Biography
Dara Taylor is an American composer for film and television. She was born on 30 March 1987 in Poughkeepsie, New York, and raised in Lockport, New York. She studied music and psychology at Cornell University, graduating cum laude in 2009, and earned a Master of Music in film composition from New York University in 2011.
Taylor began her career contributing additional music and production to studio projects including Bad Moms (2016), Baywatch (2017) and Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017), often in collaboration with Christopher Lennertz. She has since composed original scores for films such as The Tender Bar (2021), The Invitation (2022), The Noel Diary (2022), Strays (2023) and The Dink (2026). She received a Hollywood Music in Media Award for Colewell (2019) and nominations for other scores.
