Krista Vernoff (born October 24, 1971)[1][2] is an American television screenwriter, executive producer and director.
Vernoff earned three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Grey's Anatomy; two as a producer for the show's Best Drama Series nominations in 2006 and 2007 which were won and one personal Emmy nomination in 2006 for Best Drama Writing for her episode “Into You Like a Train”, an episode that was highly acclaimed years after its initial airing and hailed as the show's best single episode by The A.V.
[6] In 2017, Shonda Rhimes enlisted Vernoff to return to Grey's for its fourteenth season with complete creative control, after she signed a deal to leave ABC for Netflix and Stacy McKee, the previous showrunner, left to run its spin-off Station 19.
She paid tribute to the school in a season 7 episode of Grey's Anatomy, using the alma mater's song.
She has worked on a number of American television shows, including the program Charmed, from 2000 to 2004.
[16][17] Vernoff is best known for her time as a member of the creative team at the popular drama Grey's Anatomy.
Series creator Shonda Rhimes says that Vernoff used it frequently in the writer's room, and "said correctly, it can convey sarcasm, dismay, disbelief, a sense of moral and ethical superiority, and gentle chastising punishment, all at once.
In May 2007, ABC announced that Vernoff would become showrunner and head writer of Grey's Anatomy effective fall 2007.
Marinis has been involved with Grey’s Anatomy since season 3, progressing from writer's assistant to medical researcher, amongst others, and became an executive producer in 2019.
[22] Vernoff is also a playwright; a production of her play "Me, My Guitar, and Don Henley" opened in October 2006 in an off-Broadway theater.