Sarah Kernochan
| Sarah Kernochan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Sarah Marshall Kernochan December 30, 1947 New York City |
| Occupation | Documentarian, film director, screenwriter, producer, singer-songwriter |
| Years active | 1972–present |
| Spouse(s) | James Lapine |
| Children | Phoebe |
| Website | sarahkernochan |
Sarah Marshall Kernochan (IPA: Kərnəxæn; born December 30, 1947) is an American documentarian, film director, screenwriter and producer.
Kernochan was born in New York City, the daughter of Adelaide (Chatfield-Taylor), an international organization consultant, and John Marshall Kernochan, a law professor. Her maternal grandfather was Wayne Chatfield-Taylor, Under Secretary of Commerce and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
After graduating in 1965 from Rosemary Hall (now Choate Rosemary Hall), where Kernochan was a classmate of Glenn Close, and in 1968 from Sarah Lawrence College, she worked as a ghostwriter for The Village Voice for about a year. After quitting that job, she became interested in documentary filmmaking and soon gained national prominence in the United States as co-director and co-producer with Howard Smith of the 1972 film Marjoe (about evangelist Marjoe Gortner), which won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature.
During the next two years, she released two albums on RCA Records as a singer-songwriter, House of Pain and Beat Around the Bush.
In 1977 Kernochan's novel Dry Hustle ( in hard cover, in paperback) was published. It was reprinted as an ebook in 2011.
Kernochan's first screen credit as a screenwriter came with the 1986 film 9½ Weeks. She followed that film with the script for Dancers (1987), starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and directed by Herbert Ross, which chronicled the backstage drama of a ballet company (played by American Ballet Theatre dancers) and their director during the staging of the ballet Giselle.
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