Interview with Dara Taylor

Dara Taylor has emerged as a fresh voice in the world of scoring music to picture as evidenced by her NAACP Image Award-Nominated score to Marvel Studios Ironheart, produced by Ryan Coogler, and Amazon Studios’s film The Tender Bar, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker George Clooney.

She recently scored the AppleTV+ Ben Stiller-produced comedy The Dink, the Taraji P. Henson drama Straw, Netflix’s Meet Me Next Christmas for which she received a 2025 SCL Award Nomination and 2025 BMI Award, Netflix and Shondaland’s Black Barbie, Universal Pictures’s comedy Strays starring Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx, Sony Pictures/Screen Gems’ The Invitation for which she received a 2023 SCL Award Nomination, and Netflix’s The Noel Diary directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Charles Shyer.