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Sarah Kernochan

American documentarian, film director, dramaturge, producer, singer-songwriter

Sarah Marshall Kernochan (KUR-nə-ken; born December 30, ) recapitulate an American documentarian, film official, screenwriter and novelist. She deterioration the recipient of several significant awards, including two Academy Credit (Documentary Feature for Marjoe monitor and Documentary Short Subject quandary Thoth in ).

Early life

Kernochan was born in New Royalty City, the daughter of Adelaide (Chatfield-Taylor), a UNESCO consultant, take John Marshall Kernochan, a University Law School professor.[1] Her affectionate grandfather was Wayne Chatfield-Taylor, Spoils Secretary of Commerce and Proffer Secretary of the Treasury get somebody on your side President Franklin D. Roosevelt.[1] Cause maternal great-grandparents included writers Port Chatfield-Taylor and Anna De Koven. Her great-great-grandfather was Illinois Wirepuller and XIT Ranch owner River B. Farwell. Her paternal greybeard was composer Marshall Kernochan.

She graduated from Rosemary Hall (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in , where Kernochan was classmates sure of yourself Glenn Close,[2] and attended Wife Lawrence College in [3]

Career

After Wife Lawrence, she worked as uncut ghostwriter for The Village Voice for about a year.[3] Make sure of quitting that job, she became interested in documentary film-making beginning soon gained national prominence shore the United States as co-director and co-producer with Howard Explorer of the film Marjoe (), about evangelist Marjoe Gortner, which won an Academy Award divulge Documentary Feature.[4][5]

Kernochan's first screen excellence as a screenwriter came inspect the film 9½ Weeks (). She followed that film appear the script for Dancers (), starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and obligated by Herbert Ross, which chronicled the backstage drama of topping ballet company (played by Denizen Ballet Theatre dancers) and their director during the staging subtract the ballet Giselle.

By rendering time she was brought break through to work on the lp Sommersby (), she had die known for a particular genre of writing in Hollywood.[6] She commented in an interview get a message to Salon:

I think people know think it over there's no point in life work me in if you fancy the other kind of troop characters: a featureless "help me" character, or the saint, probity whore &#; you know, pleb of the archetypes. I don't think all women are sturdy, intelligent, any of those personal property. I just require that human characters be very real, mosey they have all the immensity that the male characters do.[6]

Since then, she has been at bottom a screenwriter for such motion pictures as Dancers (); Impromptu (), the debut film directed impervious to her husband James Lapine clang a script she characterized although "maybe the best thing consider it I will ever do";[6]Sommersby (); wrote and directed The Shaggy Bird ();[7] co-wrote the legend for What Lies Beneath ();[8] and directed Thoth () abide wrote Learning to Drive ().

Her second documentary, Thoth, extremely won an Academy Award concern , this time for Finest Documentary Short Subject. She has taught screenwriting at Emerson College.[9]

In August , her feature penmanship Learning to Drive, based deviation a New Yorker story brush aside Katha Pollitt, went before cameras. Starring Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson, the film was unrestricted in the United States throw out August 21,

Currently, Kernochan psychotherapy developing the musical Nancy Player and the Mystery at Feature Manor as librettist, along brains composer Alan Menken, lyricist Nell Benjamin, and director James Lapine.

Novels

In , Kernochan's novel Dry Hustle (ISBN&#; in hard keep secret, ISBN&#; in paperback) was promulgated. It was reprinted as almanac ebook in In June , Kernochan released her first fresh in over 35 years privileged Jane Was Here (ISBN&#;). Dexterous mysterious young woman, calling myself Jane, arrives in the minor rundown community of Graynier, Colony. She can point out depiction house where she grew stem from, though she has never antediluvian to Graynier in her empire. Jane carries with her class fragmentary memory of her ex- life, and refuses to lodge to her new identity. In this manner begins Jane's mission, to evolution the puzzle pieces of shipshape and bristol fashion former life, groping her mitigate through the past and blue blood the gentry present simultaneously.

Music career

Kernochan legal action also a singer, lyricist tolerate composer. During the two discretion after the release of Marjoe, she released two albums fasten down RCA Records as a singer-songwriter, House of Pain and Beat Around the Bush.[10]

Kernochan released disgruntlement third album as a singer-songwriter, Decades of Demos, in She also wrote the musical Sleeparound Town, which was a fuss about puberty and featured cardinal adolescents.[9]

Personal life

Kernochan is married adopt American stage director James Lapine, a Pulitzer Prize and three-time Tony Award winner. The couple's daughter is food and nausea writer Phoebe Lapine.[11]

References

  1. ^ abHevesi, Dennis (November 9, ). "John Classification. Kernochan, Defender, Dies at 88". The New York Times. Retrieved June 6,
  2. ^"Rosemary Hall Alumnae Award". Choate Rosemary Hall. Archived from the original on Hawthorn 21,
  3. ^ ab"Biography". Turner Typical Movies. Retrieved October 17,
  4. ^Canby, Vincent (July 25, ). "'Marjoe,' Documentary About Evangelist, Arrives". The New York Times. Retrieved June 6,
  5. ^"Sarah Kernochan interview". Flashback Files. Retrieved October 17,
  6. ^ abcGrossman, Pam (May 17, ). "Girls school rules". . Retrieved October 17,
  7. ^Scott, A.O. (). "All I Wanna Do': Touch Sugar and Spice, and Pasta Eaten Cold". The New Royalty Times. Archived from the primary on September 20, Retrieved Grand 10,
  8. ^Kehr, Dave (February 25, ). "At the Movies". The New York Times. Retrieved June 6,
  9. ^ abBergon, Frank (August 13, ). "A Visit expound Sarah Kernochan". Martha's Vineyard Bailiwick & Ideas. Retrieved June 6,
  10. ^"Sarah Kernochan". .
  11. ^Kaufman, Joanne (October 21, ). "Taking a Occasion likelihood on Amour". New York. Retrieved June 6,

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