Dara Taylor's job history and professional experience. Music composer and comedian
Dara Taylor's full list of credits, covering past and present projects, with roles, production companies and links through to each one where available.
Experience
2023
Role: Composer
Strays
Company: Universal PicturesRole: Composer
An abandoned dog teams up with other strays to get revenge on his former owner.
2023
Role: Special Guest
Post in Black
Company: LackToast EntertainmentRole: Special Guest
Since its inception, Post In Black has shared hard to find information and resources as well as give a much needed outlet and platform for post production professionals in the African American community. Post Production is constantly changing. As crews become smaller and opportunities become less accessible, we will share advice and experience from individuals that ha... Read all
2022
Role: Composer
The Invitation
Company: Screen GemsRole: Composer
A young woman is courted and swept off her feet, only to realize a gothic conspiracy is afoot.
2022
Role: Composer
The Noel Diary
Company: Change Up ProductionsRole: Composer
The story of a man who returns home on Christmas to settle his estranged mother's estate. Once there, he discovers a diary that may hold secrets to his own past and of a beautiful young woman on a mysterious journey of her own.
2022
Role: Composer
37 Words
Company: Trilogy FilmsRole: Composer
Chronicles the hard-fought battle to gain equal rights in education and athletics, examining issues women in sports still face today.
2022
Role: Composer
For Gunter's Eyes Only
Company: Illumination EntertainmentRole: Composer
Johnny and Gunter attend a hypnotist show in Redshore City where Gunter is hypnotized and believes he is a 007 type spy.
2021 - 2022
Role: Composer
Little Ellen
Company: A Very Good Production Inc.Role: Composer
The show explores the world through the eyes of a hilarious and unpredictable seven-year-old Ellen DeGeneres.
2022
Role: Additional Music
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Company: Burr! ProductionsRole: Additional Music
Moviestar Nick Cage is channeling his iconic characters as he's caught between a superfan and a CIA agent.
2022
Role: Composer
The Boys Presents: Diabolical
Company: Amazon StudiosRole: Composer
A collection of animated short stories that takes place inside The Boys universe.
2021
Role: Composer
The 90 Day Plan
Company: Mira Mira PicturesRole: Composer
A high school student obsessed with heist movies, must convince her best friend to help her rob a bank and save her Abuela (grandma) from getting evicted.
2021
Role: Composer
The Corner Store
Company: Darley Street DiscoRole: Composer
2021
Role: Composer
Binti
Company: Black Unicorn StudiosRole: Composer
Four Tanzanian women are unknowingly connected through their ability to persevere extreme hardships in the city of Dar-es-Salaam.
2021
Role: Composer
Ada Twist, Scientist
Company: Brown Bag FilmsRole: Composer
Ada Twist, a young scientist who will explore helping people through scientific discovery, collaboration and friendship.
2021
Role: Additional Music
Tom and Jerry
Company: Warner Bros. Pictures AnimationRole: Additional Music
A chaotic battle ensues between Jerry Mouse, who has taken refuge in the Royal Gate Hotel, and Tom Cat, who is hired to drive him away before the day of a big wedding arrives.
2021
Role: Composer
High Heel
Company: DreVision MediaRole: Composer
"High Heel" tells the story of a young woman running from her tormented past, who arrives in Memphis and enters a secret world of drugs, violence and deception when she's recruited into a ring of female drug runners who smuggle their product under the cover of a luxury women's footwear brand.
2021
Role: Composer
Holiday in Santa Fe
Company: BCD TravelRole: Composer
Sparks fly when a greeting card executive arrives in Santa Fe to acquire a tight-knit family company that creates ornaments inspired by Mexican Christmas traditions.
2021
Role: Composer
American Refugee
Company: Blumhouse TelevisionRole: Composer
Follows a family seeking shelter in their neighbor's bunker, when the American economy is in collapse, and the danger inside is greater than outside.
2021
Role: Composer
Family Time
Company: Moonlighting FilmsRole: Composer
A career woman with a family wonders what she must give up to have it all.
2021
Role: Composer
Curious George: Cape Ahoy
Company: Imagine EntertainmentRole: Composer
With help from a local fisherman, his niece and an adorable baby seal, George embarks on a quest in search of the long-lost shipwreck of legendary sea captain Trumpet Tooter.
