Mere Smith
American television script-writer
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Meredyth (Mere) Smith is an American television script-writer who has been described as a key writer of the series Angel.[1] She was also the executive story editor and script coordinator for 66 episodes from 1999 to 2003.
Mere Smith | |
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| Occupations | Television producer, television writer |
| Years active | 1999–present |
While living in Brooklyn, Smith was active on The Bronze, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer message board,[2] and wrote Buffy fan fiction, before attending a Bronze meet-up in Los Angeles in 1998.[3] Through a connection there, she obtained a position as assistant to a co-executive producer on the series Strange World.[3] She then became a script coordinator and later a writer of the Buffy spin-off series Angel.[2][3]
Among the episodes of Angel that Smith wrote, "Orpheus" was described by director Terrence O'Hara as "the most challenging episode",[4] and by producer Jeffrey Bell as "maybe […] her best episode, just really dense and complicated and really interesting.”[4]
She also wrote the episodes "Heroes of the Republic" and "Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus" for the HBO series Rome (2007),[5] 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,[6] and in 1993 won a National Merit Scholarship to study acting at Brown University,[7] where she contributed often to its theatre productions. She is originally from Houston, Texas.
