Ann Druyan (/driːˈæn/ dree-ANN;[1]) is an American documentary producer and director specializing in the communication of science.

[6] Druyan's early interest in math and science was, in her word, "derailed" when a junior high-school teacher ridiculed a question she asked about the universality of π.

Druyan characterized her three years at New York University as "disastrous", and it was only after she left school without graduating that she discovered the pre-Socratic philosophers and began educating herself, thus leading to a renewed interest in science.

[2] As creative director, Druyan worked with a team to design a complex message, including music and images, for possible alien civilizations.

The segment also discussed Sagan's suggestion, in 1990, that Voyager 1 turn its cameras back towards Earth to take a series of photographs showing the planets of our solar system.

The shots, showing Earth from a distance of 3.7 billion miles as a small point of bluish light, became the basis for Sagan's famous "Pale Blue Dot" passage, first published in Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994).

The thirteen-part series covered a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.

Druyan wrote and produced the 1987 PBS NOVA episode "Confessions of a Weaponeer" on the life of President Eisenhower's Science Advisor George Kistiakowsky.

[15] Druyan and Soter also co-wrote The Search for Life: Are We Alone, narrated by Harrison Ford, which also debuted at the Hayden's Rose Center.

[21] In 2009, she distributed a series of podcasts called At Home in the Cosmos with Annie Druyan, in which she described her works, the life of her husband, Carl Sagan, and their marriage.

[28] Druyan co-wrote six New York Times bestsellers with Carl Sagan, including: Comet,[29] Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors,[30] and The Demon-Haunted World.

In February 2020, Druyan published Cosmos: Possible Worlds,[34] a companion volume to the television series of the same name, which premiered in March 2020.

[35] Druyan served as program director of the first solar-sail deep-space mission, Cosmos 1, launched on a Russian ICBM in 2005.

This included an arrest in June 1986, when she crossed a white painted line indicating the test site's boundary.

[47] In an interview with Joel Achenbach of The Washington Post, Druyan said that her early interest in science stemmed from a fascination with Karl Marx.

Achenbach commented that "She had, at the time, rather vaporous standards of evidence", a reference to her belief in the ancient astronauts of Erich von Däniken and the theories of Immanuel Velikovsky pertaining to the solar system.

Druyan and Sagan's working and resulting romantic relationship has been the subject of numerous treatments in popular culture, including the Radiolab episode "Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's Ultimate Mix Tape"[50] and a segment of the Comedy Central program Drunk History's episode "Space".