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. 

Her other credits include the Amazon series The Boys: Diabolical, the Lionsgate comedy Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar starring Kristen Wiig and Jamie Dornan which she co-scored with Christopher Lennertz, the Warner Brothers animated feature Scoob! Holiday Haunt, Dawn Porter documentaries 37 Words and Power of the Dream, the action crime drama Echo Boomers starring Michael Shannon, the Netflix series Bookmarks, the Universal/1440 animated feature Curious George: Cape Ahoy, the Netflix docu-series Trial By Media, the FX series Pride, and the Karen Allen-starred drama Colewell, for which she won a 2019 Hollywood Music in Media award. 

Dara is a proud Governor of the Recording Academy’s LA Chapter, a member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists’s Early Career Committee, and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Television Academy, Composers Diversity Collective, and Alliance of Women Film Composers.