28 May 2025 |work=News-Press |date=May 8, 1993 |location=Fort Myers, Florida |page=17}}</ref> where she contributed often to its theatre productions. She is originally from Houston, Texas.

==Angel episodes== {{Main|List of Angel episodes}} *2.04 "Untouched"<ref name="Comeford & Burnett">{{cite book |last1=Comeford |first1=AmiJo |last2=Burnett |first2=Tamy |title=The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series |date=2014 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786457717 |pages=64, 82, 83, 127, 157 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=umkolQ2IEX4C |access-date=28 May 2025}}</ref> *2.11 "Redefinition" *2.12 "Blood Money"<ref name="Comeford & Burnett" /> *2.20 "Over the Rainbow"<ref name="Comeford & Burnett" /> *3.05 "Fredless"<ref name="Comeford & Burnett" /><ref name="Holder Ruditis et al">{{cite book |last1=Holder |first1=Nancy |last2=Ruditis |first2=Paul |last3=Mariotte |first3=Jeff |last4=Gallagher |first4=Diana G. |last5=Hart |first5=Maryelizabeth |title=Angel The Casefiles · Volume 2 |date=2002 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=9780689871450 |pages=75, 105, 127, 203, 216, 228 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fh7E6VV_RTwC |access-date=28 May 2025}}</ref> *3.11 "Birthday"<ref name="Holder Ruditis et al" /> *3.15 "Loyalty"<ref name="Comeford & Burnett" /><ref name="Holder Ruditis et al" /> *4.02 "Ground State" *4.09 "Long Day's Journey"<ref name="Holder Ruditis et al" /> *4.12 "Calvary"<ref name="Comeford & Burnett" /><ref name="Holder Ruditis et al" /> *4.15 "Orpheus"<ref name="Holder Ruditis et al" />

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0809327}} *[http://evilgalproductions.com/ Evil Gal Productions]

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