Taryn has been acting, singing, and dancing since the age of 5, bursting onto the stage as an orphan in Oliver. She found numerous outlets for her passion while growing up in Naperville, Il earning a variety of roles in school and community productions. Although performance was her first passion, it’s the environment that finally took her soul. Taryn searched for years to find the perfect combination of these two fields and finally discovered it in education. She started off giving elephant and penguin presentations to over 200 guests at the prestigious Brookfield Zoo in Chicago and finally found her way into science education.

Taryn took a 6-year respite from theatre to concentrate on her career as an educator. She has her bachelor’s in Environmental Management and her Master’s in Science and Environmental Education from Indiana University. She is a Pre-K to 3rd grade Lead Science Specialist at the independent Curtis School in Bel-Air and also taught improvisational acting to middle schoolers during her tenure at The Country School in Valley Village. Taryn thrives in movement roles, taking from her over 25 years of experience in ballet, tap, jazz, ballroom, modern dance and even yoga to make a character come alive. Some of her past roles have included the goddess, Ceres and a spirit in The Tempest; the reptile fairy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Isabeau Wayland in the animated film DarWest; Rooster in Annie; Widow Douglas in Tom and Huck, Real Rabbit #2 in The Velveteen Rabbit; Lead Dancer in Showboat; and Delilah Jones in The Little Luncheonette of Terror.

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