2021
Role: Composer
Continuing A Legacy
Company: Graybayne Film/MediaRole: Composer
2021
Role: Composer
The Tender Bar
Company: Amazon StudiosRole: Composer
A boy growing up on Long Island seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle's bar.
2021
Role: Composer
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Company: Gloria Sanchez ProductionsRole: Composer
Lifelong friends Barb and Star embark on the adventure of a lifetime when they decide to leave their small Midwestern town for the first time - ever.
2021
Role: Composer
Pride
Company: FX ProductionsRole: Composer
A six-part documentary series chronicling the fight for LGBTQ civil rights in America.
2019 - 2020
Role: Additional Music
The Boys
Company: Amazon StudiosRole: Additional Music
A group of vigilantes set out to take down corrupt superheroes who abuse their superpowers.
2020
Role: Composer
Trial by Media
Company: Supper ClubRole: Composer
In our modern media landscape where real courtroom dramas have increasingly been transformed into a form of entertainment, this series reflects on some of the most dramatic and memorable trials in recent history.
2020
Role: Composer
Bookmarks
Company: Jesse Collins EntertainmentRole: Composer
Prominent Black celebrities and artists read children's books from Black authors that highlight the Black experience. Conversations center around themes of identity, respect, justice, and action.
2020
Role: Composer
Bite Size Halloween
Company: 20th Digital StudioRole: Composer
Created by exciting emerging filmmakers with 20th Digital Studio, these shorts take on topical issues and blend genres like horror, comedy, sci-fi and thriller.
2020
Role: Composer
Echo Boomers
Company: SpeakeasyRole: Composer
Based on a true story, five college graduates decide the best way to get back at the unfair economy and live the life they've always wanted is to steal from Chicago's richest and give to themselves.
2020
Role: Additional Music
The War with Grandpa
Company: Marro FilmsRole: Additional Music
Upset that he has to share the room he loves with his grandfather, Peter decides to declare war in an attempt to get it back.
2020
Role: Composer
Wildflower
Company: Buffalo 8 ProductionsRole: Composer
Christina Stahl is raising her parents.
2020
Role: Additional Music
Fire on the Hill
Company: ContendRole: Additional Music
On the edge of Compton, California- a place notorious for gang violence-a hidden band of inner-city cowboys has persevered since the 1800's. FIRE ON THE HILL is the story of the Black Cowboys of Compton and South Central LA, and their fight to preserve their culture by resurrecting an inner city horse stable that was mysteriously burnt to the ground.
2019
Role: Composer
Mino: A Diasporic Myth
Company: Black A.R.T. FilmworksRole: Composer
In the utopic haven of Biamara, a Coven of Black women who can conceive without men must consider denouncing one of their own when she chooses to defy the all female code and self produce a male child.
2019
Role: Composer
My Dad, Stephanie
Company: Mrs. Haese ProductionsRole: Composer
In 2013, before most people understood what it meant to be transgender, there was 71-year-old Phil, just a "regular" dad who finally revealed to family and friends that she is transgender, a secret she had kept hidden all of her life. Taken by surprise, her daughter and son-in-law immediately began filming, capturing Stephanie's life as a man, her transition and their... Read all
2019
Role: Composer
Uthandiwe Uyatshata
Company: RandifusionRole: Composer
2019
Role: Score Producer
UglyDolls
Company: STX EntertainmentRole: Score Producer
An animated adventure in which the free-spirited UglyDolls confront what it means to be different, struggle with a desire to be loved, and ultimately discover who you truly are is what matters most.
2019
Role: Composer
Turner Risk
Company: Phenomenon FilmworksRole: Composer
A topical yet timeless story about the parallel impacts of both bullying and friendship, Turner Risk focuses on a troubled young man who sets out to effectively reboot his world by clearing out all the negative forces in it.
2019
Role: Additional Music
Shaft
Company: Davis EntertainmentRole: Additional Music
JJ Shaft, a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, enlists his family's help to uncover the truth behind his best friend's untimely death.
2018 - 2019
Role: Score Producer
Lost in Space
Company: Legendary TelevisionRole: Score Producer
After crash-landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family fight against all odds to survive and escape, but they're surrounded by hidden dangers.
2019
Role: Composer
Are You from Dixie?
Company: Together Magic Film GroupRole: Composer
In this drama about race and social justice set in Louisiana, two brothers fight the racism and controversy caused by their involvement in a Confederate monument removal.
