Education
Barnard College.
screenwriter television producer
Barnard College.
She is well known for her work on the American Broadcasting Company series Grey"s Anatomy and Ugly Betty, for The CW"s The Flash, and for Syfy"s Stephen King adaptation series Haven. After attending the all-girls Kent Place School in Summit, New Jersey and graduating from the women"s Barnard College in Manhattan, New York, Stanton worked as the national publicity coordinator in the New York office of the Public Broadcasting Service until 1991. lieutenant was also in 1998 that she broke into television
Her first job was on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which she followed with writing positions on Very Important Person and the science fiction series Earth: Final Conflict, Farscape, The Invisible Manitoba and Veritas: The Quest, in the latter two of which she also served as co-producer.
She wrote the teleplay for the made-for-television movie Deathlands before she was hired as a writer and producer for the medical drama series Grey"s Anatomy, for which she made her debut with the 2005 episodes "Who"s Zoomin" Who" and "Much Too Much". She moved from Grey"s Anatomy to the dramedy series Ugly Betty in 2007, writing the episode "Petra-Gate" and serving as a supervising producer for eight other episodes.
Stanton also worked on the Columbia Broadcasting System television series Moonlight, for which she wrote three episodes and served as first co-executive producer, then executive producer. Upon its cancellation in May 2008, she served as co-executive producer on the American Broadcasting Company series Castle, then as consulting producer on The CW"s The Vampire Diaries.
Stanton was a co-executive producer on the American Broadcasting Company series The Gates.
She served as showrunner for the Syfy series Haven over its five season run. She then joined the writing team of The CW superhero drama The Flash, where she also served as consulting producer for the last five episode of the first season. She co-wrote the teleplay for the season finale, along with showrunner Andrew Kreisberg, "Fast Enough".
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Stanton was promoted to co-showrunner/executive producer. Company-writing the teleplay, again with Kreisberg, for the premiere, "The Manitoba Who Saved Central City".
Next she co-penned the pivotal sixth episode, "Enter Zoom", with story editor Brooke Eikmeier. At the conclusion of 2015, Stanton departed the series for uncited reasons.
Her work on Grey"s Anatomy earned her a shared Primetime Emmy Award nomination with the other production crew members in the Outstanding Drama Series category and one Writers Guild of America Award and two nominations. Nominations in 2006 and 2007 for Dramatic Series, and a win in 2006 in the New Series category. She and the other Ugly Betty producers were nominated in 2007 for a Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Comedy Series category.