Dara Taylor

Dara Taylor
Taylor at the 2025 WonderCon
Background information
Genres	Film and television scores, electronic, jazz
Occupation	Film composer
Instruments	Piano, keyboards, synthesizer
Years active	2014-present
Website	www.darataylor.com//

Dara Taylor is an American composer for film and television scores. A Hollywood Music in Media Awards-nominated composer, she has composed music for a number of Independent films including thrillers, dramas, and comedies. A frequent collaborator with Christopher Lennertz, she has contributed additional music to ABC's Agent Carter, Galavant, and Lifetime’s Child Genius, as well as arrangements and score production for studio productions like Bad Moms, Baywatch, Smurfs: The Lost Village, and Sausage Party. In 2015, she was nominated for the Hollywood Music in Media Awards for her score for the Together Magic film Undetectable.^[1] In 2016, she was one of the composers asked to take part in Women in Film’s Women Composers in Media concert.^[2]

Taylor was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, but spent most of her childhood in Lockport, New York. She studied as a mezzo-soprano under Judith Kellock at Cornell University and sang in the Cornell University Chorus. Also at Cornell, she studied composition independently with Zachary Wadsworth and Steven Stucky. In 2009, she graduated cum laude with a Bachelor's in Music and Psychology. Taylor received a Masters of Music from New York University in 2011, where she studied Film Music Composition with Mark Suozzo. She resides in Los Angeles.

Filmography

Short films

• For Gunther's Eyes Only (2022)

Films

• Colewell (2019)
• Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)
• Binti (2021)
• The Tender Bar (2021)
• American Refugee (2021)
• Holiday in Santa Fe (2021)
• The Invitation (2022)
• The Noel Diary (2022)
• Strays (2023)
• Black Barbie: A Documentary (2023)
• Meet Me Next Christmas (2024)
• Straw (2025)
• The Dink (TBA)
• Scoob! Holiday Haunt (unreleased)

Television

• Trial by Media (2020)
• Bookmarks (2020)
• Bite Size Halloween (2020)
• Holiday in Santa Fe (2021)
• High Heel (2021)
• Little Ellen (2021-2022)
• The Boys Presents: Diabolical (2022)
• 37 Words (2022)
• Ironheart (2025)

References

1. "Hollywood Music in Media Awards: Sam Smith, Lady Gaga, Brian Wilson Among Nominees (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. 20 October 2015.
2. "BMI Supports Women Composers in Media as Proud Cosponsor of LA Concert". 8 November 2016.

External links

• Dara Taylor at IMDb