2019
Role: Additional Music
Tyler Perry's a Madea Family Funeral
Company: The Tyler Perry CompanyRole: Additional Music
A joyous family reunion becomes a hilarious nightmare as Madea and the crew travel to backwoods Georgia, where they find themselves unexpectedly planning a funeral that might unveil unsavory family secrets.
2019
Role: Composer
Boxed
Company: Magic Works ProductionRole: Composer
The terrifying daring escape of Henry "Box" Brown, who used creativity and courage to escape from slavery in 1849.
2019
Role: Composer
Colewell
Company: Washington Square FilmsRole: Composer
For thirty-five years, Nora has been the postmaster of Colewell, when the USPS decides to close her office, she must choose whether to relocate for a new position or face retirement in Colewell.
2019
Role: (score coordinator)
Jexi
Company: CBS FilmsRole: (score coordinator)
Phil makes top 10 pop lists at work. His only "friend" is cellphone Siri. His new phone includes AI helper Jexi, who improves/controls his social life.
2015 - 2018
Role: Composer
Supernatural
Company: Kripke EnterprisesRole: Composer
Two brothers follow their father's footsteps as hunters, fighting evil supernatural beings of many kinds, including monsters, demons, and gods that roam the earth.
2018
Role: Additional Music
The Happytime Murders
Company: STX EntertainmentRole: Additional Music
When the puppet cast of a '90s children's TV show begin to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye puppet takes on the case.
2018
Role: Score Producer
Acrimony
Company: Envision CastingRole: Score Producer
A faithful wife, tired of standing by her devious husband, is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed.
2018
Role: Additional Music
Incoming
Company: Benattar/Thomas ProductionsRole: Additional Music
The International Space Station is now a prison - the ultimate black site. No one's getting out. And no one knows it's there. But when the imprisoned terrorists take over the Station and turn it into a missile aimed at Moscow, only a shuttle pilot and a rookie doctor can stop them. Their task is complicated by a rogue CIA agent (Scott Adkins) who has his own plans for... Read all
2018
Role: Composer
Murder in the Cat House
Company: World Class AssassinRole: Composer
Exes. A shooting. A Dead Body. Not necessarily in that order.
2018
Role: Additional Music
Uncle Drew
Company: Summit EntertainmentRole: Additional Music
An anti-ageist comedy about a man's dream to win the Rucker Classic street ball tournament in Harlem.
2018
Role: Additional Music
My Husband's Double Life
Company: Headlong EntertainmentRole: Additional Music
A married woman discovers her husband is living a double life in Paris, jeopardizing not only her marriage but her life.
2018
Role: Additional Music
One Winter Weekend
Company: Hallmark ChannelRole: Additional Music
A recently dumped travel writer goes on a ski getaway with her best friend and they find themselves double booked with two eligible men. When they are snowed in, love ensues, as it always does.
2018
Role: Additional Music
The Sinister Surrogate
Company: Headlong EntertainmentRole: Additional Music
After finding the perfect surrogate to carry their child, the happy couple discovers that their baby girl is in danger of being kidnapped when they discover the lengths the surrogate is willing to go to maintain her hold on the child.
2018
Role: Additional Music
Nobody's Fool
Company: BET FilmsRole: Additional Music
A woman is released from prison and reunites with her sister. She soon discovers that her sister is in an online relationship with a man who may not be what he seems.
2017
Role: Score Producer
Baywatch
Company: Paramount PicturesRole: Score Producer
Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchannon butts heads with a brash new recruit, as they uncover a criminal plot that threatens the future of the bay.
2017
Role: Score Producer
Smurfs: The Lost Village
Company: Columbia PicturesRole: Score Producer
A mysterious map sets Smurfette and her friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty on an exciting race through the Forbidden Forest, leading to the discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history.
2017
Role: Score Producer
El Camino Christmas
Company: Goldenlight FilmsRole: Score Producer
Eric comes to El Camino looking for his unknown dad. He's harassed, hit and jailed by a drunk local cop, who later shoots at a liquor mart with Eric +4 inside. The sheriff and deputy then shoot up the place, answering each other's fire.
