Hannah Bernall was born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the only child of two oil painters. At the early age of 10 she fell in love with the performing arts and spent the next several years studying acting. She attended a semi conservatory high school as a drama major and later went to Hunter College for creative writing and film.
Acting will always be her first love, a platform for expression that was naturally embraced and one that she often revisits. Writing on the other hand - in the form of essays, short stories and screenplays - was for years, something she did on her own time. It wasn’t until her mid-twenties that she decided to give up the ghost and begin to write in earnest, begin to call herself a writer. This is the medium that inspires, frightens and drives her the most. Her first feature screenplay, a female-driven psychological thriller, is currently in development.
When she’s not hunched over her dining room table with a paper and pen, you might find her barefoot in the kitchen, dancing to records with her musician husband. She might be on a road trip in her grandmother’s old mini van or camping in the woods of Northern California. Often, she’s curled up on the couch reading books and watching black and white movies.