Jessica

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Lore & Background

Gao joined the writing room for the third season of *Rick and Morty*, acting as story editor on six episodes and writing the episode "Pickle Rick." For that episode, she won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program at the 2018 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. While working on the show, Gao and the other female writers were subject to sexual harassment by members of the fanbase who were upset about the show hiring women in the writing room. Gao and *Rick and Morty* co-creator Dan Harmon collaborated on a podcast series entitled "Whiting Wongs" that discussed race and privilege in Hollywood. Gao left *Rick and Morty* after the third season to develop a sitcom for ABC, which landed a pilot episode order in 2019, directed by Jude Weng. The show revolved around a Chinese-American woman's relationship with her family. ABC passed on the sitcom, but the series was being shopped to other networks. In July 2019, she was chosen to write the script for the upcoming movie based on *Sweet Valley High*. In November 2019, she was hired as the lead writer for the Disney+ show *She-Hulk: Attorney at Law*.

In Their Own Story

After winning the Nickelodeon Writers Fellowship in 2006, Gao began her career writing for the network's shows like *The Mighty B!*, *Back at the Barnyard*, *Big Time Rush* and *Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness*, before leaving to freelance on other shows such as Adult Swim's *Robot Chicken*, Cartoon Network's *The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange*, and Disney XD's *Lab Rats*. Gao has also written for HBO's *Silicon Valley*, the French series *Zip Zip*, Seeso/Pluto TV's *Bajillion Dollar Propertie$*, and Comedy Central's *Corporate*. She also wrote and co-executive produced the second season of the show *Take My Wife*.

Reader's Guide

Jessica Gao is an American television writer and producer. She was creator and head writer of the TV series *She-Hulk: Attorney at Law*. She worked on the third season of *Rick and Morty*, writing the episode "Pickle Rick" and co-creating the recurring character of Dr. Wong. She wrote for *Silicon Valley*, *Robot Chicken*, *The Mighty B!*, *Back at the Barnyard*, *Star Wars: Detours*, and *Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness*. She won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program at the 2018 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for writing "Pickle Rick." She is engaged to Truck Torrence, who is known for creating emojis of Marvel characters under the name 100 Soft.

Did You Know?

• Jessica Gao won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program at the 2018 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for writing the episode 'Pickle Rick'.
• She co-created the recurring character of Dr. Wong on *Rick and Morty*.
• Gao and *Rick and Morty* co-creator Dan Harmon collaborated on a podcast series entitled 'Whiting Wongs' that discussed race and privilege in Hollywood.
• While working on *Rick and Morty*, Gao and the other female writers were subject to sexual harassment by members of the fanbase upset about the show hiring women in the writing room.
• She is engaged to Truck Torrence, who is known for creating emojis of Marvel characters under the name 100 Soft.