2017
Role: Additional Music
Furthest Witness
Company: Animus PicturesRole: Additional Music
Kyle Braddock has spent the last decade moving witnesses over the border to Mexico and has always avoided confrontation or suspicion until now. Not only has he been framed for kidnapping but there's a malevolent and unrelenting figure on his trail and he is falling in love with his latest passenger, who has a dark secret that completely goes against all of his moral b... Read all
2017
Role: Composer
Reel Nightmare
Company: Reel NightmareRole: Composer
Three beautiful, vengeful witches awakened by an ancient book, the Necronomicon, bring production of a film in their old family home to a deadly halt.
2017
Role: Score Producer
Pitch Perfect 3
Company: Brownstone Entertainment (II)Role: Score Producer
Following their win at the world championship, the now separated Bellas reunite for one last singing competition at an overseas USO tour, but face a group who uses both instruments and voices.
2017
Role: Additional Music
Black Site Delta
Company: Benattar/Thomas ProductionsRole: Additional Music
A group of military prisoners must fight off a terrorist attack on their prison which, unbeknownst to them, is a cover for a secret drone control facility.
2017
Role: Additional Music
Boo 2! A Madea Halloween
Company: The Tyler Perry CompanyRole: Additional Music
Madea, Bam, and Hattie venture to a haunted campground and the group must run for their lives when monsters, goblins, and the boogeyman are unleashed.
2017
Role: Orchestra and Arrangements
My Daughter Is Missing
Company: Headlong EntertainmentRole: Orchestra and Arrangements
Sara, a former hacker and now an Internet security specialist, has come to Belgrade to attend a conference on cyber crime. While she is there her daughter and a college friend are kidnapped by a Serbian human trafficking ring. Will Sara be able to save them before it's too late?
2017
Role: Composer
Adamantine
Company: Together Magic FilmsRole: Composer
In this gay fairytale set in rural Uzbekistan, a young shepherd longs to find his true love; but an evil mountain witch might stand in the way of his happily-ever-after.
2017
Role: Additional Music
A Bad Moms Christmas
Company: Huayi Brothers MediaRole: Additional Music
As their own mothers drop in unexpectedly, our three under-appreciated and over-burdened moms rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for mothers: Christmas.
2017
Role: Composer
La Oposicion
Company: FTVC ProductionsRole: Composer
LA OPOSICIÓN explores immigration policy under the new Trump administration. When officers for the Department of Homeland Security are ordered to aggressively monitor immigration targets in the USA, they start to question their own culpability in the new system.
2017
Role: Composer
Sunday in the Park with doG
Company: IMDb Answers: Help fill gaps in our dataRole: Composer
While enjoying a sandwich on a relaxing day in the park, a high-strung Guy has a chance meeting with a very zen, three-legged doG, who may or may not be... an existentialist.
2017
Role: Additional Music
Christmas Connection
Company: Autumn Mannitoba ProductionsRole: Additional Music
A flight attendant teams up with a newspaper columnist to investigate how her late-parents first met.
2016
Role: Scoring Assistant
Sausage Party
Company: Annapurna PicturesRole: Scoring Assistant
A sausage strives to discover the truth about his existence.
2016
Role: Scoring Assistant
The Boss
Company: Gary Sanchez ProductionsRole: Scoring Assistant
A titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.
2016
Role: Scoring Assistant
Ride Along 2
Company: Universal PicturesRole: Scoring Assistant
As his wedding day approaches, Ben heads to Miami with his soon-to-be brother-in-law James to bring down a drug dealer who's supplying the dealers of Atlanta with product.
2016
Role: Score Programmer
Galavant
Company: ABC SignatureRole: Score Programmer
A musical comedy adventure featuring a knight on a quest for love who helps a childish king to see the error of his ways.
2016
Role: Score Programmer
Agent Carter
Company: Fazekas & ButtersRole: Score Programmer
In 1946, Peggy Carter is relegated to secretarial duties in the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR). When Howard Stark is accused of treason, he secretly recruits Peggy to clear his name with the help of his butler, Edwin Jarvis.
2016
Role: Score Assistant
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Company: Gold Circle FilmsRole: Score Assistant
A Portokalos family secret brings the beloved characters back together for an even bigger and Greeker wedding.
2016
Role: Score Producer
Bad Moms
Company: STX EntertainmentRole: Score Producer
When three overworked and under-appreciated moms are pushed beyond their limits, they ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long overdue freedom, fun and comedic self-indulgence.
2016
Role: Scoring Assistant
Kevin Hart: What Now?
