Krista Vernoff

Krista Vernoff served as the head writer and as an executive producer of Grey's Anatomy until the end of season seven. She also wrote several episodes of both Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice. On April 28, 2017, she announced that she'd be returning to Grey's Anatomy for season fourteen as showrunner and writer. In season fifteen, she directed her first episode. She is also the new showrunner for Station 19.

Biography

Vernoff originally intended to be an actor, as she trained to be one in the Boston University College of Fine Arts, but she later chose writing as her career.

Career

Producer

• Station 19 (2020-)
• Grey's Anatomy (2005-2011, 2017-)
• Shameless (2013-2017)
• Divorce: The Greatest Hits (short) (2016)
• Stars (short) (2015)
• Studio City (2015)
• Songbyrd (2014)
• Rita (2013)
• Private Practice (2011-2013)
• Grace (2011)
• Grey's Anatomy: Come Rain or Shine (2007)
• Grey's Anatomy: Every Moment Counts (2007)
• Grey's Anatomy: Complications of the Heart (2006)
• Introducing Lennie Rose (2006)
• Grey's Anatomy: Under Pressure (2006)
• Grey's Anatomy: Straight to the Heart (2006)
• Wonderfalls (2004)
• Charmed (2002-2003)

Writer

• Station 19 (2020-)
• Grey's Anatomy (2005-2011, 2017-)
• Shameless (2013-2017)
• Divorce: The Greatest Hits (short) (2016)
• Stars (short) (2015)
• Studio City (2015)
• Songbyrd (2014)
• Rita (2013)
• Grace (2011)
• Private Practice (2009-2011)
• Introducing Lennie Rose (2006)
• Wonderfalls (2004)
• Charmed (2000-2003)
• Time of Your Life (2000)
• Law & Order (1999)

Director

• Grey's Anatomy (2018)
• Stars (short) (2015)

Written Episodes

Grey's Anatomy

Season 1

• If Tomorrow Never Comes

Season 2

• Make Me Lose Control
• Into You Like a Train
• Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer
• Yesterday (co-written with Mimi Schmir)

Season 3

• I Am a Tree
• Six Days, Part 1
• Six Days, Part 2

Season 4

• Haunt You Every Day
• Crash Into Me, Part 1 (co-written with Shonda Rhimes)
• Crash Into Me, Part 2  (co-written with Shonda Rhimes)

Season 5

• Here Comes the Flood
• No Good at Saying Sorry (One More Chance)

Season 6

• Good Mourning
• Goodbye
• Holidaze

Season 7

• With You I'm Born Again
• Disarm

Season 14

• Break Down the House
• Get Off on the Pain
• Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story
• All of Me

Season 15

• With a Wonder and a Wild Desire
• Jump Into the Fog

Season 16

• Nothing Left to Cling To

Private Practice

Season 2

• Ex-Life (co-written with Jon Cowan, Robert Rovner and Debora Cahn)

Season 3

• Another Second Chance (co-written with Kathy McCormick)

Season 4

• Home Again

Season 5

• If I Hadn't Forgotten...

Station 19

Season 3

• 3.01

Directed Episodes

Grey's Anatomy

Season 15

• Anybody Have a Map?

Notes and Trivia

• She is credited with the coinage of the phrase Seriously in the Grey's Anatomy writers' room.
• Her sister, Kaili Vernoff, played Naomi Markham in season fourteen of Grey's Anatomy.

External Links

• Krista Vernoff on Wikipedia
• Krista Vernoff on IMDb
• Krista Vernoff on Twitter