Taryn Stickrath-Hutt is a filmmaker, queer woman, and exhausted mother with experience in costuming, theme park design, children's theater, and education. She met her longtime collaborator, Dan Lund (veteran Disney animator), while working at Walt Disney Imagineering where she worked on award-winning attraction design teams. She earned a Themed Entertainment Association award for her work on Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway in Orlando and provided creative coordination on multiple global projects. Aside from film, Taryn is a musician, painter, and writes prose. Her personal essay about being a queer Buddhist, "The Immeasurable Beauty of Queerness," can be found at LionsRoar.com. She was raised in Anaheim and now lives in Chicago, though her heart will always belong to Los Angeles.