Company: Hartbeat ProductionsRole: Scoring Assistant
Comedian Kevin Hart performs in front of a crowd of 53,000 people at Philadelphia's outdoor venue, Lincoln Financial Field.
2016
Role: Arrangements and Programming
Kill Ratio
Company: Benattar/Thomas ProductionsRole: Arrangements and Programming
An attack on the new President of a fledgling Eastern European democracy pits an American covert operative against the country's ruthless military leader determined to seize control of the government.
2016
Role: Composer
Love (Minus Happiness)
Company: IMDb Answers: Help fill gaps in our dataRole: Composer
2016
Role: Composer
The Melancholy of Leftovers
Company: ABS Payroll & Production Accounting ServicesRole: Composer
When Megan's attempts to get an emotional reaction from her husband backfire, she decides her new path forward is too uncertain to walk alone.
2016
Role: Score Producer
Invisible
Company: 30 NinjasRole: Score Producer
A virtual reality series centering on a powerful New York family with the ability to control the world's economy by turning themselves invisible.
2015
Role: Additional Music Preparation
The Wedding Ringer
Company: LStar CapitalRole: Additional Music Preparation
Two weeks shy of his wedding, a socially awkward guy enters into a charade by hiring the owner of a company that provides best men for grooms in need.
2015
Role: Composer
Internal Graffiti
Company: Autira FilmsRole: Composer
There is life through art.
2015
Role: Composer
Undetectable
Company: Together Magic FilmsRole: Composer
A gay man living with HIV must confront the guilt tormenting him after betraying and infecting his terminal ex-lover.
2015
Role: Composer
Guide
Company: Together Magic FilmsRole: Composer
The life of a determined female Guide Dog Trainer suddenly changes course when she finds herself stranded after an earthquake.
2015
Role: Composer
Child Genius
Company: Shed Media USRole: Composer
Children who have been certified genius from across the nation come together in a competition for a $100,000 college scholarship.
2014
Role: Additional Music Preparation
Horrible Bosses 2
Company: BenderSpinkRole: Additional Music Preparation
Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.
2014
Role: Composer
Say It Wisely
Company: Porcovete PicturesRole: Composer
Boris finds out he might die soon and also has a problem with himself. He needs to somehow explain this to Loris, his husband. He tries hard and finally he succeeds in a creative way.
2014
Role: (TV )
The Nymph
Company: Armand Petri ProductionsRole: (TV )
A beautiful flesh-eating mermaid wants to be part of the human world at any cost.
2014
Role: Composer
The Do Over
Company: ChronoWorks ProductionsRole: Composer
A forty year old married couple celebrating their anniversary, learn that their marriage is a fake and decide to split up and live their own ways only to find out how important they are to each other.
2014
Role: Composer
Gutterball
Company: IMDb Answers: Help fill gaps in our dataRole: Composer
2013
Role: Composer
Tujunga Horror Story
Company: Armand Petri ProductionsRole: Composer
A young couple struggling with their relationship and a secret from their past seeks a new beginning by relocating to a restored 1920's home in the quiet suburb of Tujunga, California. Unbeknownst to them, their new home conceals dark secrets of its own.
2013
Role: Composer
Hollyhood Cinema
Company: IMDb Answers: Help fill gaps in our dataRole: Composer
The story of a mentor and his efforts to help a boy who wants to live vicariously through a home movie image of his jailed estranged father.
2013
Role: Composer
Jittery Santa
Company: Jittery MonkeysRole: Composer
Tis' holiday season it will be nothing but lumps of bloody coal from Santa
Shot of Whiskey
Company: Dive Bomb ProductionsRole: Composer
The Favor
Company: Magic Works ProductionRole: Composer
When the Angel of Death comes to collect a woman who is just not ready to go to heaven, things take a surprising turn.
Scoob!: Holiday Haunt
Company: Warner Bros.Role: Composer
To celebrate Scooby-Doo's first Christmas, 10-year-old Shaggy and the gang take him to a holiday-themed resort owned by Fred's Uncle Ned. The kids are forced to solve a 40-year-old mystery to save the resort from a ghostly haunting.
Meet Me Next Christmas
Company: Roberts Media.Role: Composer
In pursuit of a fairytale romance with the man of her dreams, Layla must race through New York City to get her hands on the hottest ticket in town: the sold out Pentatonix Christmas Eve Concert.
